1874
Eaton Womack Moore - Post Office, Grocer, Draper, Auctioneer, House Agent, Valuer and Agent for the Royal Fire Insurance Company. (W 1874) Whites' Suffolk Directory specifies only the Market Place for Eaton Moore without giving a number. However the 1887 letterhead reproduced right, though not giving a number, clearly locates it on the corner of Market Place and East Street.

There is some uncertainty about when Eaton Moore actually took over as Post and Telegraph Master. It may be that, in the early 1870s No 25 Market Place was acting only as a sub-post office but took over as Southwold's main post office (from its previous location round the corner at No 12 Queen Street) in 1877 with the death of C M Marsden and the resignathion of his niece, Post Mistress Matilda Drewell).

The Census for 1871 records that Eaton Moore resided in York while the 1881 census indicates that he has now moved to Southwold as a 'grocer & draper, auctioneer and sub-postmaster' based at No 1 Market Place. Perhaps this is a confusion based on the fact that 1 East Street and 25 Market Place are adjoining). See No 25 Market Place for more. However, describing him as 'sub-postmaster' in 1881 is odd. Verification of dates and places required, please.

By 1896 (and probably in 1892) he has moved the Post Office and his other business interests to No 80 High Street (K1896) and he becomes Mayor of Southwold in 1899 at the age of 52, holding that office until 1902.

1892, 1895
Henry Moss - Groceries and Provisions and Drapery (Photo record, right 1892, SPM 1895). The Henry Moss emporium incorporates No 25 Market Place as well as 1 & 3 East Street and, in fact, the main entrance to the shop is in the Market Place at this time.

1916
Henry Moss (Southwold Ltd) - General Furnishing (K 1916). By now, Moss has expanded his drapery business by taking over the SW Reynolds Grocery & Drapery business at No 10 Market Place across the Street. He even has a pneumatic cash conveyor tube installed beneath the road between his two shops. When a sale is made at No 10 Market Place, the money is placed in a capsule, fired through the tube to the cashier who sits at her station just inside the door of No 1 - 3 East Street. A receipt is then fired back to the customer across the road.

1922
Henry Moss (Southwold Ltd), General Furnishings & Drapers (SSW 1922). See advertisement, right.

1924
Griffin & Co have now taken over the Moss business both here and at No 10 Market Place (K 1924) selling drapery, carpets and rugs.

1937
Griffin & Co (K 1937)

1939
Griffin & Co (SRB 1939)

1940
The Southwold Rates Book shows that Griffin & Co, like many Southwold businesses, cease trading at the outset of war. The premises remain closed for the next several years.

1946
Crowson & Sons reopen both East Street and Market Place shops, continuing the tradition of drapery and furnishings (SRB 1947, 1948. SPM 1946,1947)

1954
Crowson & Sons (SPM 1954)
During this period, it appears that Crowson's divest themselves of both No 25 Market Place and 1-3 East Street and concentrate their trading activities on No 10 Market Place.

1958
'Avril' - Hounsfield & Johnson have taken over the East Street/Market Place store as a Ladies' Outfitter (CP 1958)

'Avril' - Hounsfield & Johnson - Ladies' Outfitter

'Avril' - Hounsfield & Johnson - Ladies' Outfitter

'Avril' - Hounsfield & Johnson - Ladies' Outfitter

2003
'Avril' Ladies' Outfitter. After 45 years of running this popular store Douglas & Joy Johnson retire on Christmas Eve.

The business and premises are taken over on the same day by Vanessa Collen & Clare Atkins, 'Collen & Clare' as a women's and men's fashion boutique.