06. ALDISSWJ Aldiss opened a drapery shop in Norwich Street in 1872. The business expanded and moved to Upper Market where Hodgett had traded. In the late 1920s the shop was given an Art Deco Front and the business temporarily moved to the British School.
At the end of the last century, Aldiss moved its various shops around the town to its present Superstore in one of the Printing Works sites in Oxborough Lane. The building, leased to The Original Factory Shop, was destroyed by fire in 2014. Still owned by the Aldiss family happily it has been rebuilt in a Georgian style as a shop with apartments above. 
All that was left of the building following the devastating fire of 2014.
The remaining part of the Art Deco Front was unsafe and sadly had to be demolished.
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Aldiss was and still is the main department store in the town. They also have a large outlet in Norwich.
The Art Deco frontage with later windows below.
Now go through the archway to the Church. |
