Shops

OAKHAM. Allens (drapers). Cash carrier. H.Boynton

OAKHAM. G.George, High Street. "A shop which has become an Oakham institution is shortly to close after almost 100 years' service to the town - but the business which has been known as George's since 1911 has, in fact, been a draper's shop for much longer. The building, in Oakham High Street, was once a post office... The overhead cash carrier, originally leased in 1945 from the resoundingly-named British Cash and Parcel Conveyors Limited, was eventually bought by the Schofields in 1969 for just £3. Remarkably, it is still in working order and capable of whizzing cash and receipts, and returning change, to and from the tiny office at the back of the shop, although it is not used now." Rutland Times, 20 Mar. 1998, p. 5 (with photograph)
• Gipe system with one line in 1980. The shop closed in the late 1990s. When Lamsons stopped leasing systems, the shop bought it for a nominal sum (J. Liffen). Now in Rutland Museum but not on show. Shop is now Book World. (H.Boynton)