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Last Updated 1st May 2026
Haddon Road Shops
Numbers 4 to 24
By Helen Morgan
First Published 01/05/2026
Last Updated 01/05/2026
A story of two halves
Residents recalled the shops being built in the early 1960s. This coincided with the new housing estates being built, further away from the village centre on Finney Lane, for the ever increasing population. In September 1964, the G.P.O. turned down the Ratepayer’s request for sub-post office facilities, letter box and telephone kiosk on Haddon Road. The reason given was that the development needed to be further advanced. I am therefore assuming that the shops were still not ready then.
I could find no trace of any shops in trade directories until 1965. The post box did not arrive until 1972 and there was still no sub-post office at the shops.
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“We moved to a new build at the top end of Queensway in November 1962. Shops were built around that time; we used to play on the building site at the weekends when the builders weren’t there. I remember the off licence on the end being just a shell. Before the windows were put in, we used to go up the stairs and jump out of the front window and land on a huge mound of sand.”
- Melanie Lightfoot, Facebook 2026
“Yes, I reckon they were built around 1962.”
- Tricia Boyd, Facebook 2026
“I don’t think the shops were built when our parents moved into Longnor Road in 1960, but I remember my Mum and her friend using the launderette once it opened - so 1962 seems correct. The East Avenue part of the estate was not built in 1960 as we played on the fields behind our house and had a bonfire there in November 1960, but I don’t think it was possible - because of houses being built, by November 1961.”
- Susan Bishop, Facebook 2026
Once built, the shops were numbered 4-24 and they had residential flats above.
4 Haddon Road
By March 1965 Victoria Wine was there.
Fig. 1 Victoria Wine advert 23.12.1965
Stockport County Express
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However, by December 1968 this had become Haddon Wine Store.
Fig. 2 Haddon Wine Stores advert
Contact Magazine December 1968
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It was still that business in June 1970.
Fig. 3 Haddon Wine Stores advert
Heald Green Herald June 1970
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“The wine shop where my mum Brenda worked in the 1970s.”
- Gail Tansey, Facebook 2021
“My mum worked part time at the off licence and the owners lived upstairs in the flat. Their names were Eddie and Eunice but I can’t remember their surname. I would guess that the time Eddie and Eunice were there was around the early 70’s. My mum worked early evening for them. I’ll ask around and see if my mum’s friend can remember anything more. Between us (but not 100% sure) we came up with Keegan and my mum’s friend said it was mid 70’s. There was also a standalone off-licence in the carpark, outside the Heald Green pub, (Beefeater) which this couple ran too.”
- Amanda Robertson Facebook 2026
By 1979 Victoria Wine were back.
“My mum worked there from 1984- about 1988/9. When Freda was the boss.”
- Michele Bee, Facebook 2026
“I remember a lady called Freida working in Victoria Wine as well, white hat tied back and she wore "Poison" perfume, which I wasn’t keen on. On a clear night you could smell it from our house on Matlock, the heater over the door that used to blow down, obviously dispersing it far and wide.”
- Mark Jackson Facebook 2026
“We lived at the top end of Queensway late 90s, I remember Victoria wine.”
- Susan Parker Hawtin, Facebook 2026
It sounds like with the arrival of Londis, Victoria Wine eventually closed.
“When the Butlers sold the newsagents (possibly 1983), my mum went to work at Victoria wine. It was there for a while until then turned into a Londis, Ian and his wife bought it.”
- Suzanne Tapia, Facebook 2026
6 (and 8) Haddon Road
In March 1965 number 6 was a grocer’s shop.
Fig. 4 Peter Blacks advert
Contact Magazine March 1966
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By 1982/3 it had become a double fronted Spar shop in numbers 6 and 8.
“I live next door to the lady that worked on the meat counter in the Spar. She is in her 90s now.”
- Claire Tunnicliffe, Facebook 2026
Haddon Road Groceries were on the row in Autumn 1988 and may have been here?
“I remember when the Jaguar XJ went through the Spar one evening, maybe 1982/1983? The car was from Bradwell. I was always a car enthusiast and that car was impressive being the V12, despite being brown. Funnily enough, I drive a Jaguar XJ now.”
