![]() The one with the bank attached to it was well-stocked and always had good, smart staff and a regular delivery man. The people who kept the grocery shops didn’t inspire much loyalty. ![]() He was out with the Heythrop Hunt and MajoeBrassey had been thrown from his horse. While Aunt Lily was there, the then Prince of Wales called in one day for help with a hunting accident. He told her he knew her father Robert had brought the family up to be honest, so he had no worries about losing any of the money. She then had to clean the room for the next day’s business. The owner used a shovel to pick up the sovereigns in the bank and Aunt held open the canvas bags for him to tip the money into. In those days grocers bought whole pigs and boiled the bacon for sale over the counter along with the home-made lard and brawn. Her wages were two shillings a week and a bit of lard to take home to her mother. The owner ran a family grocer’s business as well as a small bank. When my mother’s youngest sister Lily Longshaw left school, she went to day work at the Bankhouse. Most local villages were almost self-sufficient there were family grocers, bakers, dress makers, wheelwrights, a butcher, several smaller shops and one or two public houses. Her earlier recollections were published in Wychwoods History no. Mrs Brookes, born Dorothy Coombes, grew up in Shipton under Wychwood during the second two decades of this century. (A PDF of the article can be found here). We republish it here as part of an occasional series celebrating the work of the Society over time. Here is a second extended piece by Dorothy Brookes, taken from the WLHS Journal No.
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