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Celebrating 150 years

Welcome to our website which we have set up as part of our sesquicentennial celebrations! We are a long established family grocers at Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight. We hope that you will find the history of this unique business interesting and that you will be inspired to take part in some of the celebratory events. We would welcome your comments on our Guest Book page and, of course, look forward to meeting you in the shop.

The site is still being developed and will be updated continually in 2015 so please keep in touch regularly.


Prize Draw


1st Prize (Hamper)
- Tom Groves
2nd Prize (Bottle of wine)
- Megan Eggeling
3rd Prize (Box of chocolates)
- Hazel Wyld
Congratulations to all the winners

Meet the
Staff

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Our staff, past and present

Shop
History

Learn about the shop's past

1865 and
All That

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Life 150 years ago
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