Community Store

Quarter in Lanarkshire

 

 

The Quarter Convenience Store is open for business  and the shelves are stacked with all the items you are likely to run out of.  You can purchase such items as papers, magazines, full range of toiletries, pet food, frozen food, bread, cakes, household goods, sweets , ice cream, cards and butcher meat supplied by Buchanan's and much, much more. 

Opening hours are :-

 

Monday to Saturday             7.00 a.m.—7.00 p.m.

Friday closed between              1 & 2.30 p.m.

Sunday                               7.00 a.m.—2.00 p.m.

 

Naz whose family has a shop in Stonehouse was originally from Glasgow and has a lot of experience in the retail trade.   

 

 

 

 

The Post Office

 

 The Post Office, as shown below, was originally built by Mr Ritchie in 1898 as a house and Post Office. His daughter, Jean, married Alexander Brownlie, who was himself a postman and they ran the Post Office until in 1965 the Post Office was taken over by Mr and Mrs Fallow. Mrs. Fallow was the Sub-Postmistress and after four years resigned from the post. This was partly due to being attacked by an intruder with a knife who broke in at the back door. Mrs Fallow, although shaken, was unhurt and drove the attacker off with a saucepan. However the experience, understandably, blighted her enjoyment of working in the Post Office and in 1973 they sold the Post Office. Mr Fallow, who was brought up in the Gate House of the Fairholm Estate by the River Avon, worked for a time at East Crookedstone Farm in 1946 and was a founder member of the Hamilton and District Young Farmers club. They have now retired to Coatbridge but still have fond memories of Quarter. The house was bought by Mrs Furley, with the Post Office moving to the General Store next door, owned by Mr Conway. The store has since been converted into flats and a small shop and Post Office added onto the side of the building.