Overys Greengrocers, 56 Ashton Road, Rear View - Ghost Sign

The rear has the cheerful slogan “Drink and Enjoy,” which would not have won the approval of the temperance movement of the time. It’s a shame someone has constructed a window right in the middle of the slogan.

Having sold ”eggs, butter and groceries” in Hockliffe of 1890, the 1911 census shows that William Overy worked in the Luton shop with his son Walter.