HomeMy WebLinkAboutVillage Squire, 1980-01, Page 12The White Carnation is an excellent example of imaginative
reuse of an old building for a new purpose. Today it's a popular
restaurant and nightspot. Once it was a creamery and cheese
factory.
September of 1977.
The time since then has been spent slowly changing the aim of
the business. At first there were the painful problems of getting
to know the business from the ground up. The old staff all left
with the ownership change and the Orrs had to start from scratch
to build a new one. In the early days it meant that without an
experienced confident staff, Sandra had to get involved in doing
nearly everything herself. Today they've slowly built up a staff of
more than a dozen experienced part time persons who can,
Sandra says, pretty well run the place without her, leaving her
time to worry about the business side of the operation.
There were other problems as well. Improvements had to be
made to satisfy health and safety officials. And there was the
switch from operating on a special occasion basis to a fully
10 Village Squire, January 1980
Not in Festival Square,
not in City Centre, not in Stratford Mall
... we're just in the most beautiful spot in the
whole of Stratford, near Waterloo Bridge, with a
view of the Avon.
That's just one difference between us and any
other bookshop - our prize location. [hen
there's our wide range of books -in fire ram-
bling rooms in the old Victorian house -on -the -
Park.
If you still don't know why our customers love
us so, come in and learn to love us too. We can't
get too much love! We're open Fridays till 9 p.m.
30 Waterloo South
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