I Used To Live Here

A Memory of Somerton.

I grew up living in a cottage on West Street (just out of shot on the left) Next door to Mr and Mrs Vincent. Mr Vincent had the garage over the road... I remember that he had a penny farthing bike in the window.

The Cooper's had a fish shop in the Triangle there was a marble slab in the middle of the shop and they also sold fruit and vegetables. I think Mr Cooper (Ron) also had a van and delivered fish to the surrounding villages.

One the left you can see Leonard Hughes Shop - my friend Phillip Mitchell lived there. They were next door to Mr and Mrs (Bill and Joyce) Chapman who were farmers.

Next door to the Vincent's on the left was Mr Law's shop - he was a Cobbler and also sold shoes. Mum used to buy our school daps there.

Next to that was Mr and Mrs Lawrence the sweet shop, it was always our first port of call when we got our pocket money. The shop was lined with big glass bottles full of every type of sweet you could imagine. Mrs Lawrence used to weigh them on her brass scales and wrap them up in triangle shaped paper bags.

There was a delicatessen a little further down run by a nice lady called Mrs Stevens. I remember there was always packets of Smith’s crisps in large screw top jars they were the ones that had a little screw of blue paper with salt to shake on your crisps.