Description:Elizabeth Moulton's (nee Sillitoe) millinery shop at Cromwell House, High Street, Eccleshall. Elizabeth's mother, Helen, had a drapery business in the High Street in 1901 and Elizabeth's grandfather, Thomas Sillitoe, was a a draper and general dealer in Eccleshall High Street in 1881.
Mrs Moulton died in 1952 aged 76 and had run the shop as a milliners and stationers until illness the previous year forced her to retire, selling the business to her niece.
Image from 'Staffordshire Past and Present: An Historical Pictorial & Descriptive Guide' published in 1911 and edited by J.W. Bradley.