Trading Places Campden & District

Description

By: J Ellis & J Bruce

In 2000 CADHAS set up a Community Archive with funding from the lottery. This has resulted in over 4000 photographs being scanned into digital format and many hours of recordings of inhabitants’ memories. This book is the first to be published as a result of this project and joins a series of books published by the Society over its 20 years history. Although Chipping Campden cannot be classed as a major shopping centre it certainly had its share of grocers, bakers, chemists, butchers, drapers and general stores catering not just for Chipping Campden but also the surrounding villages. This book looks at a selection of the shops and, following a brief historic description of the business, records people’s memories of the shop and shopkeepers. There are many photographs and illustrations which remind the reader of the independent shopkeeper before supermarkets and national chains.

Published by Campden and District Historical and  Archaeological Society