Abner Goddard – owner of lock-up
garages (Source: Petrol Licence Records). Although the
address is No 4 Victoria Street, this business and its
successors really encompass No 6 next door (which becomes
a petrol filling station) and the large mass of land
to the rear. The lock-up garages themselves, which are
rented out, are on this land which is now a housing
development.
The Goddard family has considerable business interests
in the town. Originally bicycle makers and retailers
operating out of Nos
60-62 High Street and the yard to the rear of it
which runs through to
9-11 Victoria Street, they later diversify into
motor services.
1958 Boshier Sales & Service –
a branch of the motor trading company, Boshier of Norwich
Ltd. (SSW)
1963 Samkin – (PLR)
1967 SGW Ladbroke Samkin Southwold (Trading
as Southwold Service Station) – (PLR)
1968 D J Snelling - Southwold Service
Station - (PLR)
1970 D J Snelling - Southwold Service
Station - (PLR)
1980s
Adnams Distribution Centre
Until
2006 Adnams Distribution Centre
Present
New housing development and Adnams Cellar and Kitchen
shop occupying what has been newly named Drayman Square.
Do you have any memories or records about this address? Can you correct
any of our information or fill in any of our blanks? If so, please email
Barry Tolfree
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SOURCES: BSD - Bernard Segrave-Daly
BCS = Bygones & Characters of Southwold by Barrett Jenkins
C = Census
CP = Cinema Programme 1958
CSP = Coronation Souvenir Programme 1953
G = Gales Trade Directory
GRO = General Register Office
K = Kelly's Directory
LM = Local memory
M = James Maggs' Southwold Diary 1818-1876
MCG = Methodist Church Guide 1930
NA = National Archives
PP = Pantomime Programme 1933
PLR = Petrol Licence Records
POD = Post Office Directory
PPP = Pier Pavilion Programme 1924, 1926
RCE = Rotary Club Exhibition 1969
SCM = Southwold Catholic Magazine 1923
SCTG = Southwold Corporation Tourist Guide
SER = Southwold Electoral Register
SFP = Southwold Scouts Fete Programme 1947
SG = Southwold Guide
SGCH = Southwold Golf Club Handbook
SLHR = Southwold Local History Recorder 1980s 1990s (Mrs R. McDermot)
SMHS = Southwold Museum & Historical Society
SN = Southwold & Neighbourhood 1903
SPM = Southwold Parish Magazine 1895 -1954
SR = Southwold Recorder 1927, 1932, 1934, 1935
SRB = Southwold Rate Book
SRT = Southwold Railway Timetable 1915
SSAS = Southwold Sea Angling Society Handbook 1909
SST = Southwold Summer Theatre Programmes
SSW = Southwold Shopping Week Programme, June/July 1922
STG = Southwold Town Guide 1930
SVL = Southwold Visitors List 1907, 1930
SVCP = Southwold Victory Celebration Programme 1946
SWCG = Southwold Wesleyan Church Guide
TTR = 'The Town Revisited' - Portraits of Southwold by Stephen Wolfenden
2000
TTT = ''To The Town' - Portraits of Southwold by Stephen Wolfenden 1988
W = White’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk 1874
Note
on dates Unless
otherwise stated, dates given do not indicate the years in which the business
started or finished but those for which there is firm evidence that
it was trading at this address. Sources in brackets; key at bottom of page.
No 4 is on the left above.
The Gift shop, 'Serendipity' (No 6) was part of the business.
Petrol pumps were situated to its side where the black wooden
fence is.
Above: Two adverts for Boshier
in 'Southwold Shopping Week 1958
Below can be seen what is now called 'Drayman's Yard' with
the new Adnams' store on the right. This yard previously
gave access to the Goddard lock-up garages, and more recently,
to the Adnams Distribution Centre.
