Silk mercer

Bridgwater 25.04 (8)

We always enjoy going to Bridgwater; although I’ve wandered up and down this road, the High Street, before, I’ve never noticed E.H.Hooper;  the shop is in a wonderful and elegant old building, and the sign above it says it is a ‘silk mercer and draper, millinery and mantles’. The building dates from the middle of the eighteenth century and originally the first floor was connected to the building across the passageway on the left and bridged the passageway which leads to the church. It became a shop at the end of the nineteenth century,.

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  1. A Bryant

    There has been some alterations to it but I think the doorway that marked the Link is still around. I’ll have to take a gander when I’m next there.
    Mind you, in the good old days, she was one of two haberdasher’s that used to live in the high street. The second has now moved into angel crescent.

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