The North Norfolk Supply Stores, better known as Henry Page's, occupied the site from Barclays Bank to the corner now occupied by Aylsham Pharmacy. Founded in the 1880s by Henry Page (1857–1940), the store's giant name across its frontage dominated the Market Place.

Selling everything from clothing and hats to furniture, lino and crockery, it became Aylsham's largest department store and employed many local school leavers. It was also remembered for its innovative cash railway system, where payments travelled by cable to a central kiosk and change was returned in metal containers. Regular customers collected silver tokens that could be exchanged for free goods.

In 1960, the shop front collapsed during renovation work. After rebuilding it reopened as Mr Pastry, before later becoming Rusts, Murdochs and then Budgens. The site has since been redeveloped into the buildings seen today.

Joseph Clover

Joseph Thomas Clover (1825–1882) was born in Aylsham in the house that stood where Aylsham Pharmacy is today, where his family ran a draper's shop. He was the nephew of the artist Joseph Clover, whose civic portraits hang in St Andrew's Hall, Norwich.

After training as a surgeon, Clover became England's first full-time consulting anaesthetist at University College Hospital, London. He pioneered safer anaesthetic techniques, developing equipment such as the Portable Regulating Ether Inhaler (1873), which remained in widespread hospital use until 1930.

His achievements earned him a place on the crest of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, and he cared for notable patients including Florence Nightingale, Napoleon III and Queen Alexandra when she was Princess of Wales. He died in 1882, aged 57, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery.