Competition has also increased from online garden centres such as Crocus, Greenfingers and Gardening Express, although companies such as Capital Gardens, Dobbies, Riverside Garden Centre and The Garden Centre Group have now responded by developing and marketing their own online operations.
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The garden centre at Milbury Heath has come under fire due the treatment of robins who were nesting there and were sometimes flying in the cafeteria section.
Purley Way Lido operated from 1935 to 1980; the diving board remains in the middle of a garden centre.
Not far down the road that skirts Sutton Farm, almost opposite Percy Thrower’s Garden Centre, is a mediaeval chapel, now used as Shrewsbury Greek Orthodox Church.
There is a small business park, known as Thurston Granary, located in the village and other businesses include Harvey's Garden Plants, a family-run garden centre/tea room that has won Gold Medals at Chelsea.
The garden centre was formally opened by Percy Thrower, the top national gardening celebrity of the 1970s.