- Mark Jackson, Facebook 2026
“Yeah... I remember that... came from Bradwell Drive and didn't bother turning onto Queensway!!”
- Chris Walker, Facebook 2026
“I can remember us all getting some crisps and stuff, the chap who owned it said we may as well, sort of polite, authorised looting.”
- Mark Jackson, Facebook 2026
By at least February 1999 Londis were there.
Fig. 5 Londis 6 and 8 Haddon Road 17.2.1999
Stockport Times
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Figs. 6A and 6B Londis advert
Heald Green Festival Programme 1999
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Londis are still there today.
10 Haddon Road
Goodworths fruit stores Ltd were there in 1965. Classed as a fruiterers and greengrocers but I am also wondering whether they sold fish, as similar shops did on Finney Lane?
“From memory I thought the shops were there before the new estate. There was a fishmonger next to the butcher. I remember going in when I was about 10 and asking for skirt for hotpot and them laughing and telling me to go next door as I was in the fishmonger. I was very embarrassed. I’m 70 now so I would say that it was around 1966.”
- Tricia Boyd, Facebook 2026
By 1970 Thompsons were there.
Fig. 7 Thompsons advert
Heald Green Herald June 1970
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In 1972, HT McIntosh was there briefly before CD Ennis from 1972-76.
“I worked in the Greengrocer’s when Colin & Margaret Ennis had it. 1972-76 is about right.”
- Chris Findlater, Facebook 2026
J Morris, greengrocer was there in 1979 before Country Garden from 1982/3-88, who did sell fish!
“My Mum had the Greengrocers call the Country Garden, next to the Butchers.”
- Roger Cartledge, Facebook 2026
Fig. 8 Country Garden advert
Rose Queen Programme 1986
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“There was also Barrets greengrocers at one point.”
- Chris Walker, Facebook 2026
I am not sure where they fit into the timeline though. Let us know if you have more info!
“For a short time, there was a place that fitted house alarms. Think it was called Tess Alarms. It was the end where the supermarket is.”
- Chris Findlater, Facebook 2026
Tes Alarms were there in 1994.
Fig. 9 TES Alarms advert 10 Haddon Road
17.11.1994 Wilmslow Express Advertiser
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12 Haddon Road
Ian Morris, the butchers was there from 1966 until 1985/6, when he moved to Finney Lane.
Fig. 10 Haddon Road Shop Row 1982 or 83
© Darren Robinson
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“This photo is of the shops about 1982/3.
Left to Right - Paint or clothes shop. (orange film in windows, Family Tree) then Ian Morris (butchers), The Country Garden (greengrocers)-lovely peaches there! Then The Spar and the Vicky wine at the end, where you would wait for an older person to get you 10 Bennies or some Breaker lager. Face obscured to protect the innocent.”
- Darren Robinson, Facebook 2026
It then became Unsworth butchers for a short while. In the autumn of 1988 and the summer of 1989 the butchers donated prizes for the Ratepayers charter train excursions.
Fig. 11 Unsworth Butchers notice 4.1.1989
Manchester Evening News
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“Unsworth butchers I remember…”
- Daz Price, Facebook 2026
By early 1995 the shop had become Heald Green Balti House. It would remain until 2003 and the redevelopment of the row.
“One unit was briefly "Heald Green Balti House". Nice food too.”
- Dave Seton, Facebook 2025
Fig. 12 Heald Green Balti House advert 5.5.1995
Stockport Times
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14 Haddon Road
The shop called Family Tree was there by at least December 1975 to 1988. My mum’s best friend Irene worked there. Before that it may have been a haberdashery shop and perhaps named Family Affair?
“In 1970 there was a shop that sold haberdashery, I think somewhere in the middle of the row. I remember it sold things like wool, sewing material, ladies tights and possibly some clothes.”
- Gillian Goodwin, Facebook 2026
“I used to live on Rosendale Road and remember an off licence, a shop called Family Affair which our neighbour Kath Unsworth had and a newsagents. This would have been approx. 1970 to 74. I remember Kath asking for suggestions for a name. I think I gave her Family Affair because of the Sly and Family Stone record, but she may have changed it slightly.”
