The Oliver family were well known as fishmongers, various branches being found in Lower St Edmund Street, Abbotsbury road, Trinity Road and High Street.
The 1937 edition of Kellys directory shows nos. 9 and 11 high street occupied by Bessie Oliver shopkeeper and Joseph Oliver fishmonger respectively.
After the Second World War the Olivers occupied 25a and 26 Trinity Road.
The shop in the picture in High Street will be remembered as a toy and sweet shop in the 1950s before its demolition about 1955.
Many will remember the shops in Trinity Road where one of the Olivers, Joe ran a wet fish shop and next door his sisters ran a very nice sweet shop. Here the writer and many other children of the 1950s and 1960s always got a kindly welcome from Jessie and her sister and probably spent too much on sweets to the detriment of their teeth!
