Baslow Village Shop & Post Office

Village shopping is often regarded as lost forever. but curiously in Baslow it still thrives. Find out why.

NOTE. If you refer to the map to locate our shop - the map is wrong but cannot be altered. The shop is situated at the junction of Over Lane (not Over Road) with School Lane.
This profile will show you all about Baslow village shop and Post Office. The shop trades under the SPAR brand but is entirely owned and run by the Upton family - husband and wife Christine & David and their son David and daughter Emily. Other staff work alongside the family who have owned the business since 2003.
The shop business started life in the late 1930's in the kitchen of the cottage beside the shop. That business grew to a point where it became necessary to take over the front room in which a counter was built just inside the room. More than three customers and others had to queue on the garden path. As the cottage became ever more taken over with stock, it was eventually decided a purpose-built shop was the answer and so in the late 1950's the cottage garden was cleared and an outbuilding demolished to make room for the new building. This went up in the very early 1960's but was almost immediately recognized as being too small and so 2 /3 years later the building was doubled in size to what we have today.
The shop served the community well and survived while others - curiously situated on the main road through the village passed away. By 2002 the elderly lady owner knew it was time to step down and so the business was put on the market at which point Christine and David showed an interest and eventually went on to purchase the business and site which includes the cottage in which the business was first started. Today this cottage is a very popular two bed-roomed holiday cottage.