- Valerie Anderson, Facebook 2026
That song was 1971, so the shop called Family Affair may have been there earlier and then became Family Tree?
“My sister-in-law worked at The Family Tree.”
- Sue Evans, Facebook 2026
Fig. 13A Family Tree advert 31.12.1975
Alderley and Wilmslow Advertiser
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“There was also a clothes shop, called The Family Tree, my mum worked there for a while.”
- Cath Buttle, Facebook 2021
Fig. 13B Family Tree advert
Today Newspaper Nov 1979
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“The Family Tree was a firm favourite with my mum.”
- Alison Aspinall, Facebook 2026
“I remember a lady called Bessie ran it and she had 2 sons. She drove a Nissan Laurel Estate.”
- Mark Jackson, Facebook 2026
“I was the shop manager when the Burgess family owned the shop. Bessie had asked me to join the staff there from around 1976. Gerald and I would go to buy M&S seconds. Above the shop Mary Fielding did the accounts.”
- Irene Spencer, in conversation 2026
“My folks owned The Family Tree and we lived above it. We moved to Alty end of 88 and I can’t remember if they kept the shop on after that. They were there from 1979 to the end of 1988 and took over the existing business. As far as mum remembers there wasn’t a shop after that.”
- Peter Edward Burgess, Facebook 2026
Figs. 14A and 14B Family Tree advert
Rose Queen Programme 1986
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16 Haddon Road
Haddon Hardware were there by 1970 until at least 1977.
“There must have been a hardware shop, as I can remember buying a brass ornament for my nana whenever we went.”
- Robert Harmston, Facebook 2021
Fig. 15 Haddon Hardware advert
Heald Green Herald June 1970
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Lions wallpaper and paints was there in 1980 according to trade directories. It may have become White’s or was just known as that? It was Anna White’s shop.
“Lions hardware decorating shop. I spent many an hour in there.”
- Juliette Clough, Facebook 2026
“1980 sounds about right. We have no photos unfortunately. New Look on Finney Lane was my mum’s friend’s shop.”
- Lionel White, Messenger 2026
“It was called White's after the family who owned it. I went to school with their son, Lionel. I'd guess mid to late eighties.”
- Matthew Thompson, Facebook 2026
“There was a Johnstone’s paints for a bit too if I remember rightly. I remember going there with mum once and messing with a pricing gun!”
- Dave L Hardman, Facebook 2026
“Yeah Anna’s shop”
- Louise Adams, Facebook 2026
“I know Anna, Lionel’s mum. I’m sure Lions and Whites she owned. Definitely Whites as it’s their last name.”
- Daz Price, Facebook 2026
By 1988 the shop had become a bakery. Lynn’s Pantry was there before G&J Bakery in 1990.
“My parents had Lynn’s Pantry.”
- Angela Gore, Facebook 2026
Fig. 16 Lynn's Pantry advert 22.12.1988
Stockport Express Advertiser
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126 Turves Road is now the Rolling Pin bakery.
“The bakery was “Lynn’s Pantry”, which hilariously lost the letter r for a time!”
- Mark Jackson, Facebook 2026
“My mum worked at Lynn’s Pantry, Anne Downes. I also helped out as a teenager.”
- Giselle Louise Fox, Facebook 2026
“Definitely a bakers. The bread and cakes were gorgeous, as is the Rolling Pin.”
- Lynda Jackson, Facebook 2026
In March 2026, I went to speak to Stan who runs The Rolling Pin bakery on Turves Road, as residents had put the name of his shop forward as being on Haddon Road.
“The shop was empty when it was acquired by Ray Brentnall of Easy Bake Ovens in Sharston. He wanted to showcase how good the ovens were and so used the Haddon Road site as the bakery that then delivered to the other 2 shops also called Lynn’s Pantry. One on Lomond Road and one on Turves Road. I worked there until Gary Lovatt and his wife bought the shop and it became G and J Bakery but not for too long. I moved to Turves Road and took over the Lynn’s Pantry there, renaming it the Rolling Pin that is still here today. The name Rolling Pin was never at Haddon Road.”
