Bourke Rd store turns 70 this year
The Bourke Rd store Umina is turning 70 this year, and current owners Michelle and Matthew Overton are having a party.
"We will be having loads of giveaways," said Ms Overton.
She said the store was originally built as a house in the 1920s.
Owned by a Mr and Mrs Adams, they named it Plymouth, after Mrs Adams' home town.
In the mid-1950s, Mrs Adams started to purchase some ice-cream and bottles of drinks.
She put a sign up on the front fence advertising them.
"She later went to the old store in Woy Woy and purchased 50 pounds of groceries.
"Mr Adams made a shop front at the front of the house and put some groceries on the shelf and people started coming in one by one.
"And so began the Bourke Rd Store," said Ms Overton.
"The store has had many transformations from the early days selling groceries and deli products to the introduction of NSW Lotteries in 2007."
She said it had now been in the same family for 27 years.
"In 2020 Matt and I expanded the business from a basic general store to offer more."
It now has coffee, boutique sauces and condiments, homemade food, meat from a Saratoga butcher, giftware, deli, cheese and antipasto products.
"It has been completely renovated to become a trendy destination for people to visit," she said.
SOURCE:
Media release, 28 May 2024
Michelle Overton, Bourke Rd Store