Maitlands

Entrance
By Jo Spence

Maitlands was a storage facility separate from the main store. Like Ebenezer House, entrance was via an old wooden staircase with a corrugated roof with scaffolding supports.

A surprise awaited new comers, a safe at the bottom of the stairs!

Inside, the building was a series of store rooms packed to the rafters with goods.

Photo:The entrance to Maitlands passage.
Photo:Maitlands building.
Photo:Staircase down to entrance.
Photo:A safe place for a safe?
Photo:Entrance to Maitlands.
Photo:Electric blankets stacked up along the entrance corridor.
This gallery was added by Jo Spence on 04/09/2007.

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I thought Maitlands was the name of the jewellers that moved to the top end of the town - perhaps that explains the safe?

By Jane Slatter
On 01/04/2008

Your correct Jane. Maitlands was previously the jewellers premises situated in Queens Road.

By Jo Spence
On 03/04/2008

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