- Stan, in conversation 2026
“I remember Stan the baker, I worked at Lynn’s Pantry cleaning and stuff, remember he had a white 3.0 Capri I was quite taken with. Remember two ladies Sue and another whose surname was Walker. I remember when Ray opened the shop on Lomond Road as it used to be a Butchers. I was given a day’s extra work, got delivered in Ray’s Jaguar with some cleaning stuff and told to clean the shop. The butchers hadn’t been all that thorough when leaving and left a fair bit of meat. The walk-in freezer had been turned off and it was a bit ripe, ripe enough for me to relieve myself of my breakfast. Ray thought this was hilarious and then buzzed off and left me to it, returning some hours later, me smelling like rotten meat, he was less than keen on giving me a lift back, not worth a quid an hour!”
- Mark Jackson, Facebook 2026
Fig. 17 G and J Bakery advert 26.9.1990
Stockport Express Advertiser
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18 Haddon Road
This unit was the newsagent by 1966.
Fig. 18 Frank Butlers advert December 1966
Contact Magazine
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“I remember the newsagent Butlers, when it first opened there was a free raffle and my mother won a tool chest, I used to deliver the Sunday papers.”
- Neil Sanig, Facebook 2026
“Back in the early/mid 70's I used to, briefly, work at the newsagent, Butlers - sister shop to Butlers on Wilmslow Rd. I used to do early morning paper rounds for the youngsters but was invariably late because the owner had overslept.”
- Paul Holcroft, Facebook 2026
“I used to work in Butlers Newsagents with my Mum as a Saturday Girl on Haddon Road shops. When I was older, I used to work at the other Butlers Shop he had on Wilmslow Road.”
- Janet Walters, Facebook 2023
“I used to work in Butler’s newsagents too. My name is Adrienne Butler, my dad was Frank and grandad lived above the shop. Haddon Road was Frank Butler senior!”
- Adrienne Booler, Facebook 2023
“Yes, that was right Frank Butler. I remember his dad too. He used to always be chatting my Mum up. My Mum was called Joan Cavanagh. She worked there for a few years, from about 1968/1972. Frank’s wife had short dark hair and was always well dressed.”
- Janet Walters, Facebook 2023
“We were one of the 1st families to move into Crantock Drive, think around 1967 only the first houses were built. My mum worked at Butler’s newsagents for many years, and I had a Saturday job there whilst at secondary school.”
- Suzanne Tapia, Facebook 2026
Between 1983 and 1986 A L Lawton was the newsagent.
“I worked at the newsagents as part time Sat/Sunday staff, my mum was with them for a while. I stayed over when the Lawtons came, it was a transaction period only short. Then I left after leaving grammar school, so they definitely took over straight away after the Butlers with no gap.”
- Suzanne Tapia, Facebook 2026
Geoff, Brian and Joan Woods came next.
Fig. 19 Woods Newsagents advert
Rose Queen Programme 1986
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“I had a Saturday job in the newsagents there in the late 1980s. There was a laundrette, Chinese takeaway called Golden Star, Joan and Brian Wood ran the newsagents. Next door was a bakery, the shop called family affairs. Spar I think was double fronted, then Victoria wine at the right-hand side. I remember Kath working in Family Affairs and I’m sure Pat Bonsall worked in Vicky Wine.”
- Chris Walker, Facebook 2026
Figs. 20A, 20B and 20C Woods advert
Rose Queen Programme 1988
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By 1990 the shop became Haddon Road News until at least 1999. In February 1999, Ian Kenneth Johnston applied for a liquor licence for Londis quoting 18 Haddon Road as his newsagents.
20 Haddon Road
By 1971 it was a chip shop.
“There was a fish and chip shop before the Chinese takeaway.”
“I remember a fish and chip shop run by Italians, 1975/76.”
- Ged Pilling, Facebook 2021 and 2026
“The Golden Star was initially a traditional fish and chip shop run by a Mr and Mrs Kemp. I worked there in 1971 peeling potatoes to earn extra pocket money. The layout was exactly the same as it is today.”
