Description:This view of the centre of Upper Tean shows the Bon Marche General Store on the right angle bend of the old A50 road (now the A522). To the right is Uttoxeter Road, and behind the camera is the High Street, leading to Stoke-on-Trent. Hollington Road, in the centre of the picture continues the line of the High Street and the former Roman road to Rocester and Derby (Derventio). The Bon Marche shop was bought by William Henry Johnson, who had previously worked in the Tape Mill around 1905. At the same time he acquired the "Quiet Woman" public house, which was part of the tall building next door in Hollington Road, and closed it.
The shop was a general store, one of several in the village. W.H. Johnson's daughter Beatrice worked here, and later when she became Mrs Farmer, she and her husband suceeded her father in 1914. When they retired in 1936, Beatrice's brother took over the shop, and re-named it "Bon Marche".
Next door to the right of the shop was a draper's.
In 1986, Bon Marche, by then an off-licence, was partly demolished by a lorry. The remaining part of the building then remained derelict for several years, before restoration work began to rebuild the shop as a dwelling.
The buildings on the left of the entrance to Hollington Road, a blacksmith's shop, "The Blacksmith's Arms", and two houses were pulled down in 1967.