No 46 Victoria Street
 

1908
Charles Tyrell, Grocer (K 1908)

 
1916
Charles Tyrell, Grocer (K 1916)
 
1924
Thomas Goldsmith, Fruiterer (K 1924). Thomas has moved his business here from Nos 2 and 4 Stradbroke Road. Thomas's Grandson, John 'Wiggy' Goldsmith, was born at this address. He remembers: "My Grandfather used to have a stable at the back where he kept his horse. He used to hawk fish and fruit around town."
 

1933
Septimus Champ, General Store (K 1933)
It is, in fact, Mrs Champ who mainly runs the store. Mr Champ works as a postman and, before the outbreak of war in 1939, he also works as a car-park attendant at the Pier car park. The Champs are on record as having previously kept shops at 55-57 High Street. (K 1908 ,1916)

1942
Septimus Champ, General Store.
 





 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

Now residential

   

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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 46 today. The two adjacent ground floor windows suggest that this was the original shop display window.

Thomas and Matilda Goldsmith with their horse, Toby and one of their grandsons, possibly Douglas, (son of their daughter, Winifred Mary and Fred Dorling) outside their Victoria Street shop in the late 1920s.
With thanks to Alan Goldsmith of Chicago for the snapshot and Alan Goldsmith of Surrey for help with identification.
Click the picture to enlarge