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Tivoli Buildings
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28 Andover Road (formerly 3 Tivoli Buildings)
Number 3 Tivoli Buildings was first opened as a draper’s and milliner’s shop by Mrs Mary Goodwin, who was here until the early 1870s. In around 1880 Mr W. Howell, the dairyman from 2 Tivoli Buildings, then took over the premises.
William Howell was born in 1830 in Horsley, near Nailsworth. When he was 19 he converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he remained very active. As a young man he came to work at the Tivoli Dairy, where he was a first a deliveryman, serving milk out of large churns. He later became the manager and then owner of that dairy.
In his various advertisements it seems clear that Mr Sadler offered a wide range of food, household products and wines and spirits over the years he was here. By the 1920s this shop was known as the “Tivoli Supply Stores”. Mr Sadler died in 1925 and the grocery business was continued by Wilding & Co.
Confusingly, in 1940 the company of E.Knight was advertising at 1,2 & 3 Tivoli Buildings as a ploughing and cultivating contractor. They may have occupied offices upstairs, as Mr Bert Wilding had unbroken occupancy of the shop throughout the war years.
In 1943 Bert Wilding was fined £2 10 shillings (£2.50) for buying and selling gooseberries at too high a price. During World War II there were very strict regulations in force governing the price of food to prevent profiteering in times of shortage. The court accepted that Mr Wilding had made a genuine mistake and were lenient in the fine. In court Mr Wilding stated that he had been in the grocery business for 50 years.
After Mr Wilding came a grocers called Silk and Son, which had been trading since 1843 and had shops in the High Street from at least 1875. They were here until 1965, when this property then became part of Bristol Vintner’s Ltd and, later still, Tyler’s Wine Merchant.
