This view of Boagey’s shop in Redcar is much changed from the present day situation on the corner of Millbank Terrace in Redcar, at the junction with Station Road and Coatham Road. The shop front has changed and is now Marco’s 2 takeaway, but the ironwork has not been lost and is now stored at Kirkleatham Museum. Owen Rooks advised: “This is definitely Redcar; the Evening Gazette ”Remember When” of July 2010, where ’Then and Now’ photographs included this end of Station Road.”
Image courtesy of Mike Holliday, thanks to Fred Brunskill, Mark T. and Owen Rooks for the updates.
Well as my parents came from redcar, I am guessing as my surname is Boagey this must have been one of my great grand parents never new the shop existed what was the date would be interested in more information
Boagey’s shop was a grocery shop, but it was special. It stocked the kind of food that today would be found in a a ‘Deli’. My mother went there from Saltburn for hard to find ingredients. I particularly remember proper unpasteurised Camembert cheese, which very rapidly became over ripe and smelled like old socks.It was just like they ate it in France, delicious. There was true unsalted Normandy butter. The shop stocked all kinds of herbs and spices that we thought unusual in the late fifties and are now stocked in good supermarkets. I had wonderful ‘squigie’ dried bananas from there.They still remain hard to find today. This was a very ‘upmarket’ shop, before the word was invented.