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Park Road, Lower Gornal
 Park Buildings, Park Road, derelict shops 2007
Photo CDM 2007
A row of six shops at the end of Park Road, built in the late 1950s by Tomlinson Bros of Sedgley.
Serving the Stickley Estate, these shops were once thriving with fish & chip shop, butchers, hairdressers, hardware, grocery and a clothes shop. They had become neglected by the 1990's and an eyesore during their later years.  New bungalows that replaced the shops in Park Road.
Photo CDM 2014
During the 1960s, the clothes and wool shop at the near end was run by the parents
of the BBC reporter and presenter, Sue Lawley.
Above the shops were Council owned maisonettes. The entrance to the maisonettes was at
the rear of the building in Park House Gardens.
The shops were demolished in 2008 and the plot was vacant for a couple of years.
In 2011, work started on redevelopment.
Six modern one bedroom bungalows now occupy this site. The red post box has also gone.
The Ellowes pub - later renamed The Spriggers Arms, once stood opposite and suffered the same plight.
The pub was built in the early sixties and was demolished by the end of the century.
Applications were invited by the Council in 1962 for the tenancy of one lock-up shop, known as No.3 Park Buildings at a rental of £126 per annum.
The other five shops were already taken and trading:-
[1]: Ladies & childrens outfitter, drapery, linen, haberdashery and soft furnishings.
[2]: Newsagent, tobacconist, stationery, toys, confectionery and sweets [3]: - [4]: Ladies hairdresser, cosmetics & ladies toilet requisites. [5]: Pork butcher & cooked meats. [6]: Wet & fried fish.  c1960 - just after completion.
The following businesses were trading in the block in the 1980s.
[1]: Clothes & wool shop.
[2]: Arthur Turley, groceries. [3]: Hardware & video store. [4]: Hairdressers. [5]: Don Lloyd, butchers shop. [6]: Bill & Mary's fish & chip shop  Rear of Park Buildings in Park House Gardens - the six vacant council owned maisonettes.
photo CDM 2007
The above photo looks along Park House Gardens off Ellowes Road at the rear of the building. All residents had been removed and the building is getting ready for demolition. The road at the rear has now disappeared.
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