Audio
Lot of things were delivered, most of the local shops would deliver for you. We had a regular baker in the early days, who would come with his basket, big basket, filled with all of sorts of different kinds of bread and cakes, and you could choose what you would have, and he came every day. The milkman came every day. There was a mineral water man, who would come selling… it’s called the direct mineral water supply, the DMWS, and as children we thought this was wonderful, this fizzy lemonade, really, and my mother used to have little glasses, we were allowed a small glass each, because it was quite expensive, I think it was 4 pence per bottle, and that was big money then, and there was also the butcher, when we had the telephone – that was an excitement when the telephone came in – you could telephone the butcher and he would send you meat around with a boy in a bicycle.
M
Along the parade of shops there was a Tobacconist but they also had a small Post Office, and the proprietor’s name was Mr Jones, and my friend and I would go around there on Christmas morning – it would be open on Christmas morning, and we’d always get a small gift, it may be some sweets, or it may be a cone, we had to do that, on Christmas morning, we had to go around and get presents, so… something that would be unheard of these days.
Barbara
