Shopping

Henry Fray is on the far right, Edward Murgatroyd (a local farmer) on the left and Elias Hillyard fourth from the right. The pigs were prize winning, hence the cup.
The photograph was taken in the late 1930’s.   The shop next door was Murgatroyd’s Clog Shop. The yard to the left was known as Patrick's yard.  Edson Patrick ran the grocer out of shot to the left.

Post Office and Grocers – this was run by three generations of the Hirst family. The photograph was taken for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937. The signs advertise “Telegraph Office” – the telegram (hand delivered by motorcycle) being the quickest form of communication in those days when most people didn’t have a telephone 

The grocery was run by the Wormald family for three generations. The older man in the photograph is Rufus Wormald, the younger man is his son Joe. It eventually passed to Joe’s son, Albert and closed down in 1973. 

The top building below High Street, near the top left corner, was Charlie Campbell’s Fish and Chip Emporium.
There was no running water in the building and 3 or 4 buckets were carried from a well at the end of the riverside path onto Booth (The Holmes). Local property owners the Titterington family owned the water supply (which serviced some of their houses) down the middle of the road.

The local plumber offered to put water in for him, and this would cost him £1 per year, but he was abruptly told that he certainly couldn’t afford that (although he wore his clog irons out every few weeks!).

The chip range was heated by two coal fires. Charlie would pick pieces of coal out of a box to top them up, and then give his hands a cursory wipe on a towel which hung from the side of the range. This was hardly ever changed, and was always black, and he would then proceed to pick up the fish, and serve them with the chips straight into an old newspaper (no greaseproof paper then).       

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