The Cottis garage and hardware store in the late 1940s. Credit: Gary Stone
Seen above in the late 1940s, the Cottis garage and hardware store was one of a number of businesses run by the Cottis family in Epping for almost 100 years.
The first store opened in the 1870s as an ironmongery.
By the 1960s the company had closed down.
How the scene looks today
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