Dover Street, Canterbury, KENT, CT1 3HD  (Show me directions) Show Map

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In 1986, I went with my parents to view their next potential business venture.

Dover Street Newsagents was a quintessential British shop, traditional to its English heritage, standing on a site that has been trading for hundreds of years. As we left, the current owner offered me an ice cream from the shop's freezer, and I was smitten! The idea of having a whole shop full of sweets in your front room was definitely my style of living!

24 years later, with my own husband, John and 3 children, we are continuing that lifestyle but with a twist! Our shop is still classically a newsagent, tobacconist and confectioner, but as competition of supermarkets and the decline of newspaper sales put pressure on small shops like us, we realised we had to do something different if we were to have any hope of handing down to our children.