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Welcome |
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Thank-you for
visiting this site and I hope you obtain as much satisfaction from viewing it
as we had creating it. Whilst you may view and download the photographs on
this site for your own use and enjoyment, permission should be sought for re
use or financial gain. |
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History |
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Arthur Gordon Farrow
(Dick) started the business in 1919, firstly doing local service bus work and
the odd private hire, over the years this developed. In 1933 Arthur Gordon
(47) died leaving a widow Lillian Harriet Farrow and two sons Arthur Wesley
and John William (Jack). Widow Lillian ran the Pork Butchers shop at 11 Scalford Road, Melton Mowbray, the shop also served as
the booking office for the bus/coach business. Arthur and Jack took over the
running of the business operating out of the original garage in Pall Mall,
Melton Mowbray. Over the years the company increased in size and required
additional space and were able to purchase the adjoining Salvation Army Hall
and house and the Dog & Gun public House to the right of Pall Mall
Garage. They operated from these premises until 1972 when the Pall Mall depot
was compulsory purchased for the development of flats. Moving then to a
disused British Railway Goods Shed at the top of North Street, Melton which
was part of the old Northern Station complex, remaining there until a new
garage building was erected on the site. Arthur Farrow passed away in 1978 and
John (Jack) Farrow passed away in 1979. The business was taken over by Peter
John Farrow, Jack's eldest son and Dennis Neal Farrow, Arthur's eldest son.
This partnership carried on until 1984 when Peter left the business. It was
then ran by Dennis & Sue Farrow until its demise
in 1994. |
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Acknowledgements & Thanks |
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I would like to
thank all those people who have generously given photographs, historical and technical
information. However I wish to especially thank my two sons Mark & Simon
for without their help I would not have got this site going. |
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Change History |
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9th May 2009 - Site Created/Published 16th March 2024 – photos added |
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Last Updated – 16th March 2024 |
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