The premises occupied by The Shop Museum have a long commercial history and within living memory were used by Mr Clement Boggis and Frank Murphy where they made up crystal radio sets from kits in the early 1930s.

Frank Murphy later sold out and his name was carried on as Murphy Radio - a national radio company. Mr Boggis traded as C C Boggis at the Foundry in Priory Road. As radio sets became into wide spread use Mr Stanley Sawyer who also ran the Garage opposite along with his son Hubert Sawyer used the back room to charge lead acid radio batteries which were collected and delivered around the district. The shop also had lots of different toys on display for sale, Dinky cars and lorries, Hornby train sets, and Meccano. Always much of interest, when passing, was to see what was new on display. The early 1950's saw the arrival of television and the shop had early mono colour televisions on display such as Murphy, Pye, Decca, Philips and HMV. Between 1960 and 1976, the Museum Shop was used by a local electrical company as a display showroom for domestic appliances and later the Post Office opposite used the building as a Hardware store which continued until 1988.

The property was later sold by the local Estate Company to a private owner and in 1995 was let to Wrentham Historical Society who had various displays of local history and interest. Unfortunately the Historical Society is now disbanded but in these premises The Shop Museum now is a centre of interest in life as of our yesterdays.