Hello George and Gnatalee,
I have moved forward from 1891 to 1930 with the Parish Magazine.
It is now printed by HK Sykes, The Peak Press, Chapel.
By now we have local advertisers:
A Kirk is a coal merchant and his phone number was WB 6
Livesley the chemist has the phone number WB 42
Whaley Bridge Cash Drapery Co., 12 Market Street Specialising in “Fitu” corsets (No Phone)
TH Coates 16 Market Street, Opticians and film developers WB 41
The Whaley Bridge Garage (Prop J Potter) WB 26
J Broklehurst (Tailors) agents for Radiac shirts, 26 Market Street WB 77
John drinkwater (Butcher) 2 Market Street WB 31
J Roome (Fishmonger) 4 Market Street, stocker of pure block ices WB 37
H Tomkinson (Hairdresser and tobacconist) Buxton Road (No Phone)
Cooper and Pearson (Grocers) Est 1845 WB 11
J Carter (Newsagent) stationer, bookbinder, printer and lending library 222 Market Street (No Phone)
Misses A&S Potter (General and Fancy Drapers) Ladies underwear 6 Buxton Road (No Phone)
There is also a quite strange advert: J H Proctor (Undertaker) Old Road who also gives estimates for Bungalows and Garages etc (No Phone)
I can’t, for the moment at any rate, locate who had the phone number WB 1
More to follow if anyone is in the slightest bit interested.
R. S-S