- John Coles, Facebook 2026
By 1975 the Queensway Friary was in the trade directories.
“Was the chippy up for sale before 1979 as I remember my mum looking at buying it? It must have been around 1977, think it was £19k. I remember me and my mum going to look at it, would have been around 76/77 no later. It was definitely English then before the Chinese moved there. Was the Chinese guy called Dave? I remember getting 3p worth of chips around 1978 lol, we used to sit on the step outside.”
- Richard Abbott, Facebook 2026
The Golden Star Chinese takeaway first appeared in the directories in 1979/80 and is still there in 2026.
Fig. 21 Golden Star advert
Heald Green Festival Programme 1999
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“The only shop that’s the same is the Golden Star. I go in there occasionally, as my parents still live on Matlock. It’s more or less identical to how it was 45 years ago; same counter, seats etc. The only clue are the prices, and the TV is no longer a CRT (cathode ray tube).”
- Mark Jackson, Facebook 2026
“Bought my first home, one of the Town houses 1973. The Chinese did a great Foo Yung.”
- Rodger Hunt, Facebook 2026
“Is the Golden Star still there? It used to be the best Chinese around.”
- Bev Ball, Facebook 2026
Fig. 22 The Golden Star 2021
© Colin Barnsley
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22 Haddon Road
This unit was different hairdressers for quite a while.
By 1965 Hazell’s (with two Ls) hairstylist was there.
Capricorn Hair Fashions came next from at least 1975 until 1990.
“My mum had the hairdressers, Capricorn.”
- Phil Igoe, Facebook 2026
“I think the hairdressers. was called Capricorn. I should remember, I was a Saturday girl there.”
- Gail Tansey, Facebook 2021
Fig. 23 Capricorn Hair Fashions advert 1986
Rose Queen Programme
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“I used to do Saturday work at Capricorn.”
- Dawn Ingham, Facebook 2026
“I think the Igoe family had the salon for a while. Yes Carol Igoe, my brother went to school with their son Philip, I think.”
- Suzanne Tapia, Facebook 2026
“Fazz hairdressers, video shop, chippy always been there since I was about 11 in 1986.”
- Daz Price, Facebook 2026
I am not sure whether Fazz was a person or the actual shop?
Next came Legends Hairdressers from 1991 until 2000.
“It was Legends and he moved to Aus. He had a shop in Handforth before he went.”
- Louise Smith, Facebook 2026
“It was owned by a guy called Steve, I went there for ages. Steve had a sort of Pat Sharp hairstyle. He also had a shop on Spath Lane in Handforth, I seem to remember he moved to Australia.”
- Mark Jackson, Facebook 2026
“He was called Steve Oldham as my hubby used to go and they had the same name.”
- Mandy Oldham, Facebook 2026
24 Haddon Road
In 1965 this was McLary launderette.
“We went over the school field (Outwood Primary) to Haddon Road to use the laundry there.”
“The Liverpool couple who had the laundry early seventies, he was a season ticket holder at Anfield.”
- Antony A Pownall, Facebook 2021 and 2026
“It was a great row of shops. I didn't have a washing machine when I first moved to East Ave in 1966, so the launderette on Haddon Road was very handy.”
- Margaret Burns, Facebook 2021
By 1979 the name had changed to Haddon Launderette.
Now let me take you back to video rentals and the 1980s!! The ability to rent and watch a film on video and play it on your own video player in your own house, without going to the cinema was revolutionary. Video rental shops popped up all over and Haddon Road was no exception, with the launderette becoming MMV Movie Master shop.
It later closed to become MMV Taxis.
“MMV was the video shop, run by a chap who had worked on the buses. He knew my grandad who had also worked for Selnec. After the shop closed down, he drove a taxi and that was down as MMV taxis, he lived on Freshfield. He took us to the Valley Lodge a few times.”
- Mark Jackson, Facebook 2026
“Not 100 percent on whether the Video Shop and Taxi businesses overlapped but think he got rid of the shop fairly soon after starting the taxi service. Can remember going in on the day it opened. I bought a copy of the Lost Boys when the shop was closing. Funnily enough I have put the video recorder in the skip this week. I bought it from Rumbelows monthly, it was over £400 back then, so equivalent to about £1500 now. It was quite a nice one for that much and it was hard skipping it, but I’d had it 36 ? years.”
