Shopping In The High Street

A Memory of Stourbridge.

I was born in 1946 and lived in a house in South Road, not far from Jimmy Parkes the butcher. This was, of course, well before the advent of supermarkets. My mother and I used to walk from South Road, along Clifton Street and down Lion Passage and then Lion Street into town every Friday for the weekly shop.
We would start at the top of the High Street at Thompson's Corner and work our way from top to bottom through Woolworths (remember the warm roasted peanuts sold in a paper bag) past Macfisheries, butter and cheese at the home and colonial and so on...........
The last trip was through the old market building and out the back door by the chain works then to the green grocers at the end of Bath Row where it joined the bottom of Lion Street. Mom never carried potatoes further than she had to.