Lando Terrace , Pembrey

A Memory of Pembrey.

Really enjoying looking at the pictures of pembrey, so many memories.
The comment regarding the ‘big house’ on the left at rear of the picture was Lewis’s shop , my grandmother. In earlier times the family , myself include, lived in the shop. Before my time there was a hot water heated glasshouse as well as a bakery in the huge garden at the back. So a typical one stop village shop. As the family moved on to other things my gran continued to run the shop. My grandmothers house was in ashburnham rd and I have clear memories of my Gran walking to and from the shop , summer and winter. Pocket money was earned by us children by ‘helping’ out in the shop on Saturday,s and holidays. This was in the days when customers dropped off a shopping list , the various items would then be collected up and boxed and the name written on the flap of the box. All very high tech! Other jobs included restocking the shelves, slicing bacon ( that was some dangerous machine!, cleaning the front windows( they used to get really dirty so that was a regular job. Warm water with a bit of vinegar in, wiped on with the shaft paper bread was allowed to be wrapped in then and finally polished dry with crumpled up news paper. Really cleaned off the dirt and road grime and left the windows gleaming. That’s how I clean windows to this day. )
My dad would then deliver the boxes of groceries in the evenings or a Saturday. Great memories and times I which I’d appreciated more.
To finish off what started out meaning to be a quick correction , John,s shop was on the corner of glanaber and ashburnham rd, opposite the police station, unless there was another one in the village , but it certainly wasn’t the big house at the back of that picture.
As was.