The Top Shop

A Memory of Reigate.

This was the year I started school and my mum took me into the top shop after school for some sweets for being a good girl at school (I think it was called Berrys) and every Saturday my nan came over and gave me sixpence to spend at the top shop for sweets and they would have to last the week. AsI grew older my mum let me go on my own, I never moved from the village and I could do all my shopping there as well. We had shops - a butchers (owened by Mr Harriot), a bakers (sorry, can't rember the name), a post office (owned by Mr and Mrs Barnard), another sweet shop (owned by Mr and Mrs Paine), a delicatessen (owned by Mr and Mrs Deerman), a greengrocers (owned by George and Jack Samuels) and a few more shops that I can't remember and the top shop which changed owners frequently, the one I can remember is Mr and Mrs Welfare as Mr Welfare looked like my grandad. I still live here.