The Book Shop
My family lived at the Book Shop in the middle of the photograph from 1961 to 1981, it was a shop that seemed to me to sell everything, newsagents, sweet shop, chemists, haberdasherers as well as selling books. I was 6 years old in 1965, I can remember looking up at the jars of sweets in awe, mouth watering at the thought of jelly babies and sherbet lemons. Harold and Nora lived in the Post Office next door and there were several more shops in the village that I can remember, two grocers shops, an ironmongers and a dairy, as well as a pub, rugby club, social club and two chapels. It was a busy place, although we opened at 6.30 am and shut at 6, there would often be a knock at the door in the evening so the shop was "open all hours". My father delivered newspapers to all the surrounding villages including English Bicknor, Five Acres, Symonds Yat and Christchurch including the camp site, in fact in the picture of Symonds Yat Log Cabin you can see him looking directly at the camera, whilst all around him are unaware that their photograph is being taken.
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RE: RE: The Book Shop
I was a boy of 14 in 1962 living on the Nine Wells.
I remember delivering the morning papers for Mr Jones, Monday to Friday I delivered on the Nine Wells and on a Saturday would deliver as far as English Bicknor, all on foot.
Alison, I remember as a baby and her father I dicovered lived in his later years only a stone's throw from me in Sling.
Comment from George Gwilliam on Monday, 12th January 2009.