The table below lists a total of 20 traders that were registered in Bures Hamlet in 1900

Now in 2007, the only ones left trading are:-
Swan and Eight Bells PH, Delicatessan and Newsagent.

Opposite the shops in Bridge St, there is now vacant meadow land.
This housed many old shops which have long since been demolished.

View looking towards the village from Station Hill. (circa 1900)