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The history of Payantake
1.In 1958 there seems to have been a Payantake store still trading at 103 Mill Hill Broadway, London NW7.
2.The original Company Registration would have been wound up by 1969 because a new Company Registration was made for Payantake Stores Ltd, with Registration Number 00964292 on 20 October 1969. The address began 'Somerfield House' and was at Bristol BS14 0TJ. The final meeting of this company for winding up was 5 March 1997 and the final accounts had been deposited on 29 April 1995.
3.There were Payantake Stores in Dublin in the 1940s, but this looks like a separate chain in Eire.
4.Going back to much earlier in the 1930s, links can be traced to the International Stores Group, which included Pricerite, Ridgways, George J Mason, S.J. Kilby & Sons, W.B. Moss and John Quality. International Stores were taken over by the British American Tobacco (B A T) in 1972 and in turn taken over by the Dee Corporation which ran Gateway and Somerfield stores.
From these random notes, the story looks quite complicated but I think it would be true to say the the immediate pre-WW2 Payantake Stores were an experiment by International Stores to try out features that are apparent in the recollections already published here.
http://www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-payantake.htm