The next occupant was a very familiar name to many people; Fred Stephens was the butcher here in the 1930s. He had left by the start of the Second World War but returned to the road when he bought Leigh James’ shop, a few doors away, in 1961.

After the War the shop itself became a tea-shop called, appropriately, The Corner Café. It was run by Mrs Peggy Aitken, who was the sister of Mrs Diana Leopold. Mrs Leopold had visited her sister in Scunthorpe, Lincs where Mr Aitken worked in the mines, and taught her the art of baking. Mr Aitken left the mines through ill-health and, with his wife, moved south. When this shop became available they moved in and opened a café.

The shop was taken over by the Leopold family in the mid 1960s. Leopolds Bakery had been started by Mr Frederick Bowman Leopold and his wife shortly before the outbreak of the 1914 – 1918 war. Frederick was born in the Channel Islands about 1888 and when he was 14 he joined a firm of grocers on the island of Jersey. Three years later he and his parents moved to the mainland where they made their home in Birmingham.

This was a scheme where customers were charged for their paper bags and the money put to charity. In all, over eight and a half thousand pounds was raised and the money used for two new ambulances, parcels for prisoners of war, a donation to the General Hospital and the remainder to other charitable institutions. After Mr Leopold died at his home in Leckhampton Road, on December 2nd 1951, the business was carried on by his sons, Peter and Bob.

Although the Leopold family continues to own the premises the shop was taken over by Norths, another family firm of bakers based in Winchcombe, which operated five shops in this part of Gloucestershire. Then in the summer of 2014 this changed again to Parsons, also a family-owned company with 38 shops in the south of England.