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The grocery shop

  • The shop was situated on the ground floor of a tenement house at Embankment Square.
  • Customers could buy imported goods here, such as coffee, tea, rice, cocoa.

Memories and stories told by the inhabitants

  • Stanisława Przybyszewska, a Polish writer, used to do her shopping here.
  • After the war, in 1945 the shop became the property of the Tchórzewscy family for a short time. Later it was converted into a flat.

Contemporary photographs

⯆ Above the door and the window of the shop it is possible to notice some fragments of an inscription informing that there used to be a grocery shop in this building.

Gdańsk. The grocery shop. Contemporary photographs. The photograph presents a fragment of a historic building of the sandy colour. There is a small green wooden door and a window in a white wooden frame on the ground floor. There are stone steps leading to the first floor and next to the steps there is the main entrance – a massive green wooden door with an upper window. On the first floor, there are also two windows set in dark green wooden frames. Above the door and the window it is possible to see a fragment of an inscription informing that there used to be a grocery shop in this building.
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