Rick’s Dining Room at 120-124 Mitcham Road

Built as a terrace of three shops in 1913, No. 120 started as a store called Morley’s.  By 1920 it was J. Gunn & Co., a corn dealer’s selling grain, flour, rice, pulses and animal feed

In 1914 No. 122 was the Pavilion Corn Stores. Then Charles Adams, a former chef, ran it as a cooked meat shop.

No. 124 was a hairdresser’s until taken over by Frank Bywater & Son’s bakery in 1920; they had another branch at 164 Mitcham Road.  A.B. Hemmings, with over 80 bakeries, leased the shop from 1929.

In 1972 the premises were a wallpaper shop, Sunlight Laundries, and Costa’s boot and shoe repairers.

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