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Shops, Shopping and Services, early-mid 20th Century: Contents List

Scroll down for sections with clickable links to pages on shops, shopping, deliveries and pre-decimal money in the rationing and austerity of WW2 told by people who were there with added research by the webmaster.

UK Money before
Decimalisation

• Pre-decimal coins
• Writing old money
• Pronunciation of pre-decimal
  money and plays on words
• Pricing policies
• Bank notes
• Cheques and postal orders

Food Shops early 20th Century

• Shopping process early 20th century
• Weights and measures
• Old bakers shops
• Old butchers shops
• Old fishmongers
• Old grocers shops
• Old Co-op shops
• Old dairies
• Old greengrocer shops
• Old sweet shops

Non-food Shops
early 20th Century

• Chemists
• Chemists remedies
• Newsagents
• Post offices
• Barbers shops
• Hardware / ironmongers shops
• Drapers shops
• Cobblers shops
• Furniture shops
• Pawnbrokers
• Corn chandlers/pet shops

Deliveries and Services
early 20th Century

• Postal deliveries
• Milk deliveries
• Bakery deliveries
• Refuse collection
• Rag and bone man
• Insurance collection
• Chimney sweeps
• Ice deliveries
• Knife and scissor sharpening
• The horses on horse and cart deliveries

Food Shops in WW2
Rationing and Austerity

• Sainsbury's
• Co-op shops and dividend
• Payantake shops
• Small family grocers
• Greengrocers
• Dairies and milk deliveries
• Types of milk and milk bottles
• Dairies
• Bakers
• Sweet shops

Other Shops in WW2
and afterwards

• Social aspects of shopping
• Packaging
• Customer waiting alerts
• Post offices
• Shoe shops
• Wool shops
• Department stores
• Green Shield stamps
• Miscellaneous shops

Coal Purchase and Delivery

• Importance of coal
• The coal yard/depot
• Coal prices and receipts
• Preparing for a coal delivery
  early 20th century
• Coal delivery early 20th
  century
• Coal delivery mid 20th
  century
• Coalman's work
• Coalman's clothes

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