Dunstable Yesteryear: Famous Albion Street shops.
This photograph of Albion Street in Dunstable, looking towards the high street, depicts some once-familiar local shops.
The Sugar Loaf Hotel can be seen in the backdrop. Elite Decorations, the shop nearest the camera, was once THE location to buy wallpaper.
Its owner was Ken Ims, president of the Dunstable Chamber of Trade in 1965, when the Chamber was still purchasing fruit for the Good Friday Orange-Rolling event on Dunstable Downs.
Bev Stott opened the Stotts shop next door, which sells prams and children’s nursery items, as an extension to his main furniture business on Middle Row, in 1961.
The enormous DEA sign represents Dunstable Estate Agency, where Tony Darby was a prominent figure in the town’s booming housing market.
Don Janes newspaper shop and Vanity Fair clothes are located farther down the road. The Dunstable Borough Gazette building is located at the corner of the high street.
In June 1879, the daily relocated to what were referred to as “the new offices”.
Four months later, the paper’s printing operations relocated to adjoining premises, from a warehouse on the other side of the street.
The printing facilities ended in the 1930s, and Andrew Colley, an estate agent, purchased the Gazette office building in 1972.
The Gazette’s editorial headquarters relocated to Wentworth House on High Street North in August 1986.
Yesteryear was compiled by John Buckledee, chairman of the Dunstable and District Local History Society.
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