In 1960 with 4 men and 5 ladies to serve the customers
The caption reads: October 1960 - Birchall Road Grocery - Kettering & Wellingborough District Shop Competition - 1st prize in district and area Championship Cup - Manager Mr D W Shouler, 1st Assistant D Cumberpatch
A second copy tells us they often won the cup for "Best Shop" in the
Rushden Co-op's own competition. The staff are named left to right as
Phylis Fensome, Pam Lumbers, Edith Dunmore, Betty Coleman, and
Back row Dennis Shouler, John Brawn, Morris Slater.
The shelves all stacked and displays on the top shelf at the far end.
Extract from a longer article 1941 Dennis Ekins, a driver in the R.A.S.C. joining up in May 1940 a short time after his marriage. He is a keen cricketer and footballer, and his civilian work was at the Birchall-road Co-operative grocery store.
