Shops and Businesses of Pannal Past

Now 2012 we have two shops one a post office at the top of Station Road the other also in Station Road a hairdressers. The hairdressers was Walkers butcher and fruit and veg before that Pannal Fisheries. The post office used to be in Main Street many years ago then it was on Hillside Road before moving to its present position. Last century we had Rhodes Cafe at Spacey Houses, Pannal Cycle Depot at Spacey Houses and a fish and chip shop there. Petrol Station next to Spacey Houses Farm and also another one next to Spacey Houses public house (now demolished and a car showroom there) Pannal Auction Market was cattle then latterly auctioned cars - it was on the corner of Follifoot Road then next to Spacey Houses Farm. (Spacey Houses is at the top of Pannal Village on the A61) Grocery Shop/Bakery/Cafe at 3 Station Road. Central Stores on the Crimple Bridge now a private house. Old butchers shop on Pannal Green alongside blacksmith's shop. Listers Filling Station still a filling station on the A61. Brookside Nurseries still there. Chapel and Son nurserymen then Leeds Road Garden Centre gone now Antique Centre. Harrogate Caravan Distributors at Spacey Houses and also Caravans for sale on Mill Lane. Sheepskin Products Mill Lane, Kennel Nutrition Far end of Mill Lane. Stockdale Millers had a mill, now demolished in Malthouse Lane, Batchelors Nurseries top of Spring Lane at Daw Cross, Miss Campbell Nurseries Hill Top Lane. Burn Bridge is next to Pannal and there was a blacksmiths then a grocery shop then restaurants - Le Provencal, Four Seasons, Roman Court. Bintex then Dunlopillo now a light industrial area but there is now a cafe. Demaines Garage was in Brackenthwaite Lane and Kennings Garage corner of Rossett Green Lane/Yew Tree Lane. Nettleton Quarry Owners who finished in about 1930. Nursery/Veg garden corner of Main Street and Pannal Green. Mrs Lydia Ward's shop now Lydia Cottage Main Street. Pannal stationmasters house and booking office changed to Platform One public house now The Harwood. Black Swan public House, Burn Bridge still there.Pannal Golf Club there since 1906. Really a very busy village not so busy now unfortunately as one does not meet villagers "going to the shops".