
The corner of Wood Street and St.Andrew's Road South in 1927.
Russell & Co., were located in the premises today occupied by
Sopers. |
1927
WOOD STREET has always been regarded as a fine business street
of the future. Just off the main thoroughfare it taps the great
population, south of the Wood Street line, between St. Andrew's
Road South and South Drive. Forty years ago
(the 1880s) there were three shops
in Wood Street—the late Dr. George Rhodes and the late Mr.
Richard Worthington (now incorporated in Russell's), and Mrs.
Grundy's drapery establishment, afterwards transformed into Oak
Bank, the residence of the late Mr. Richard Whitaker
(now Margarets Flower Shop on the corner
of Park Road). |