Oxford Ghost Signs: Lyon's Tea at 15 Lake Street
A Packet for every Pocket
LYONS’
TEA
Always the Best
This sign made of enamelled metal probably dates from the 1950s
The photograph on the right shows the sign on the side of the former shop at 15 Lake Street (on the side of the shop facing Summerfield).
Here are some of the shopkeepers up to the time the shop closed in about 1965:
- 1899, 1916: Alfred Belcher
- 1930: Samuel Smith
- 1935, 1936: Mrs D. M. Darby
- 1941: Albert Gutteridge
- 1943, 1949: Mrs M. Gutteridge
- 1952: Ronald Grimshaw
- 1954: Mrs A. Woodford
- 1956–1964: William H. G. Plumley