Hanover Stores and Tea Rooms
A lynchpin of Brook life for 36 years was the village shop and tea rooms at Hanover House. In the spring of 1933 H & M Morris was formed.
With £25 borrowed from their mother Alice, Bert and Margaret bought a small amount of stock and opened the shop...
After the team shop was established, Hanover also opened as a tea room. Bert seeded the lawn ready for making a tea garden.
Walter Stone, a friend of Bert’s, joined the family ‘firm’ when he married Margaret. These two men were fitters and turners by trade...
A presentation on their retirement from Hanover Stores and Tea Garden was made to Mrs W J Stone and Mrs H F Morris by...