This small cottage first operated as a sweet and green grocery shop run by Sarah Teed, then from about 1918 as a confectionery shop by Jane Craine, who was also a local midwife.
From 1939 this became Mrs Violet Shepherd’s grocery store, before later becoming a private residence. In recent years it was an antique and collectables shop.
Next door at no 85 there was Patrick O’Sullivan’s saddlery, demolished in the 1930s. On the south side of the saddlery was a laneway that went through to Grantley St. The story goes that this was to make it easy for people to get through to the Methodist Church from Sussex Street.
The photo on your screen is of O’Sullivan’s saddlery before demolition in the 1930s.
