The shop in the photograph is in Station Road, near where the village hall is now. The memoires of a resident born in the 1920s mentions many shops and other providers of fruit, veg and fish. At present we have no photographs of these shops. The two shops he remembers most vividly were those run by Mrs Rosie Spence and John Thwaites. Mrs Spence ran a shop across the road from the Red Lion, the actual location is not certain, selling sweets, groceries, yeast, White Rose paraffin from a special dispenser with a pump from an outhouse and occasionally fruit from their own orchard. The sweets Mrs Spence sold were very traditional including acid drops, humbugs and gooseberries. You could buy a ½d worth in a triangular paper bag so you could have 4 types of sweets if you had tuppence (2d.). Her husband, Arthur Spence was the village joiner making farm carts, wheelbarrows and acted as undertaker for burials. He recalls watching with great interest as Mr Spence heated the iron tyres for the farm carts in a ring of fire to expand it and then with the help of two or three other people putting it on the wooden wheel to where it would shrink back to a tight fit. A cigarette vending machine was installed at the end of their garden much to the dismay of the landlady or the Red Lion. The Players cigarettes were 11½d for 20 but the machine did not give change so it dispensed special packet with a ½d inside. John Thwaites ran a shop at 1 Chapel Street which he opened in 1913. He had a bigger shop window than Mrs Spence but his was not facing the street, so time could be spent looking in the window while contemplating future purchases. Mr Thwaites sold everything but was a little more imaginative than Mrs Spence and sold Lucky Bags for a penny. These bags contained a sherbert dab, a nick-nack, a wafer and a locust bean which were black chewy sweets. Mr Thwaites also had the Firework License so sold fireworks for a couple of weeks before 5th November. This shop was the first to sell wrapped sliced bread in the village.