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I found a shopping list from 1969

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Trouthallgrapefruit · 05/09/2023 19:39

Interesting isn’t it!

I found a shopping list from 1969
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givemeasunnyday · 05/09/2023 21:05

IrresponsiblyCertainAboutSexualDimorphism · 05/09/2023 19:58

It looks like a grocery order book. The biro is the order and the pencil (price, extra items) is what the grocer added.

My grandmother used to have one. It was taken to the grocer every week and he made up the box, added the price and any extra items she rang in with (go her - a phone in the 1960s!), and then she paid on delivery and got her book back for next time.

Her handwriting was more like the pencil though. She was born in 1906.

I agree, that is exactly what it looks like - hence the branded names for products.

Hedjwitch · 05/09/2023 21:07

I think this is a Christmas shop. Stuff for making a cake and trifle

Santonola · 05/09/2023 21:07

On the back of this thread, I've just been over to YouTube to listen to The Persuaders theme tune.

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Trouthallgrapefruit · 05/09/2023 21:08

Nearly every week is just as heavy on baking ingredients so I wonder if they were doing traditional Sunday afternoon tea, massive chocolate cake, Victoria sponge, sandwiches type scenario ?

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Trouthallgrapefruit · 05/09/2023 21:10

There are a couple of entries which I think may be Christmas weeks, With the inclusion of matchmakers and cake decorations 🥰

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Tulipvase · 05/09/2023 21:11

Look like my mums handwriting too, made me feel a bit funny.

Fascinating though.

DobbyTheHouseElk · 05/09/2023 21:17

Andrex in 1969?

we still had bronco in the 1980’s. I was led to believe soft paper hadn’t been invented in those days. Wow, my mind is blown. I hated that tracing paper stuff.

LunaNorth · 05/09/2023 21:18

Am I the only one finding this a bit moving?

The minutiae of a life…

Alycidon · 05/09/2023 21:19

Myhorseishoarse · 05/09/2023 21:04

Definitely remember cream soda in the 70's

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You could order it from the milkman (along with other fizzy drinks) in the 70s.

godmum56 · 05/09/2023 21:24

DobbyTheHouseElk · 05/09/2023 21:17

Andrex in 1969?

we still had bronco in the 1980’s. I was led to believe soft paper hadn’t been invented in those days. Wow, my mind is blown. I hated that tracing paper stuff.

We had soft loo roll in 1959.

godmum56 · 05/09/2023 21:25

ps according to google, it was sold in the uk from the 1940's

enjoyingscience · 05/09/2023 21:26

This is lovely. It looks to me that the kids demanded some fizzy pop that was added on last minute as a treat.

Beautiful writing too.

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Trouthallgrapefruit · 05/09/2023 21:28

I particularly love one week where there’s an addition scribbled in pencil, 10 consulate and two walnut whips. It’s so incongruous to the usual disciplined shops but I think we can all relate to those weeks 😄

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amispeakingintongues · 05/09/2023 21:28

Trouthallgrapefruit · 05/09/2023 20:17

This is the next page for those interested ! 😃

Even more eggs!

AInightingale · 05/09/2023 21:29

My granny gave us tinned strawberries and raspberries with cream after dinner. They're pretty terrible, but I had a massive craving for them when expecting my children.

Mossstitch · 05/09/2023 21:29

I remember going to stay with my grandma sometimes at the weekends and would be sent to the corner shop for a bottle of cream soda, probably late 60s. She also used to always say 'have some Adam's best butter' .......never called it just butter🤗

TheGirlFromTomorrow · 05/09/2023 21:29

Oof three pounds of Lurpak is absolute luxury these days!

oakleaffy · 05/09/2023 21:36

Beautiful! My grandmother {By adoption} had handwriting just like that. Thanks for sharing, @Trouthallgrapefruit Trout Hall- I think I remember that brand.

thenightsky · 05/09/2023 21:37

It looks exactly like my mum's handwriting too. She would have been 40 in 1969. Also, in Leeds, Yorkshire.

VeloVixen · 05/09/2023 21:39

Yes definitely a grocers. I remember as a small child the local shopping precinct with a butchers, grocers, greengrocers.

then the first supermarket in the city opened up, very handily on the next street over from our house! Honestly it was like Xmas going in there. Was a massive Asda and it was like something out of a dream, something which was only in America! Me and my brother loved mooching about.

Pixiedust1234 · 05/09/2023 21:40

It made me laugh seeing BeRo next to the flours, bet they only baked from the BeRo recipe book 😂

I was a bit jarred seeing my dead mum's handwriting but looking again my mum's letters were closer together so the letters formation is the same but the width of the word is shorter (if that makes sense) but it does actually look like my grandmother's writing. You don't see f's like that anymore!

oakleaffy · 05/09/2023 21:40

I'm overcome in a waft of nostalgia- What innocent times they seemed. Obviously weren't, but UK was very different back then, the War and rationing was still in people's memories.

WavyLines11 · 05/09/2023 21:42

What's cream lemonade? Or am I misreading this?

WavyLines11 · 05/09/2023 21:43

Or is it clean lemonade?!