In every village and town you could buy your daily
essentials plus a few little extras, at the parade
of village shops. There would be a baker, a butcher,
a greengrocer and a general store. They were the heart
of any community, Shopkeepers would exchange pleasantries
with their customers, asking about their families and
troubles and sometimes dispensing advice along with a
pound of sausages. At the village shops you knew every
thing was fresh and hadn’t travelled miles across the
country or even the world to be there for you. The
vegetables at the greengrocer’s were freshly dug: if
you got to the baker’s early enough, the bread was still
warm from the oven: and the meat from the butcher was
fresh in. If you had a small purse you could buy small
portions. Ham was sliced on a hand-slicer and tea, sweets
or mixed biscuits were weighed out on seesaw sweets scales.
The butter would be cut from a huge slab and patted into
shape with two wooden paddles.
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