South Yorkshire Times March 8, 1958

Conisbrough Tradesman
Finds Alternative Premises

Mr. Stanley G. Oldfield, of 2, Low Road, Conisbrough, who is shortly to lose his business through slum clearance, and was unsuccessful in his application for the tenancy of the Council-owned shop and flat at 21, Windmill Avenue, Conisbrough, if and when it becomes vacant, has now found alternative premises.

He is to move only 20 yards to his new shop premises at 2, Newhill, Conisbrough, but he said last night that the move would cost him about £600, and that he had been given £70 by the Council as compensation.

He said the move would “hit him hard” and to raise the money he would have to buy most of his new stock on credit.

“But for the goodwill of the wholsalers in letting me have a great deal of credit, I should not have been able to move,” he said. He is to rent the shop now run by Mr. Gordon C. Webster.

The £600 which he had to raise includes the cost of moving and business goodwill.

Mr. Oldfleld said he intended standing for election as an independent candidate in the East ward of Conisbrough in the May Council elections.

He said he had prepared a petition, signed by over 200 Conisbrough people, registering “the strongest possible protest” against the Council’s decision concerning the other tenancy.