Also staff measuring sugar into blue paper bags - 1lb, 2lb with unerring accuracy. Real flour bags, empties washed and used as dusters (and for draining home-made cheese). Well-off customers shopped by telephone (not abbreviated to 'phone or phone as now) for home delivery. I used to deliver meat on Saturday mornings, using the type of cycle now only seen in places like the Black Country museum! PJ Proby wasn't even a twinkle in anyone's eye then. Keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Bramhall" <brian_bramhall@LineOne.net> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 24 November 2000 08:32 Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] Co-op | I remember as a child being taken to the Co-op and watching in amazement as | the cash container shot across the shop on a wire and returned with the | change a second or two later. I can still smell the mixture of coffee beans | and sawdust. I don't mean they were mixed! There was a wooden floor with | sawdust and white scrubbed counters. And a machine which ground the | coffee - a new thing to England then I think. The assistant used to give | me a slice of some meat, probably brawn or prem, to chew on to keep me quiet | whilst mam or gran got the divvi sorted out. | | Oh, aye lad, those were the days. | | Brian B | Lancashire, UK. | | brian_bramhall@lineone.net | http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm | | --- | Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. | Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). | | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Glenda R. Wilson" <wrwgrw@earthlink.net> | To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> | Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 1:27 AM | Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] Co-op | | | > Brian, | > | > They have something like the Co-op here in America. There is a fee | > for using these, such as $35.00 per year, but you still save money | > by shopping there. The one we belonged to was Sam's Club which is | > located in every state, I believe. | > | > Co-op was real a real big thing here some years ago. | > | > Glenda | > | > | > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== | > This list also allows Trivia postings about the region as well as serious | genealogy research postings. | > | > | | ______________________________