In December 1877 Frederick Hewer, aged 16, was convicted of stealing a 6lb tin of biscuits from the Bath Road Tea Warehouse and was sentenced to 7 days imprisonment (it might have been worse, but he had excellent character references from a previous employer). He never came before the bench again.

Mr Adams continued to run the shop until at least 1904 and he died in 1911.

​In 1915 the shop was bought by Frank West. He was born in Stourbridge in 1874 and soon after his birth, the family moved to Cheltenham. He started his working life at Cypher’s Nurseries in Queen’s Road, eventually becoming head of the Palm House. After working for a local greengrocer for some years, Frank started his own business, at what was then 85 Upper Bath Road.

Alf and his wife Ina had two children. In 1967 their son Don joined the business making three generations working together as Mrs West senior continued to work at the shop for a couple of hours each day until well into her eighties.

Many local boys helped out as errand boys going out on carrier bikes delivering customer’s orders. In the early days the lads had to cycle to the large houses around the Park or on Leckhampton Hill to collect the order from Cook before going back later on with the fruit and vegetables she had requested.

In 1980, after 65 years in the same family, the shop was sold. Mr Bernard Chapman took it over as a greengrocers shop for a short time and then it became a second-hand furniture shop.