A boon photo (From Dorset Echo)
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A boon photo
11:00am Tuesday 24th January 2012 in Looking Back By Ruth Meech
Boon’s Stores in Dorchester
RICHARD Smith, a regular reader of, and contributor to, Looking Back has been in touch once again with this lovely image.
It is of the inside of Boon’s Stores in Dorchester and was taken in the early 1990s, although Richard – who lives in the county town – can’t be sure of the exact date.
He said: “The picture is the interior of Boon’s Stores, which was a grocer in South Street, Dorchester in the early 1900s.
My grandfather Harry Smith worked there for many years. He came to Dorchester in 1905 and my father was born here in 1906 in a cottage, which no longer exists. It stood outside the prison on Friary Hill, below North Square.”
Richard added: “I wonder if any readers recognise any family members in the photograph.
“I did show it to a member of the Boon family and she told me Boon’s used to have two stores in South Street, one in Cornhill and one near where Thornton’s chocolate shop now is. I believe that this is the Cornhill shop.”
Does anyone out there have any further details?
