You could do all your shopping… there’s a very, very posh converted house near here that’s called The Old Bakery, but I remember buying bacon in it in 1967, it was the Co-op!  The Co-op was in Ham Street, near the pond end and near the little shop that was called Dunkley’s, run by Mrs. Dunkley.

Then the Ashburnham Parade shops had everything you needed: lovely baker, lovely butcher, lovely greengrocer, ironmongers, everything was there, but of course, that changed through the ’60s and into the ’70s.