Memory Lane: Draper and milliner opened in Grantham in1885
George Burrell’s drapers and millinery shop was first opened in 1885 at 20 and 21 London Road.
As a young man, George had worked as a mercer’s assistant for Arthur Chambers on the Market Place.
George and his wife Ada lived above the shop, and in 1911 had two shop workers living with them, Ada Field, who was a milliner and Mary Worsdall, who was their shop assistant. Also living with them was Elizabeth Green their servant.
George and Ada had one surviving child, a son Roland Noel, known as Roel, born in 1892.
Like many young men, he served in the First World War and after the war settled in Lancashire, where he worked as a drapery and clothing agent.
The business advertised regularly in the Grantham Journal. In 1894 they advertised ‘Odourless Macintoshes’ for sale at 9s 11d.
They also had adverts for Pelisses, dresses, jackets, hats and bonnets, feathers and gloves, flowers and corsets, hosiery and umbrellas, silks and ribbons and prints and sateens. Their lace curtains were for sale for between 1s 11½ d and 21s per pair.
