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Station Street 4 Fisher & Co ironmongers tools etc advert from 1930, an identical advert is from a publication of 1906. This became George Firns in 1939 that sold similar items and the section to the left of the shop window was made into another shop window. The windows above were changed to bigger modern windows, but the windows on the top floor remain with their arch. One son worked in the shop and the daughter worked in the section to the left as a ladies outfitters. The numbering of Station Street changed, this is now number 4. The photo is from an advert of Fisher & Co who list their services as: Ironmonger, plumbers, Bar, Iron and steel merchants, gasfitters, tin plate workers, contractors. Note electro-plated goods were popular because stainless steel was expensive so cheaper metal had electro plating to stop tarnishing and rust. from identical adverts 1906 and 1930
Station Street 4 Fisher hardware with small foundry their cast stopcock covers still seen in footpaths of Cockermouth in the rear became Firns hardware shop c 1900
Station Street 4 GPO Staff 1900. The top of the doorway is now a triangle, and was the Coral bookmaker but now a charity shop c 1900.
Station Street 4a was The Ministry of Labour now Coral betting shop; 4b was the Post Office now White & Green accessories for the home and garden; 4c was the Ministry of Labour now Cerebral Palsy charity shop but now the recessed telephone built into the wall is the entrance to the shop. c 1950
Station Street 4 Firns hardware shop. George Firn opened the shop in Station Street in 1939 and expanded to include the adjacent shops up to and including WH Smiths (now Lindsay delicatessen). The shop section on the left can just be seen, it had been the single storey shop of Nora Hazilton’s wool shop. The photo shows the entrance to the flats above George Firn’s shop. In the late 50s after this photo was taken, the building to the left of Fin’s store was demolished and a new two storey building erected which was used by George Firn’s daughter in the 60s as a dress shop (previously). Sadly she died young and the shop was first used by Firns and then became a newsagent. Currently it is a fresh fish shop and Firn’s store contracted and is now about to be reused as another restaurant or food outlet.
Station Street 6 The Cutting Room Firns Harware 8 newsagent c 2000
Station Street 8 10 Linday butcher moved from Main Street in the 1980s. Meglan computer shop. c 2000
Station Street 2 today's Cumberland Building Society now on left edge, The brick wall of the District Bank was demolished after it merged with the National Provincial Bank, (seen here on Main Street)and Westminster Bank (which was also on Station Street) to form the new Natwest Bank which required a new building that was built where the old magnificent facade and building of the Public Hall was demolished on Station Street. Natwest Bank also eventually closed and the building is now fast food outlets as is the National Provincial bank which is now serving food. c 1960

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