24 Scotgate
24 Scotgate

The shop at 12 All Saints' Place was a bakers and confectioners from 1880 owned by George Higgs and known as Higgs Corner.

12 All Saints Place - Higgs
12 All Saints Place - Higgs
12 All Saints Place - Higgs
12 All Saints Place - Higgs

By 1901 his widow Fanny was running the business with the help of her unmarried daughter Elizabeth.

Alfred Harvey came to Stamford from Dorset as a journeyman baker and ran a bakers and confectioners business at 24 Scotgate. He married Frances Mary Higgs - another of Fanny's daughters.

When Elizabeth died in 1927, she left the business in All Saints Place to her sister and Frances's son, Arthur Reginald, ran the All Saints shop, now called Harveys Corner Cafe, as a bakery until his death in 1963.

Harveys Corner 1940s
Harveys Corner 1940s
Harveys Corner 1959
Harveys Corner 1959

Raymond Gurney then bought the shop at 24 Scotgate and the All Saints Place property ceased to be a bakery. Raymond Gurney had worked for the Co-op bakery prior to buying the shop which traded into the 1980s as a bakers and confectioners.

Businesses trading at 24 Scotgate

1901

Baker & Confectioner

1906

Baker & Confectioner

1911

Baker & Confectioner

1916

Baker & Confectioner

1923

Baker & Confectioner

1927

Baker & Confectioner

1933

Baker & Confectioner

1938

Baker & Confectioner

1950

Baker, Confectioner

1956

Baker, Confectioner

1960

Baker, Confectioner

1970

Baker, Confectioner

1976

Baker, Confectioner

1984

Baker, Confectioner

1990

Baker, Confectioner

2000

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