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Over Fifty
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:23 am Post subject: Shopping memories........ |
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I was just thinking back,prior to the days of Tesco etc., where my Mum got the weekly shopping from. The good old Penicuik Co-operative Society of course! I remember she used to make out a 'list' and then toddle across to the wee 'store' just up from Baird's shop(The Mill?) They would then make up her order and later that day,it would be delivered by a young chappie(I'm sure his name was Arthur Galloway)on one of those old bikes with the big 'basket' in front.
During the week,in the mid-fifties, I remember the horse drawn Co-op baker coming into Dick Terrace. The horse probably knew the run inside out! Always remembered it's name was Jerry! I also remember the 'frenzy' when it left a wee 'deposit in the street,when the keener gardeners in the neighbourhood used to rush out with a shovel and be chuffed that their prized roses were in for a treat! As kids,we thought this was 'GROSS'!!!  We also got rolls delivered by Lambs the baker(Can you picture that happening nowadays!) and milk delivered by the Co-op. There was also a chap named Ramage,from Roslin I think,who had an old bus converted into a mobile shop,who came weekly.
Every night,there was a mad rush by all the kids in the street into their hooses,when a selection of ice cream vans hit the street....Philips,Tony's and Mr.Whippy spring to mind. I think it worked oot at a 40% success rate,getting money oot yur Ma!!! 
............Gee folks! Ah hope ah'm nae borin' ye aw wi' this!  Ma wee wife says nae tae overdae it!!!  |
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I can remember a succession of different vans coming round our way when I was wee - there was a baker's van, butcher and fishman at least, as well as the ice-cream van, of course. However, we had the best ice cream ever in the wee shop at the bottom of my street!
Oh, and I used to get sent out with a bucket and shovel to collect any manure which had been dropped in the street, as well as getting sent up the fields to collect sheep's purls for the leeks! |
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Yes, I remember Arthur Galloway . . . not to mention his big black glasses!
I also remember when my Mum reckoned I was old enough to go to the butcher's by myself. This entailed getting the tin plate and the pound note ready for when the van came round, and taking them both out for the butcher to deposit the lump of bloody beef (ordered the previous Thursday) on the plate, and exchange the pound note for a couple of coppers in change.
That pound's worth of meat saw a family of five half-way through the week - hot on Sunday, cold on Monday, and shepherd's pie on Tuesday. There might even have been enough left for a sandwich. |
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There's nothing quite like shepherd's pie made with the leftovers from the roast! Making it with ordinary mince just isn't the same.... |
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I know - mince is just too wet.
There's no way any self-respecting shepherd would take a lump of soggy, dripping lunch with him to the hills.
Mind you, there's no way that shepherd would have beef in his pie, either . . . !
Does anybody out there remember the charming old Scottish custom of making a week's supply of porage at once, and spreading it in a drawer to set? The man of the house would then take a slice of the stuff with him each day, along with a bottle of whatever men drank in those days.
It would save so much time in the mornings if people still did that.
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The Co-op referred to by "Over 50" was called " Fields End". I also remember the horse drawn vans, of the baker, Co-op, Butcher and my favourite the Coal man. Yes that was a few years ago
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Spry
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Hi Over Fifty! Was that shop Fieldsend store after it had been tarted up? I don't ever remember it looking that posh but I was probably hardly ever in it after about 1940.
I remember as a youngster being fascinated by the overhead cash containers that used to whizz all over the shop and also by the lethal looking ham slicer that used to produce wafer-thin slices as if by magic.
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Over Fifty
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Now I remember these pneumatic thingies Spry! Apparently,they were called the Lamson system.
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I just Googled the Lamson System. It seems to have wheeched the containers along tubes. Was thare not another system where the container travelled along wires? That's the method I seem to remember. |
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Spry
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Aye, the Central store had the Lamson system, but Fieldsend, at least for a while, had the kind where the containers whizzed along the wires and that was far more interesting to a laddie (and mebbe even to a lassie).
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Perhaps the Lamson type was the broadband equivalent. |
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Spry
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A lot of the shops in Edinburgh had the whizz-across-the-room kind (don't think that's the real name) including the higgledy-piggledy Parkers Stores in Potterow.
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Seem to remember some of thr big shops in Edinburgh had those "sooky tube " things and I am not as old as most (44). Shops I can remember is The store in Bread street, Sterlings Ritches. Sure there were more but I remember the tubes rather than the specific shops.
Also remember when credit wasn't a shoo-in, you weren't gauranteed to get hire-purchase
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I can remember when the Co-op in Gorebridge had them (well at least, the drapery department did!) Now there's a thought....do you even get £drapery departments" these days? |
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All the big stores had them, they were really high tech just after the war. Places Like Binns, Pts , Peter Allans, J&R Allans , Bairds , Woolies, Frosts, Grants and probably loads more had the whooshy tubes. But where are all these firms now. All gone, well the name Woolworths still exists. Its quite funny looking back over the years to see how much everywhere has changed. Can you remember when assistants actually tried to help you? Even all the local dialects have almost gone. Whats next, Scots ( the language) ? |
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