Cambridge Sainsbury's 1976
Don't know the man with the basket, he just happened to be there.
Like the section title: "Butter, Margarine & Lard". Don't expect they had organic butter in those days!
posted by Andy at 9:37 am
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Don't know the man with the basket, he just happened to be there.
Like the section title: "Butter, Margarine & Lard". Don't expect they had organic butter in those days!
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I can remember Sainsbury's in the late 50's, when I was a child. The dairy counter was made of cold marble, and the air had a creamy smell. Best of all were the women, who wore white overalls and white hair-nets, who used wires to cut the cheese and butter. I was mesmerised by it all.
Yes, your idea of taking these photos is a great one, Andy. How about Primark on a busy Saturday?!
'Fraid I don't recall Sainsbury's from the late 50's (!) but I do recall the Dairy shop in Raynes Park (S Wimbledon where i grew up) in the mid 60's and the enormous slabs of cheese being sliced with a wire cutter.
>>'Fraid I don't recall Sainsbury's from the late 50's<<
Nor me!! :-P
My mother went to the Co-op (1150474)
OK, both of you. I forgot-it was in fact the late 60's when I was a child. Cough, splutter, cringe...
Tee hee! It's all right Carole. I was extremely impressed that you had such clear memories from babyhood!
I was a very observant baby.
But being born in 1954, I can remember shopping with my mother c1959-60. I do remember carrying a tiny dolly basket, and also having to leave the marble-floored dairy hall and enter a separate section where one would purchase biscuits, bread etc.
I also remember my brother John falling into a fish-pond, watched by holiday makers, and his little nylon romper-suit keeping him afloat ! My mother had to clamber over a wall in order to reach the pond and pull him out. I must have been about 6.
when I said I don't recall Sainsbury's from the 50's it is because, although I was alive through all of the 50's (unlike both of you) having been born in 1949, my mother used to go to the Co-op - 3 shops next to each other, the grocer's, the butcher's and the greengrocer's - and the 7 digit no I quoted is her divi number
Andy,
I did guess that the number that you had quoted was a co-op dividend number. I have always remembered my mama's divi number, but when asked recently about it, it has gone from my memory.
Somewhere I still have some divi stamps. And some Green Shield stamps that were never traided in!
Ah now, I do remember the Green Shield stamps and having to stick hundreds of them them into those books! Then arguing over what we were going to exchange them for!
And I also recall posting pennies into a Post Box to get 1d stamps out - they were all attached so we'd beg for loads of pennies to get the longest strip of stamps we could.
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