The Santa Rita café (on the left) has been closed for a while and rumour has it that this site is to be redeveloped and flats built above. Not necessarily a bad thing but with local house prices climbing ever higher, partly driven by Crossrail, there is likely to be more and more of these infill-type developments.
The photo of the shop called go stitches. This uses to be an Estate Agents, called Carr & Co in the 1960,s. The owner was Jack Byrne. Who lived in Westfield Rd and then in Seaford Road.