In 1937 Mr and Mrs Allen had a new double shop built on the ground adjoining the cottages. Mrs Allen sold the shops to Mr and Mrs Smith on the 30^th May 1959 and they traded there as W T Smith, greengrocery. In 1969 the shop was turned into one and was refitted with new shelving.

I went to work for Mr & Mrs Smith as a Saturday Girl aged 14, and when I left school I worked there full time.

Mr & Mrs Smith retired and sold the shop to Mr & Mrs Sharp on 11^th July 1994. The shop was refitted again and renamed as “Margaret’s” after ME, as everybody used to say when they went into their newsagents shop opposite “now we are going across to see Margaret”. I stayed with Mrs Sharp until I retired on 31^st May 2008, after 48 years serving the public with flowers, fruit and produce, having served three generations of some families; mothers, children and grandchildren. How things changed since I started, not all for the good; people were a lot happier then.