Haldens Shopping Parade
What's changed? Comparing 1970 and 2010
By Susan Hall
The photos of Haldens Shopping Parade were taken in 1970’s and 2010.
In the first photo the shops in the 1970’s were:
Fine Fare Supermarket
Kershaw Hardware
Chemist and Sub Post Office
Hairdresser
Newsagent
Possibly a Wool shop
Bakers
(More shops past the bakers were, Co-op supermarket then the rent office.)
The same row in 2010 (third photo) are:
Nisa Supermarket
Ladbrooks bookmakers
Lloyds Chemist
Florist
Martins Newsagents
Raj Gardens Indian restaurant/takeaway
(More shops past the Indian are, the Bakers, Chinese Takeawy, Chinese Restaurant, Carpet shop.)
In the second photo the shops in the 1970’s were:
(Fine Fare Supermarket)
Haldens Fisheries
Carley’s Fish Reataurant
Ken Green Motor Cycles
Midland Bank
Off licence
Mayflower Public House
The same row in 2010 (fourth photo down) are:
(Nisa Supermarket)
Haldens Fisheries
Zips N Clips Haberdashers
Tiffins Hairdressers
Beautyworks tanning and beauty salon
Cakes and sugarcraft
Mayflower Public House
You can also see that the advertising dome has gone in 2010.
There are a lot more cars around in 2010 and the shopping parade is a thriving area of Welwyn Garden city.
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Ken Green sold me my first moped I had it serviced and m.o.t there plus a couple of other bikes later on. I used to go to the fish and chip shop on Fridays for my Dad
the wool shop was junes drapery who also sold some clothes and habadashery/ newsagents was flynns. veg shop after hardware shop was fruit and veg all great shops
My mother in law worked at Kershaws for years (Chris Cook). There used to be a greengrocers in the 1970s as I had a Saturday job there. I remember my mum taking me into the wool shop. And Co-op Green Shield Stamps!
The Hairdressers was called HI-STYLE. FYI
My parents owned the Hairdressers both Ladies and Gents, so if you ever had your hair cut, it would have been by them.
Was there ever a butchers shop at Haldens?
Does anyone remember a supermarket or small shop with a daisy logo in the late 1960s? It was possibly at Haldens or Panshanger shops as we lived in Panshanger. It’s driving me mad because I was 2 and a half and have very vague memories of this shop and I have noone left in the family to ask. I also have a vague memory of one of those wind vanes where the man is chopping the wood and that was possibly being sold at the Kershaw’s hardware shop? and I saw as I was going into the supermarket next door.
I worked at Kershaw’s between about 1975 and 1979. I remember Harry and Violet with fondness. I last saw Harry on a walk around 1993.
My dad’s shop at Haldens was Kershaws Hardware, my maiden name. I like to think Dad kept a good stock including Paraffin, wallpaper, paint, crockery etc. He had the shop I think, between the mid 1960s to maybe the early 80s – can’t be certain of the dates. He also at some time owned the Hardware shop at Shoplands. My mum worked in the shop too.
I lived in knightsfield since 1959 and got my first moped from ken green in 1973 a Garelli Tiger cross does anyone know what happened to ken? i think his brother was the mechanic.
I lived near Shoplands, but Haldens was where I was taken to get my hair cut in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
In 1976 I bought my first motorcycle from Ken Green himself, a year later it needed an MOT – the test was different to today, involving checking the lights worked then the mechanic rode the bike up and down the yard at the back as fast as he could go towards a wall to check the brakes worked – the test is a little more rigorous today.
I had a secondary school friend that use to live in Haldens back in the late 1960s & early 1970s and apart from visiting the area a couple of times it wasn’t an area of WGC that i knew to well. I vaguely recall walking a long the Haldens shopping parade around the sametime as the top picture was taken in 1970.
I moved to Rosedale when I was nearly 2 years old. My first memories of the shops at Haldens are Mayflower Pub, Off Licence, Midland Bank, Ken Green Cycles and Motorcycles, Carleys Fisheries, Kays Supermarket, Kershaws, Chemist/Sub Post Office, Greengrocers, Flynns Newsagents, Mens hairdressers, Ladies Hairdressers, Haberdashery, Co-op and the rent office. The owner of the haberdashery turned it into the bakery at a later date.