- Mark Jackson, Facebook 2026
“I used to work in a video shop there. That would have been around mid to late eighties at a guess. I vaguely remember everyone getting excited about Fatal Attraction coming out on VHS! It closed down and the chap used the name as MMV Taxis.”
- Zelda Fenney, Facebook 2021
“MMV Moviemaster video was on Haddon Rd, he later became John, MMV taxis. Well, taxi singular, there was only him.”
- Diane Elkington, Facebook 2021
That then is the names of the shops that I could find. Residents also told me about a café on the end, a cafe/confectioners in the middle and a sports shop briefly. As I have not found every single business they could have been in any of the units there.
“I think the end one was a café very early on, before Baslow was built.”
- Les Clough, Facebook 2021
“The cafe run by Italians, 1973/74/75.”
- Antony A Pownall, Facebook 2026
This could possibly have been inside the chippy but John who worked there in 1971 said the Golden Star layout was the same, so perhaps not?
“Only thing I can add is sometime in mid-1960s there was a confectioners which also had a few tables/chairs inside and sold drinks and snacks.”
- Graham Bloxsome, Facebook 2026
“We moved onto Bradwell in 1975. From memory the laundrette was on one end, the Victoria wine was on the other. I can’t remember where they all were but there was a newsagent, Chinese takeaway, newsagent, butchers, green grocer, DIY shop, Spar. There was a sports shop there for a short time. Think there was a hairdresser there as well. The shops were there before the new estate was built which was the late 70s.”
- Lynne Scott, Facebook 2026
By the early 1990s the shops were becoming a problem.
Fig. 24 From the Contact Magazine
Number 108 Spring 1991 Jottings page 4
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Fig. 25 From the Contact Magazine
Number 112 Autumn 1991 Jottings page 4
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Fig. 26 New shops and flats proposal
Stockport Times 29.4.1993
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Application number J/57490 was accepted by SMBC planning in May 1993 from Mannin Project Managers. This was only to erect rear entrance doors from 4-24 Haddon Road to first floor flats and demolish rear walled areas and garages to provide new parking spaces.
Another application followed from the same company, J/58397 approved in September 1993, for a two storey side extension to west of units 24 and 24A, for a ground floor shop and flat.
In March 1994, Anglo International Holdings were granted planning under J/59267, to change a retail unit at number 12 (became the Balti House) to a hot food takeaway and alter the first floor flat from residential to storage.
Fig. 27 From the Contact Magazine
Autumn 1994
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Mr A Askor in February 1995 applied for a single storey rear extension and new shop front to number 12 and this was granted under J/61636.
Fig. 28 From the Contact Magazine
Number 121 Summer 1995 Jottings page 6
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In July 1996 permission was refused for Anglo International Holdings to change unit number 14 (once the Family Tree) to a hot food takeaway shop under application J/64805.
In June 1997 for numbers 6 - 8 (Londis), Anglo International Holdings were refused permission under reference J/67179, to change the ground floor retail unit to a restaurant/hot takeaway.
In April 1999, Kingsley Fereday Management under application J/71842, were given permission to erect canopies to the front units.
It was not until January 2003, under application DC/010139, that Anglo Holdings International Limited were granted permission to redevelop the ground floor retail shops at numbers 4, 10, 14, 16, 18, 22 and 24 to form seven flats.
The flat roof would be pitched with rear roof lights. The first floor fronts would have bay windows and ground floor entrances with canopies. At this point, numbers 6 and 8 were still Londis, number 12 was the Balti House, and number 20 was the Golden Star.
In September 2004, number 12 was added to the renovation under application DC/015721. Therefore the Balti House is no longer on the row.
Fig. 29 Haddon Road Shops row 10.3.2026
© H Morgan
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Fig. 30 Haddon Road Shops row 10.3.2026
© H Morgan
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Fig. 31 Haddon Road Shops row 2021
© C Barnsley
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