Lost Shops 2024

First to go/change – Robert Dyas, Warwick Road. (Ryman one half, Robert Dyas, the other)
Estate Agents – Sheldon, Bosley & Knight – The Square
Pomeroys – Station Road (Rebranded as The Station House, February 2024)
RSPCA – Abbey End (Closed 30th July 2024)
Zizzi Italian at the Kings Arms – The Square (closed August 2024)

A great chippy gone – Now reborn as Captains Chippy

Lost Shops 2006-2011

Kenilworth Weekly News – Warwick Road
Spicers – The Square
William Hill Bookmakers – The Square (relocated into centre of the town)
Rayner – The Square
Old Emporium – The Square
Mark Jarvis Bookmakers and Crystal Take Away – Warwick Road.
It’s a Pound – Warwick Road.
Help The Aged – Warwick Road
Headquarters – Warwick Road
Halifax Estate Agency – Warwick Road
Castle Flowers – Smalley Place
Brambles Gift Shop – Smalley Place
Emerald’s Shoe Shop – Smalley Place

Disappearing Shops 2017-18

Lost Shops 2023

Station Road – Been in the town for 30 years – Arthur will be missed
The Square – Another bank gone – Closed August 2023
Warwick Road – Wasn’t a ‘Top Draw’ for long
Abbey End – Been in the town for 50 years
Station Road – Another shop that will be sorely missed – Been in the town for 12 years
Warwick Road – The restaurant with the ever changing name
Bridge Works, Farmer Ward Road – To be replaced by a car showroom?
Another carpet shop gone south or west – lasted near 10 years in the town
Sylvesters the Jewellers (Opened in 1965 – closed 24th December 2023)

Corner Seat Restaurant – By Cyril Hobbins

The Bow-Framed window was still present during the 2000s

Copyright Cyril Hobbins 2023

Buyrite – The End of ‘Aladin’s Cave’ – Arthur Harrison – 2023

Sent from (not too) Coventry

Shop to be Re-developed by Landlords

One of Buyrite’s shops in Talisman Square 2006/7

Wilco Did Buyrite a Favour

‘Wilco’s arrival did Arthur a favour

Kenilworth Vibes Goes ‘Viral’

Trading was extended by a month
Bye-Bye Arthur

Shutters Go Up

Empty (except for the till which they couldn’t sell)

May 2023

Boarded up – July 2023

H. H. Railton & Ernest Shrimpton

Nellie and Ernest in their younger days. (photo courtesy of Sally Taylor)
Shop at 6, The Square c1920s (photo courtesy of Sally Taylor)
Shop in New Street – year unknown (photo courtesy of Sally Taylor)
Present day (now a private house)
The Norvic Shoe Factory – c1961
Ernest is on the far left of the back row c1930s (photo courtesy of Sally Taylor)
Pet & Garden Supplies – c1997
Nellie and Ernest – 1963 (photo courtesy of Sally Taylor)
The Picture Shop – c2005
Tree House Book Shop – present day

Lost Shops 2013-14

Lost Shops 2015-16