At the corner of Pratt Road and Cromwell Road a house and shop was built for Mr. W. Chettle on plot 77 in 1890. A second plot adjoining was to be a yard and storage. Below the house there was a cellar and another beneath the shop.

The shop entrance was on the corner, with the house entrance in Pratt Road. The house had a parlour above the cellar, a living room beyond, and a kitchen was behind the shop, with a window fronting Cromwell Road. Stairs to the bedrooms were between the living room and kitchen, with a large walk-in pantry beyond.

William Chettle, grocer, and Sarah his wife lived and traded at the corner of Pratt Road and Oliver Cromwell Road. In 1891 their son Walter, aged 14, was already a photographer. Walter took a shop at 22 Higham Road by 1898 and set up a photography studio.

William Tomkins left 24 Higham Road in 1909, and Walter's brother William Horace took the shop and traded there as a hairdresser and tobacconist's.