Stockdales Greengrocers Shop

A Memory of Cudworth.

Stockdales shop was owned by by grandma Winnie Stockdale and her husband Jim. She retired from the shop in 1965 and lived at Church Street, Cudworth. She opened the shop in about 1937. My grandad Jim worked at Monk Bretton Colliery. On Good Friday they used to sell many stones of fish. My mother and father (Gladys and Harold Haigh) used to look after the shop when my grandparents went on holiday) - Gladys is my mother - she is now 88 yeas of age.
I was always fortunate in that having grandparent who owned a greengrocers shop I could always have fruit to take to school - my schoolfriends used to follow me around the playground waiting for me to give them the "apple cog".
On Sunday mornings I used to go and help my grandad Jim to clean and wipe the pop bottles and wimsol bottles and generally clean the shop. I had to do this to get my pocket money. My grandma was the one I always had to ask for pocket money to go the Rock Cinema. Me and my friends would go sometimes about 4 times a week to the Rock.
My grandama died in 1972. I still miss her.

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