Gibraltar Shop
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1900-1997
Gibraltar Shop
Mary Moorhouse's shop at 54 Gibraltar was just off the bottom left hand
corner of No. 40. She seems to have kept about everything that the 200 or
so inhabitants of the mill hamlet of Gibraltar, or Delph End, could
possibly ask for. As well as being a draper a grocer she was licensed to
sell beer, porter and tobacco, and a close look at her window shows that
she also stocked teapots, cooking pots, miscellaneous ornaments and
pictures, and lace. Notice the carefully carved lettering over the shop
window. The shop was later kept by 'Cider Annie', but as Gibraltar Mill
declined and eventually closed so the hamlet contracted and the customers
left. The shop was closed around 1970. Mary Moorhouse makes a trim figure
standing in her doorway with a leg o'mutton sleeved blouse, stays at their most
constricting and a brilliant white apron. Perhaps she was dressed
especially for the occasion. The shop has recently been converted into a
house which has totally changed the appearance of the building.
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