Our picture this week features 39 New Canal, Salisbury.

When looking back to the 19th Century the picture is one of frequent change the building appears to have had new occupiers on a relatively regular basis.

In 1885, for example, a cabinetmaker named Henry John Silverthorne was trading at the address, but by 1888 it had become a 'toy repository' (a warehouse).

Then, in 1891, George Price moved in and opened up shop as a fruiterer another short lived occupancy.

A number of additional tenancy changes had occurred before the turn of the 20th Century, by which time Charles Harding had set up office there as a house agent, and he seems to have remained for just three or four years.

From 1903 to 1913 number 39 was occupied by Messrs Hall and Harding, solicitors.

Then came the years of the Great War (1914-1918) and the site was put to good use as a recreation centre for visiting servicemen, known as The Guest House for Soldiers.

The house remained empty for a time after World War 1, and the peace-time tenant would seem to have been Edwin J Carter, who started Ye Olde Guest House Café, which is shown in our photograph from the year 1927.

A new owner was found for the café in 1931, and Francis Weedon arrived on the scene.

He soon changes the name of the business to The Bay Tree and with it came some years of stability refreshments were still being served there in the late 1960s (in 1969 Bay Tree confectioners was established at 13 High Street).

The Dorothy Perkins name was to be seen on the building in the 1970s, and later, with the arrival of the charity shop age, Salisbury Methodist Church became the new tenants.

Readers will also remember Monsoon and Oasis as trading from this site.