Stores at Pin Mill

[Leighb]

A heads up for anyone cruising to Pin Mill/Woolverstone. The village general store/butchery at Chelmondiston "Hollingsworths" is currently closed "Until further notice".

I hope this may save someone from a disappointing walk up the lane. The paper shop a few yerds to the West on main road does sell some essentials such as bread milk eggs etc so there is still a shop, but not such variety.

A gig loss to the local community and we all hope it might reopen.

 

[DanTribe]

A heads up for anyone cruising to Pin Mill/Woolverstone. The village general store/butchery at Chelmondiston "Hollingsworths" is currently closed "Until further notice".

I hope this may save someone from a disappointing walk up the lane. The paper shop a few yerds to the West on main road does sell some essentials such as bread milk eggs etc so there is still a shop, but not such variety.

A gig loss to the local community and we all hope it might reopen.

That's a pity, it was a good shop. I assume that the locals shop at a superstore and the weekenders bring their stuff with them. These little businesses can't survive on the few bits that yachties can carry back to their boats.
The little stores in Waldringfield used to be one of my favourites.
I don't want to be a harbinger of doom, but the Budgens in Wood bridge was less than vibrant recently.

 

[Leighb]

The sad thing is that you are probably right in the main, however there are a large number of elderly locals who depended on the shop and any alternative is a bus ride and a whole day out away in Ipswich. There is a Co-op and a butchers in Holbrook but you can't get there by bus (except by a very longwinded route). The Suffolk Food Hall is excellent in it's way but very expensive, and doesn't sell general household stuff such a loo rolls etc.

We used it a lot, but did a big shop in Ipswich weekly so I suppose are as guilty as any?

 

[greylag]

That's a pity, it was a good shop. I assume that the locals shop at a superstore and the weekenders bring their stuff with them. These little businesses can't survive on the few bits that yachties can carry back to their boats.
The little stores in Waldringfield used to be one of my favourites.
I don't want to be a harbinger of doom, but the Budgens in Wood bridge was less than vibrant recently.

Budgens is a Sainsbury in waiting.

 

[Hadenough]

Budgens is a Sainsbury in waiting.

Once the council get their sh*t together about car parking.

 

[pvb]

The sad thing is that you are probably right in the main, however there are a large number of elderly locals who depended on the shop and any alternative is a bus ride and a whole day out away in Ipswich. There is a Co-op and a butchers in Holbrook but you can't get there by bus (except by a very longwinded route). The Suffolk Food Hall is excellent in it's way but very expensive, and doesn't sell general household stuff such a loo rolls etc.

We used it a lot, but did a big shop in Ipswich weekly so I suppose are as guilty as any?

There's a reasonable little stores in Shotley, which is quite close and served by bus.

 

[Leighb]

There's a reasonable little stores in Shotley, which is quite close and served by bus.

True, the PO in Shotley does have a fair amount, but not I think fresh meat or vegetables, however the bus service is pretty infrequent . I assume you are referring to the PO is Shotley Village, not the one in Shotley Gate which closed a while back.

 

[Boz]

I Have only seen it in passing (on the bus), but does the farm shop behind the Pub not stock meat & veg etc?

 

[pvb]

True, the PO in Shotley does have a fair amount, but not I think fresh meat or vegetables, however the bus service is pretty infrequent . I assume you are referring to the PO is Shotley Village, not the one in Shotley Gate which closed a while back.

Yes, Shotley village. There are about 6 buses a day.

 

[Leighb]

I Have only seen it in passing (on the bus), but does the farm shop behind the Pub not stock meat & veg etc?

Not sure where you mean, but there is no farm shop in Chelmondiston, i.e. within walking distance from Pin Mill or Woolverstone.

 

[Boz]

No Sorry, Shotley Gate behind the Bristol Arms....

 

[TimfromMersea]

No Sorry, Shotley Gate behind the Bristol Arms....

I'm afraid the Shotley Gate stores and PO, up the hill from the Bristol Arms, closed down some while ago. AFAIK there's no stores nearer than Shotley Village, although the marina shop has a limited stock of tinned stuff and toiletries etc.

 

[pvb]

I'm afraid the Shotley Gate stores and PO, up the hill from the Bristol Arms, closed down some while ago. AFAIK there's no stores nearer than Shotley Village, although the marina shop has a limited stock of tinned stuff and toiletries etc.

As Boz posted, there's now a "farm shop" in the shed next to the Bristol Arms.

 

[TimfromMersea]

Oh - I see - misunderstood what he said.

Good news that there might be somewhere else for 'ships stores'. There's not many places on the Orwell within walking distance of the marinas, at least not until you get up to Ipswich.

 

[Hydrozoan]

Many thanks – sad news about Hollingsworth’s: it seems only a few years since he retired. We’ve used the shop a lot, and popping in for their free range chickens for ourselves and daughters on the way back from the boat has been our custom for many years. (Not to mention the sausages – and a convenient haircut across the road!) Please let us know if the situation changes.