J.G.Bailey Story

Hello
I was born in Swindon in 1941 , but now live in Surrey.
I am eager to learn if anyone has heard of (or even remembers!) my grandfather’s shop J.G.Bailey, family butcher, circa 1933 . I believe the address was 1A Rodbourne Road .
I have 3 photos which I am in the process of scanning for submission to the Swindon Collection at the Central Libary. HOpefully, they will appear on the Flickr website soon.
Any information from your group would be welcome. Thank you.
Anne Clement

3 Comments

  1. Jean Allen on July 15, 2010 at 20:03

    Mr. J.G. Bailey was a shopkeeper at 1A Rodbourne Road in the 1933 streets directory. Some time ago a lady told me a little story about the butcher boy who worked there. Her relative worked at the ladies hairdressers opposite at 174, they smiled and waved at each other from the window, then he passed her a note to make a date, she eventually married him…These three lock up shops,part of the Fireplace Centre were very recently demolished and flats are being built there.

  2. Gordy on July 16, 2010 at 12:30

    This is strange Jean as Anne Clement did tell me of this tale but having checked the Business Registers for 1931 to 1934 only Emily Hunt was in residence in 174 with no business registered against her so I discounted it. Could it have been one of those “Front Room” businesses so prevalent in Rodbourne? The nearest registered hairdresser in Rodbourne Rd was W.H.R. Bezer at 181.

  3. Anne Clement on January 16, 2021 at 17:38

    I have found a letter sent to me by Jean Allen some years ago in which she wrote that she remembered the hairdresser opposite J G Bailey’s butcher’s shop. It was run by Beryl Thompson.. Jean was about 3 yrs old then and had her very dark, straight hair cut like the film star Anna May Wong . I do not know if it was a shop or a front room of a house.

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