A few years ago when the Co-op, Rolph's Hardware Store and Lloyd's Bank Branch agency closed, older residents of Haddenham were promted to recall the shopping and business facilities in the parish during the 1900's.

High Street

Peters/Rutterford/Bramley/Palmer/Co-op/Alsop/Titmarsh.....butchers

Collins, tailor: Burton, basketmaker: Savage, wheelwright: Wilson, corn merchant (and betting shop):

Bester, seed merchant: Chapman (or Chaplin), hardware: Warren, roots and fruits: Abbey National

Building Society: Sid Lee, painter and decorator: Bill Benton, carrier to Ely and Cambridge by horse and

cart: Victors (latterly Rolph's Hardware Store) originally had petrol and parrafin pumps:

Head/Godwin/D'oyley, drapers: Maud Alsop, sweets, tobacco and haberdashery:

Brookes/Bearcock/Jones/Wilkinsand now Walker, newsagents: George Salmons became a fruit and

vegetable collecter after the bakery closed in the late forties: Setchells owned the bakery before Sykes

and which is now occupied by Hills, Harnwell and Rutterford, butchers: Adam Palmer, watch and clock

repairer: Browns the drapers: and the following stores..... Adams: Salmons (and bakery): Collins/Crofts

(and drapery) fish and chip shop/bike shop/Tower Communications/CB shop: Frisks (and Post Office):

Godwin (and drapery): Sykes (and bakery)/Mallyons/Wrights: Co-op (and drapery): Dodds, the Top

Shop (and drapery)/International/Spar/Costcutter: Bearcock (and Paper Shop).

Station Road, Sutton Road 

Porter: Alderton/Darby/Lewis.....butchers, Gotobed and Carter, coal merchants: Steel, cycle repairers:

Mop Factory/Picture Framing: Works, Hairdresser: Dove the blacksmith: Newman the harness maker:

Green/Blankley/Battersby, chemist: Sid Carter - later in the High Street - general store: Oxer's Stores:

Hepher's Cheese Factory: Jewson's and Porter's Brick Kilns: Palmers Farm Contractor: Ward, dairy and

milk deliveries: Bob Webster, mole catcher: Jessie Clarke, cream cheese business at Brickyard House.

The Green, West End 

Bristow, fishmonger - formerly in Station Road and letterly in the High Street; Feast, builder and

undertaker/Alsop Fruit and Veg. shop/lawn mower and light horticultural machines depot/Insurance

Agency: Setchells the millers and corn merchant/seagraves Furniture Stores/antique shops: Matthews the

cobbler: Yarrow/Bowns, fish and chips: Holmes (Michells), general store.

Hop Row 

Steel, windmill maker/elecrical shop/antiques: Poole, general stores: Wright the barber/ladies

hairdresser: Burkitt, cycle repairer: Burkitt, threshing tackle works/ Mclarens Garage/Manchetts Garage. 

Wood sales were held in the Three Kings Yard: Peter Steel, nurseryman, Hovell, saddler. 

Hill Row 

Newells, Russells and Holmes, general stores: Woolstenholmes Milk Transport/Milk Marketing Board:

Key and Pell, chemicals, W Newell, gents hair: Bertie Mills, cobbler and chimney sweep: Keith Patterson,

blacksmith. 

Aldreth 

Pooles Stores: English Provender, jam and pickle manufacturers: Fenland Sadderly.

Others 

Aldreth Road (Mill End), Laurence the miller:

The Rampart, Peacocks Threshing Tackles:

Aldreth Hill, Primes Bone and Manure Works:

Stone Cross Corner, Peters the carpenter: Millar the blacksmith:

Aldreth Road, Jack Richards Haulage

Froize End, Avroland Tyres: Bethell, carpenter and undertaker

And many more......

My thanks to Lorna Delanoy who compiled this list for the Farmland Museum.