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74 Sussex St - site of Shepherd's grocery store and ironmongery store

from the audio walk Historic Tour of Linton: Walk 1 | LINTON

Historic Tour of Linton: Walk 1
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74 Sussex St - site of Shepherd's grocery store and ironmongery store

This double storey brick shop replaced a shop destroyed by fire in 1896 (see previous entry). It was operated as a family grocery and hardware store by Joseph Shepherd until his death in 1921.

Subsequent proprietors or managers of grocery businesses here were Alf Darling and Richard Albert Crosthwaite. G G Bennett moved his butchery here in 1932 from 87 Sussex St and operated here until 1946, when it was bought by Rex Hayward. Other butchers followed, including Ken Walters and Arthur Uren. Frank Verdoorn bought the building and opened his own butcher’s shop in 1974, later adding a newsagency in the other half.

More recently, this building has housed in its southern half, an upholstery business, a second-hand clothing shop and a collectables and giftware shop.

Have a look at the picture on your screen and you will see the view from the early 1900s of Sussex St looking north. Shepherd’s grocery store is on the left, with the fence of the Shire offices and Hall next door, and various small shops, down to Barr’s shop on the corner.


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Other stops on this audio tour:

Introduction (1:53 min) • Site of original Shire Hall, now Linton Community Hub (1:09 min) • 64-66 Sussex Street - site of Austin's tailor shop, J Y Clarke barber and tobacconist, and Barr's drapery store (1:36 min) • 62 Sussex Street - site of Royal Standard Hotel (1:00 min) • 58 Sussex Street - former home of the Allan family and Hall's Bakery (0:45 min) • 56 Sussex Street - former home of Ernest and Fanny Ball (0:22 min) • 54 Sussex Street - former home of Oscar and Elizabeth Ball (0:41 min) • 52 Sussex Street - site of Ball Brothers' Blacksmiths (0:51 min) • 46 Sussex Street - former first house of Oscar Ball (0:44 min) • Pioneer Memorial (0:37 min) • Site of Bryant's Shop, on the street behind the memorial (0:54 min) • 53 Sussex Street - former home of Nellie Gray, opera singer (0:55 min) • 55 Sussex Street - former home of Cassie McBeath (0:34 min) • 57 Sussex Street - former Bank of New South Wales (0:55 min) • 59 Sussex Street - former Linton Post Office (1:02 min) • 61-63 Sussex Street - site of Bennett's and Todd's Butchery (1:34 min) • 65 Sussex Street - former Todd family home (0:45 min) • 67 Sussex Street - Linton Library (1:47 min) • 69 Sussex Street - Linton and District Historical Society: The Letty Armstrong Resource Centre, formerly Nelson's Undertakers (1:39 min) • 71-73 Sussex St – Railway Hotel (1:28 min) • Site of original Grenville Standard office, between Railway Hotel and Murrell's Newsagency (0:42 min) • 75 Sussex Street - former Murrell's Newsagency (0:53 min) • 77 Sussex Street - site of previous Linton fire station (1:17 min) • 79 Sussex Street (0:21 min) • 79A Sussex Street - former Bennett's Garage (0:40 min) • 81 Sussex Street - formerly sweet and green grocery shop (1:00 min) • 87 Sussex Street - site of G G Bennett's butcher's shop (1:17 min) • 89 Sussex Street - former Nichol's Bakehouse (0:50 min) • From 91 Sussex Street to corner of Gillespie Street - site of Ellington House, Black Swan Hotel, and Preston's shop (1:20 min) • 90 Sussex Street - Traquair House, site of Bank of New South Wales 1861-1904 (1:25 min) • 88 Sussex Street - former Bonthorn's/Sandow's/Jennings' shop (1:17 min) • 84 Sussex Street - site of Ching's grocery store and residence (1:01 min) • 80 Sussex Street - former Nicholls'/Morgan's/Verdoorn's grocery store (1:32 min) • 76-78 Sussex Street - site of original Wesleyan Methodist Church and Joseph Shepherd's house (1:08 min) • 68 Sussex Street - site of Criterion House (1:33 min) • Conclusion (0:51 min)


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