Memories of Sherfield in The 1960s

It was lovely to come across this page. We lived in Sherfield-on-Loddon from 1961 to 1969 and my parents ran the village store (known then as The Stores) and the picture would have been taken from outside our shop. I don't know how long Norma (who wrote the previous memory) lived there before us, but our neighbours were also Mr and Mrs Bulpit so they may have been the same ones. I have lots of memories from those days as a teenager and we used to use that phone-box in the picture to tap out numbers and get calls for free. On Saturday mornings I would work in the shop (the pay was 2/6 per hour), we cut our own cheese and bacon and wrapped them in greaseproof paper, when I first moved there we gave customers individual service but converted to self-service later. We sold all sorts of things including paraffin and wellie-boots. On Saturday afternoons we would watch some of the local lads playing football on the common whilst listening to Radio Caroline on our transistor radios. In those days the main Basingstoke to Reading road ran right through the village. I remember sitting on a bench under one of the old horse-chestnut trees opposite the Four Horseshoes with some of the local kids. We knew lots of people because of running the shop and we also did a delivery round to Wildmoor and other out-of-the-way places. Things have changed a lot in the 40+ years since I left. I am still in Hampshire but now live near Whitchurch.