I found a shopping list from 1969

[Trouthallgrapefruit]

Interesting isn’t it!

Cream soda was available in the 1950s, as I remember it from childhood holiday treats while staying with my Grandmother. She used to get cream soda and dandelion and burdock from the Co-op.
We used to make ice cream floats with the cream soda, the height of sophistication!

There is an address actually and it doesn’t look like a guesthouse type of place on Google earth. Or a farming type family . Much more the 60s dream really, probably a new build at that time.

Why not a supermarket? The shopper may simply have decided to get all these goods from the supermarket but to go elsewhere for veg, meat etc. The fact that the shop sells eggs demonstrates that it sells at least some fresh food..

Yes only about 14 years before my memory kicks in ( I was 6 in 1983) and I'm sure the 80s were far more advanced than 14 years after 1969.

1 shilling was 5p so the lurpak at 12/0, 12 shillings, would be 60p!

Given the price, I suspect that's two packs of loo rolls, probably with either two or four to a pack.

And mine, she's 77.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g - now I'm wondering why he didn't go and buy the ciggies himself? There must be some kind of story behind that!

I remember Cream Soda in the Sixties, special birthday treat with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream in the bottom of the glass. I don't remember Addam's butter at all, we definitely had Lurpak (London), and I've never heard of the Trout Hall grapefruit segments. I like the fine ground coffee, that's interesting to me - in 1969, mine was the only family we knew who had freshly ground coffee for breakfast every day (my father was French), everyone else drank tea and then later maybe Nescafé. I assume the small salmon is not a small fresh salmon, after all the comments about it being a grocery list rather than for the butcher or the fishmonger!

That's really interesting, @Trouthallgrapefruit, thank you for sharing it with us!

The Blueband rang a bell with me. I think it was margarine? My mum used it instead of butter sometimes when baking as it was cheaper.
I was a year old in 1969 - I remember going to separate shops for different food on our local parade. We didn't have a car or a freezer so shopped locally several times a week.

I remember, in the 70s, going to the corner shop on errands - I must have been nine or younger - and picking up single, unwrapped rolls out of a big wicker basket on the floor.

It's so sad. I'd absolutely love to live somewhere with that original row of shops...

What is clean or clear lemonade?

My grandparents were from Yorkshire and they used to get their cream soda delivered on the milk float by the milkman in the early 90s. Limeade and cherryade ect too

I reckoned it could only be just the one two pack for 1 shilling and 11(?) The two small tins of beans were 2 and 6 by comparison!

Disclaimer - I was born in May 1971 so only know post decimilisation.

I have my mother's account books from the early 1940s, she got married on 3 September in 1939... I know, my parents lived in Co. Dublin. Her book is a social history from things like cabbage and meats to 6d to the shoe club to pay for her shoes and latterly the children's shoes, and money to go to the doctor's panel. The book is currently in storage... but I love seeing my mother's copperplate hand and her workings out.

Just as it says, clear, looking like fizzy water, as opposed to cloudy lemonade, which is usually pale yellow, sometimes containing pulp especially if freshly made at home.

In 1969 I was10, and was sent to do the weekly shop regularly.
I would walk to the co-op (about 10 minutes), buy the 'dry goods" and tins, lug them home, then off again to the butcher's and greengrocers. I would negotiate for the Sunday joint (small half shoulder of lamb and mum says blade please) mince, and sausages. Fish on Friday (usually fish fingers), left over joint on Monday.
Angel delight, Tizer from the Beer-off, 10 Embassy Regal and a 1/4 of chocolate macaroons.

Incidentally, to get to the shops I had to cross a busy main road.

@Jaichangecentfoisdenom We went to the shops for anyone who told us.
Up until the 70s or 80s, if an elderly woman got off the bus with heavy bags, she could tell us young'uns to help her carry them home for her.
Don't remember ever being asked to help a man, but any activity could be interrupted for forced labour

Fascinating. Sugar/Honey Smacks are DH's favourite but can't find them in England. Bring them back from Belgium.

A tin of raspberries is weird to see! My grandmother always served us tinned mandarin oranges for pud when growing up.

I remember my Mum writing a weekly order like this for our local grocers(Co-op) in the late 1960's when I was a small child. The order was then delivered as it was very unusual for families to have second cars (my dad had the car for work). This would be supplemented by regular visits on foot to the local greengrocers, butchers and bakers. Just a few years later in the early 70's we were excited by the advent of supermarkets such as Sainsburys selling everything under one roof.

This is nostalgic, but also makes me feel really old!

Can I just add, that in the late 60s, we children were allowed to choose 6 bottles of fizzy pop for the Christmas drinks list. Back then fizzy drinks were a treat and often bought if you were sick in an effort to settle your stomach, like a sort of junior Alka Seltzer.

Currently staying with my dad as he’s just come out of hospital. He’s 85 and grew up in a grocer’s shop and confirmed this is what it is. He said they had the books printed with the shop details on the front and gave them to customers. I love to get him reminiscing so it’s been a great prompt.

What a beautiful book, an absolute treasure. Seems quite a decadent list, 3lb of Lurpak, stuff of dreams!

@Kabloom hope he has a speedy recovery 😊

There are some wonderful anecdotes on this thread 🥰