Pile's Grocery Store, Preston
625 High Street, Preston
The store at 625 High Street Regent was to see a relatively high turnover of owners during the first quarter of the twentieth century before becoming the long running business of the Pike family.
Pre-First World War the store was operated by J. T. Coles before Councillor Edmund Allchin briefly operated it during the war. Later, Allchin Tonkin ran the business (from 1918 - 1920) before Charles Pike established himself there as a grocer
In the early 1930s the property was renumbered as 735 High Street Regent. The business - Regent Economic Stores - was opreated by Charles, and his son Charles Allan, until Charles Pile's death in 1945.
The business was closed down in 1971.
Sources
Sands and McDougall’s Melbourne and Suburban Directory 1864- 1974. [Microfiche]. (1974). Melbourne, Australia: Sands & McDougall.
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