No.84-88 High Street

No.84-86

No.84

No.86-88

No.88

Notes

• In early 2016 the Wakefield-based clothing retailer Bonmarché opened a new branch here in Newmarket.
  
  

  Bonmarché®

  No.84-88 High Street - 20th October 2016

• Tesco Express

• In 2013 W.H. Smiths Newsagents, No.s 84-86 High Street closed and moved into its stationery shop at No. 80 High Street.
  W.H. Smiths had been at this location since it took over from the previous stationers Simpson and Jeffery.
  When opened it was originally stationers, bookshop and newsagents - the store later expanded and they opened the stationery shop at No. 80.
  
  
• In April 2014 Tesco made plans to turn this shop into one of its Express stores:-
  
  Newmarket News
  
  
• But with downturn in the retail market the planned Newmarket store was one of those that became part of Tesco's cutbacks - and the store never opened.
  
  

Now you see it ....	... now you don't
Proposed Tesco Express shop front - 2014 - the store that never happened ....

• George Simpson - Simpson and Jeffery

• This location is another of those series of shops that have changed their boundaries over the years; George Simpson started his shop in No.86, then later extended it into No.88, bridging between two buildings.
  
  
• George Simpson, Master Printer, Bookseller and Stationer was born in 1837 in Newmarket.
  Living in Railway Street in 1861 he later moved to Kingston Villa, between Kingston Passage and Sun Lane.
  Both his son, Walter Henry Simpson and his grandson Frank Gilbert Simpson (b. 1890) were also printers.
  George died in September 1917 and the 1920s photo below shows that Frank had taken over the High Street shop by this time.
  
  
• George started printing the Newmarket Journal in 1872, but not in this actual shop - his printworks building was behind the shop in the Duddery, part of the Rookery. A gate at the rear of the shop allowed easy access to this.
  
  

  Kelly's Directory 1896

• Frank Richard's Hairdressers was in the remainder of the right-hand side building, in what is now No.84.
  
  
• When the shop became Simpson and Jeffery - on the left of that, adjacent to the entrance into the courtyard at the rear, was a set of steps leading up to a door. This was the entrance into a long passage leading to the back of the building in which was Brumby hairdressers.
  
  

Newmarket Journal Ronald Pettitt Published on 06/09/2007 FORMER Newmarket hairdresser Ronald Pettitt, of Jarvis Way, Newmarket, died at the Kingfisher nursing home in the town on August 3, 2007. He was 78. Born and living all his life in Newmarket, he became an apprentice when he was 14 in 1944 to Edmund Brumby, before working with his brother, Harry, in Wellington Street. In the early 1970s, he moved to premises on Exning Road where he worked until his retirement.



• When W.H. Smith took over from Simpson and Jeffery they returned the buildings to their original form; taking over Baxters Butchers on the right-hand side and re-making No.84-86 a distinct seperate entity.
  
  Clarks shoe shop took up residence in No.88, which became Toni & Guy hairdressers in 2005. The High Street door into Brumby's has gone, and entrance into the upstairs offices of what is now Stacey & Partners Chartered Accountants is from the courtyard at the rear (if you search online you'll see their address is No.88 high Street).
  
  From adverts in the Newmarket Journal in 1975 it's also known that the long-time Journal photographer Peter Faulkes had his address as No.88 High Street.
  
  
• English Heritage Listed Building Details:-
  http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-275659-84-and-86-high-street-newmarket-suffolk
  
  

84 and 86, High Street Grade: II Date Listed: 26 June 1984 English Heritage Building ID: 275659 Butcher's shop and part of stationer's shop with dwelling above.



• English Heritage Listed Building Details:-
  http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-275660-86-and-88-high-street-newmarket-suffolk
  
  

86 and 88, High Street Grade: II Date Listed: 26 June 1984 English Heritage Building ID: 275660 Shop with offices above.




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• Building Changes

• Planning Application - F/78/373
  86 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 02-06-1978
  Office extension.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/85/737
  84/88 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 03-12-1985
  Alterations including extensions and c/use of first floor and second floor to offices.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/85/738/LB
  84/88 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 03-12-1985
  Refurbishments and improvements.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/86/344/LB
  84/88 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 23-05-1986
  Rendering of facade.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/86/692
  84-88 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 01-10-1986
  New shop front as amended by drawings 20/11/86.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/86/836
  88 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 02-12-1986
  New shop front.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/86/896/LB
  1st and 2nd Floors 88 High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 10-12-1986
  Removal and reconstruction of front wall.
  
  
• Planning Application - F/97/315
  84-86 W H Smith Ltd High Street Newmarket Suffolk
  Application Registered 13-06-1997
  Display of internally illuminted fascia and projecting signs.
  
  
• Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Branch
  Newmarket Urban District Council Records
  Reference EF 506
• Addition of office, rear of shop, High St, for G. Simpson EF 506/6/1/J109 May 1893
• Shop front, High St, for George Simpson (William C. & A.S. Manning) EF 506/6/1/3/102 Feb 1898
• Glass covered way, rear of High St, for George Simpson EF 506/6/1/11/286 Jul 1906
• WC and drainage, rear of Hadley House, High St, for George Simpson EF 506/6/1/17/571 Oct 1920
  
  

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• Many thanks to Peter Norman for his details about the Newmarket Street Market Map 1904 and for his photos 'W.H. Smith c. 1990',
  'Simpson & Jeffery and Baxters c. 1985', 'Centre of High Street c.1910s', 'Journal Office c. 1900s' and 'from Sun Lane c. 1890s'.
  
  
• Many thanks to 'Old Newmarket' for the photos 'F.G. Simpson late 1940s', 'F.G. Simpson mid 1940s', 'George Simpson c. 1912' and 'Simpsons Stationers c. 1918'.