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52 Suffolk Road (formerly Waltham House)

Number 52 was formerly known as Waltham House and was built in around 1885. By 1890 William Herbert traded here as a jeweller and he was reported in the local newspaper of that year as having invented a “timepiece gas regulator” for automatically turning on and lowering gas lights. In 1897 a young man called Thomas George Busswell temporarily took over the shop as a watch & clock maker, as a tenant of Mr James Barry.

In 1898 Waltham House was sold by James Barry for £600, although he leased it back and managed the Waltham House Printing Company here for a few years. ​

1922

Then by 1902 came a trade that was to last for more than 50 years in the form of an ironmongers, which was run by Mr Broome Rogers, who had previously been in Great Norwood Street. Among other items, the shop sold and maintained lawnmowers and bicycles. In about 1921 he sold the business to Llewellyn & Son, under the ownership of Edmund Llewellyn. The ironmongers changed owner again in about 1933, with Mr James Herbert Youings, who died in 1960.

​In 1961 the trade changed and under Lawrence’s (L.E. Howes) the property sold New & Second Hand Furniture.

Previously the Ruby Cantonese restaurant, this is now bhoomi, specialising in South Indian food.

bhoomi

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Researcher: Stuart Manton (February 2020)

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