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Victorian Bournemouth (93)
2nd Period

Victorian Bournemouth (93): grocers (1871)

Big brands. Rivalry. Mixed success. Introduction Victorian Bournemouth (93) explores the lives, commercial success, and trading conditions of people who sold groceries during 1871. Victorian Bournemouth (93): the grocery business (1) Joseph Mundell This man, a Scotsman, gardener’s son, had come to Dorset by 1851, where he had a grocery and ironmongery in Bere Regis. […]