Poulter's Store at 25 Railway Parade in Mount Lawley

This photograph was submitted to the History and Heritage awards 2020 with the following text:

Pouter's Store at 25 Railway Parade, Mt Lawley was a mixed business of Milk bar, Groceries and Greengroceries. Owned by my Grandparents, Wally and Carrie Poulter from 1930 until they retired in 1951. The family .... all 9 of them: 2 parents, 5 daughters, 1 son and a housemaid/nanny lived in accommodation at the rear half of the shop. There were only two bedrooms but an enclosed back veranda contained several bunkbeds. Wally had served in WW1 at Gallipoli but being too old for service in WW2, volunteered in the Home Guard, helping to protect the water supply at Kings Park.

Wally had a great sense of civic duty. When his daughter Margaret (my mother), was invited on board an English battleship (HMS ANSON) anchored at Gage Road, Fremantle in
January 1946. Grandpop asked her to get the home addresses from two sailors so that he could send their families food parcels as a way of thanks for their service to Britain.
Margaret continued to correspond with one family until they passed away around the year 2000. 

Wally and his daughter Margaret are photographed in front of the family shop holding food parcels, wrapped in recycled hessian sugarbags, ready to be posted to his relatives and also to the families of these two sailors back in Britain.