SHOP BLOCK SOLD

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29832, 26 May 1962, Page 10

SHOP BLOCK SOLD

Price Nearly £30,000

Lonsdale’s Buildings, a property comprising five shops and a two-storeyed brick house on 14 perches at the south-east corner of Worcester and Manchester streets, was sold yesterday for about £30,000

The sale was made by private treaty. The name of the buyer has not been disclosed. The property was offered at a public auction on November 13, but was passed in. The'house was built about 1880 for the Atkinson family, which had a furniture business in Christchurch. When the property was bought by the Lonsdale family in 1919. the house was one of the few remaining in the city centre which had a garden facing the street. In that year, there was a cabbage tree on the street corner frontage. At present, the Lonsdale family business of opticians is still being carried on, in partnership, in one of the shops on the site. A cash order company, a tobacconist, and a boot repairer, are tenants in three of the other shops. One is vacant. The present tenants will not be disturbed, and the vacant shop will be made available for renting. The building had been in possession of the Lonsdale family for more than 40 years until the sale yesterday, made by Livingstone and Jones, Lang, Wootton.