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Karn's Store and Thursley Stores

Nov 14, 2023
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Updated: Aug 10


Alan Karn's baker's cart driven by Drew Milton, the roundsman. Jim Christmas's father was the baker.
Alan Karn's baker's cart driven by Drew Milton, the roundsman. Jim Christmas's father was the baker.
Alan Karn married Mary Barnard on September 18, 1902. Mary lived in Hindhead Nursery (now Upper Ridgeway Farm), but everyone knew her as "Auntie Jum" as in Jumbo.
Alan Karn married Mary Barnard on September 18, 1902. Mary lived in Hindhead Nursery (now Upper Ridgeway Farm), but everyone knew her as "Auntie Jum" as in Jumbo.
Betty Karn
Betty Karn
From the 1936 Register of Electors
From the 1936 Register of Electors
This brief history of Karn's store (continued below) was published in the Parish Magazine in May 1978 and in 'Lives of the People of Thursley' by The History of Thursley Society in 1996
This brief history of Karn's store (continued below) was published in the Parish Magazine in May 1978 and in 'Lives of the People of Thursley' by The History of Thursley Society in 1996

Karn's Grocery shop. You can see the poplar tree which was a major landmark especially from the common.



Alan and Sid Karn in the third photograph


Karn's shop with Mrs Karn outside
Karn's shop with Mrs Karn outside

Karn's Grocer shop, 1897


The Christmas family including Jim as a young boy

From Thursley Today, 1965 (see separate entry)
From Thursley Today, 1965 (see separate entry)


Year unknown, illustration by Salli Tomlinson
Year unknown, illustration by Salli Tomlinson
The Old Stores in 2009
The Old Stores in 2009
The Old Stores c2020 from sale particulars
The Old Stores c2020 from sale particulars

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