Summary

Original estate: ?Hungerford
Earliest records: 1781
Date of building:
Listed? No
Commoner's Rights: Yes

Thumbnail History

Butcher, shoemaker, baker, wool shop, stationer's, sweet shop, toy shop.

Note the cottages to rear, along Church Lane. They appear on the 1819 EA, but were rebuilt and extended by John Newton in c.1980.

Timeline

1781 (CL) John Snook?
1807 (CL) Stephen Snook
1819 (EA) Burgage plot marked as "Snook"

1841 (CS) Charles Osmond (20), butcher
1847 (CL) Stephen Snook; Charles Osmond (occ)

1851 (CS) John Smith (58) boot and shoemaker.
1861 (CL) Stephen Snook; John Smith (occ)
1861 (CS) John Smith (76), cordwainer.

1871 (CS) Stephen Smith (40) bootmaker
1881 (CS) Stephen Smith (54) shoemaker

1896 (CL) Trustees of Stephen J.R. Snook; John Hawkins (occ)
1914 (CL) John Hawkins
1920s Johnny Hawkins, cake, sweets and tea shop. Johnny Hawkins was Althea Barr's uncle.

1930s-40s Robert and Vera Harris, baker.
1939 (Blacket's) W.J. Harris, confectioner (R. Harris)
1947 (CL) Robert Harris
1952 (CL) Robert Harris
1956 (CL) Robert Harris
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c.1957 Bert Wyatt, baker.
1963 (CL) Albert George Wyatt
1968 (CL) Brenda Newton
1970 (CL) Brenda Newton

1970s-80s Mrs Kathleen Norris' wool shop (lived then in 2 Charnham Street)
- Knight Frank & Rutley office on first floor (10a), moved in 1996 to 22 HS.
1976 (CL) Void
1978 Norris – woolshop

1981 Newton Mews developed behind 10 HS.

1983 (CL) Void (KFR, Woolshop)
1984 (CL) Void
1985 (CL) Void

June 1989 "Rainbows End" card shop, run by Helen Barnard (daughter of John Newton)
1990 (CL) Helen Patricia Barnard
2000 (CL) Helen Patricia Barnard
2005 (CL) Helen Patricia Barnard
June 2007  Rainbows End closed. (Helen and Darrell
               Barnard moved to Blandford Forum)

Toys at No 10, Nov 2011

Johnny Hawkins, c1920

Rainbow's End, Jan 2007

Sugar Mouse, May 2011