Frederick Cutmore ran his business at 11 New Road Ware from about 1910 to the early 1930s. This image from a directory shows them standing proudly outside in 1920.
Frederick was born in Thundridge in 1862 and became a bricklayer. He married Louisa Tillcock in 1881 and lived in Milton Road. On the 1911 census he was with Louisa, their son George, a painter and decorator and a lodger, Violet Mabel Walters, a shop assistant from Cornwall.
Louisa died in 1925 and Frederick in 1936. The next occupant of number 11 was Sam Bell.
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The son’s name was Frederick George, and he married Beatrice Barker, whose grandfather, Silas Barker, ran the Two Brewers down the road.