Commercial Development
Residents needed 'infrastructure' so a commercial centre was created with shops, followed by schools and churches. Photographs of street scenes in Gerrards Cross from 1905 to 1960 have been obtained from several Archives and Private Collections for the Exhibition. Images of the early shops are shown together with a feature on the Trading Families of Bott, Roff and Worboys.
The Colston Family had an association with Gerrards Cross for 125 years. You will find their story and some photographs on a separate page. Click here.
The key early plans of the commercial area in the exhibit are:
| Plan 1450 | Station Parade, 56-66 Packhorse Road, designed by Kerkham Burgess & Myers, 1907 |
| Plan 1337 | 38-40 Packhorse Road, designed by Kerkham Burgess & Myers, 1907 |
| Plan 1441 | Orchehill Chambers, Station Parade, designed by Kerkham Burgess & Myers, 1907 |
| Plan 3418 | The Highway, 59-63, Packhorse Road, designed by J. Stanley Beard, 1924 |
| Plan 3864 | Cinema, Ethorpe Crescent, designed by J. Stanley Beard, 1925 |
| Plan 1473 | 34-44 Oak End Way, designed by Percy Hopkins, 1907 |
| Plan 5742 | Office for J.G. Hetherington, Packhorse Road, 1930 |
| Plan 5825 | Packhorse Inn, Packhorse Road. Alterations by J.C.F. James, 1931 |
| Plan 7/11/46 | The French Horn, Oxford Road, designed by Robert G. Muir, 1946 |
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