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 '''A COAL and CARRIER BUSINESS'''   He bought a horse and cart and started a coal business, collecting the coal from the goods yard at Princes Risborough and later he bought a second horse and cart, employing Harry Gomme as driver and started a general carrying trade.   He carried parcels to and from both Princes Risborough and High Wycombe stations.
-[[File:Lily Brazier.jpg|left|thumb]]
+[[File:Lily Brazier.jpg|left|thumb|Lily Brazier, one of the three orphans George and Annie adopted.]]
-[[File:Beehives Family Floyds Shop.jpg|thumb]]
+[[File:Beehives Family Floyds Shop.jpg|thumb|Beehives behind Floyd's Stores]]
 '''OUTSIDE CATERING'''   He undertook outside catering for such functions as the Chapel outings, where Mrs Thomas, (their daughter Annie) recalled serving tea, lemonade, ginger beer, cakes and buns from trestle tables at Whiteleaf.

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 '''A COAL and CARRIER BUSINESS'''   He bought a horse and cart and started a coal business, collecting the coal from the goods yard at Princes Risborough and later he bought a second horse and cart, employing Harry Gomme as driver and started a general carrying trade.   He carried parcels to and from both Princes Risborough and High Wycombe stations.
 [[File:Lily Brazier.jpg|left|thumb]]
 '''OUTSIDE CATERING'''   He undertook outside catering for such functions as the Chapel outings, where Mrs Thomas, (their daughter Annie) recalled serving tea, lemonade, ginger beer, cakes and buns from trestle tables at Whiteleaf.

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 '''A COAL and CARRIER BUSINESS'''   He bought a horse and cart and started a coal business, collecting the coal from the goods yard at Princes Risborough and later he bought a second horse and cart, employing Harry Gomme as driver and started a general carrying trade.   He carried parcels to and from both Princes Risborough and High Wycombe stations.
+[[File:Lily Brazier.jpg|left|thumb]]
 '''OUTSIDE CATERING'''   He undertook outside catering for such functions as the Chapel outings, where Mrs Thomas, (their daughter Annie) recalled serving tea, lemonade, ginger beer, cakes and buns from trestle tables at Whiteleaf.

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 [[File:Annie Daisy and Annie Floyd.jpg|left|thumb|Annie with Daisy and Annie]]
 '''The family moved into the Loosley Row Stores''' after giving the tenant Mr Harvey notice and waiting some time before he went.   It became known as “'''Floyd’s Stores'''”.   They continued with the shop with all the usual groceries and provisions, sweets and tobacco.   They also sold some hardware such as bass brooms, besoms, tea pots and other crockery, coal shovels, needles, cotton and darning wool.   Annie paid great attention to the window displays.   It became the children's duty to dress the windows, turning everything out at regular intervals so that they could be cleaned and polished inside and out.   The window, nearest the chapel next door, had shelves loaded with rows of large sweet jars.   The other window display varied with the season.   In spring a large display of garden seeds from John Walkers, nurseryman and seedsman at Thame, for which they had the agency.   At Christmas a colourful show of toys and decorations were the attraction.
-[[File:Pig Slaughter.jpg|thumb]]
+[[File:Pig Slaughter.jpg|thumb|Pig killing with Bill the butcher]]
 '''George developed other enterprises''' in conjunction with the shop.   He kept and fattened pigs and also bought fat pigs for slaughter.   Annie cured the bacon and the hams and ran down the lard, all of which they sold in the shop.   Every market day he would collect fish and newspapers from High Wycombe.
 '''A COAL and CARRIER BUSINESS'''   He bought a horse and cart and started a coal business, collecting the coal from the goods yard at Princes Risborough and later he bought a second horse and cart, employing Harry Gomme as driver and started a general carrying trade.   He carried parcels to and from both Princes Risborough and High Wycombe stations.

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 [[File:Annie Daisy and Annie Floyd.jpg|left|thumb|Annie with Daisy and Annie]]
 '''The family moved into the Loosley Row Stores''' after giving the tenant Mr Harvey notice and waiting some time before he went.   It became known as “'''Floyd’s Stores'''”.   They continued with the shop with all the usual groceries and provisions, sweets and tobacco.   They also sold some hardware such as bass brooms, besoms, tea pots and other crockery, coal shovels, needles, cotton and darning wool.   Annie paid great attention to the window displays.   It became the children's duty to dress the windows, turning everything out at regular intervals so that they could be cleaned and polished inside and out.   The window, nearest the chapel next door, had shelves loaded with rows of large sweet jars.   The other window display varied with the season.   In spring a large display of garden seeds from John Walkers, nurseryman and seedsman at Thame, for which they had the agency.   At Christmas a colourful show of toys and decorations were the attraction.
+[[File:Pig Slaughter.jpg|thumb]]
 '''George developed other enterprises''' in conjunction with the shop.   He kept and fattened pigs and also bought fat pigs for slaughter.   Annie cured the bacon and the hams and ran down the lard, all of which they sold in the shop.   Every market day he would collect fish and newspapers from High Wycombe.
-'''Everyone watches the spectacle of the pig killing with Bill the Butcher.'''
+'''Pig killing with Bill the Butcher.'''
 '''A COAL and CARRIER BUSINESS'''   He bought a horse and cart and started a coal business, collecting the coal from the goods yard at Princes Risborough and later he bought a second horse and cart, employing Harry Gomme as driver and started a general carrying trade.   He carried parcels to and from both Princes Risborough and High Wycombe stations.

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 '''Annie Janes''' born 1865 was the daughter of  [[Henry & Mary Janes]]
+[[File:Annie Nancy Harmon.jpg|left|thumb]]
 '''George and Annie had 3 Children as follows :-'''
 [[File:Annie & Daisy Floyd.jpg|thumb|Annie and Daisy Floyd outside the stores.]]

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 This brick and flint cottage on [[Lower Road]], Loosley Row was built in 1864 by Henry Janes.   The cottage had a bread oven and grocery shop.  When Henry died he left his Lacey Green bakery to his son Hezekiah.   The Loosley Row Shop and Lane Cottages nearby, he left to his daughter Annie.
-[[File:Annie Daisy and Annie Floyd.jpg|left|thumb]]
+[[File:Annie Daisy and Annie Floyd.jpg|left|thumb|Annie with Daisy and Annie]]
 '''The family moved into the Loosley Row Stores''' after giving the tenant Mr Harvey notice and waiting some time before he went.   It became known as “'''Floyd’s Stores'''”.   They continued with the shop with all the usual groceries and provisions, sweets and tobacco.   They also sold some hardware such as bass brooms, besoms, tea pots and other crockery, coal shovels, needles, cotton and darning wool.   Annie paid great attention to the window displays.   It became the children's duty to dress the windows, turning everything out at regular intervals so that they could be cleaned and polished inside and out.   The window, nearest the chapel next door, had shelves loaded with rows of large sweet jars.   The other window display varied with the season.   In spring a large display of garden seeds from John Walkers, nurseryman and seedsman at Thame, for which they had the agency.   At Christmas a colourful show of toys and decorations were the attraction.

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 '''George and Annie had 3 Children as follows :-'''
-[[File:Annie & Daisy Floyd.jpg|thumb|Daisy and Annie Floyd outside the stores.]]
+[[File:Annie & Daisy Floyd.jpg|thumb|Annie and Daisy Floyd outside the stores.]]
 '''Daisy Floyd''' born 1893