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9 Suffolk Road (formerly 7, Suffolk Road) Cheltenham Mercury, 3rd July 1880
In 1867 Mr George Tillion, a pork butcher, occupied these premises but by the 1870s the trade had changed to a grocery, as it was to remain for about the next 80 years.
The first grocer was Mr Parsons and he was replaced by George Russell in 1880. In 1883 Mr Russell was paying a yearly rental of £20 for the shop and in the following year his daughter Fanny Emily was born here.  Photo by courtesy of Daniel Keenan
In about 1892 the shop was taken over by a grocer called Henry Holloway. Mr Holloway died in the 1930s and was succeeded by his wife, who continued the grocery business until the early 1950s. Their son Keith Holloway continued to live here as a recluse, with the old shop adverts and goods gathering dust in the window, until at least 1973. Since 1995 the shop has belonged to Daniel Keenan, a bespoke furniture maker and interior designer. Daniel was born in Cheltenham in 1956 and started to learn his trade in 1972, when he joined Cavendish House. He moved to London a few years later and became self-employed before moving back to Cheltenham. The business at 7 Suffolk Road initially traded as the Upholstery Shed and now as Daniel Keenan Interiors, with a furniture workshop in Mead Road, Leckhampton. Research: Stuart Manton (Oct 2017)
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