Hello Smileyface,
thank you for adding your family memories about the Holfords/Alfords and their shop. It's great to hear about them from people who knew about them. I met Dorothy Holford just the once and I was only a child. Dorothy left the Marsh after James died in 1950 and spent the remainder of her life living with her sister in Beeding W.Sussex.
Dorothy came to Occupation Rd during the war years following the death of her mother in 1943 so was there for about 7 years. My only recollection was hearing my mother say that Great Auntie "Dolly" ran a shop with her husband in Abbey Wood and that they had land at Dymchurch.
