GRANGE is one of few towns not to have a supermarket on its doorstep and retains a wide range of shops largely along Main Street and Kents Bank Road.

This selection of pictures, from the Mail’s archive, are from the 1940s to the 1990s and give a taste of what Grange could offer to shoppers.

We have taken a look through the trade directory pages of Mason’s Grange and District Red Book to see how things had changed since 1932.

One name familiar to shoppers in the 1930s and more recent times is Trenouth’s.

Edward Trenouth in 1932 was a gentleman’s hatter, hosier, outfitter and tobacconist at Main Street.

It was an agent for Jaeger, Aertex and Burberry.

The Maddock’s Mikado café on Main Street had tea rooms facing the sea and also sold cakes and pastries, cigarettes and sweets which were made on the premises.

F. Robinson, at the Old Police Station, bought and sold antiques and curios.

Harry Midgley, of Hampton House, on Kents Bank Road, was a hairdresser but also made and repaired umbrellas.

Daish’s started business in 1844 and were tea and coffee specialists on Main Street with the easy-to-remember telephone number of 17.

Eunice Westwood taught piano by the Matthay Method at Grayrigg Villas.

The Grange Gas Company had its offices and showroom at Yewbarrow Terrace which offered the latest in water heaters and portable fires which could be connected to the nearest gas point.

The butcher and ham curer John Asplin had his shop at Main Street.

Fresh cream cakes were available daily from the Danum confectionery firm on the corner of Kents Bank Road.

S.Duckworth had his Central Garage on Station Road which was an agent for Morris and Rover cars.

Grange still had a shoeing and general blacksmith called T. W. Walker at Windermere Road.

He made gates, repaired lawn mowers and swept chimneys.

Moore and Sharp at Crown Hill, opposite the Palace cinema, had fish, fruit and poultry.

“It also offered: “Ribbits, in season, fresh daily from the fells.”