George and Rose Wood outside Weinrich's shop in about 1959. Under new ownership the old name was retained. It was a fruitiers and florists but also sold general stores and had a freezer. Many customers ran accounts and orders were made up in boxes and delivered in an old van. Wreaths were made, especially at Christmas where the whole family often helped with the lesser jobs, mossing the frames or wiring artificial holly berries, until the early hours. The floors throughout were then full of orders in boxes waiting to go out the next day. Over the road Mrs Chilcott's old hat shop was used for storing stock, it was then completely unrestored with no electricity or lighting. Halfway up the stairs there was a date inscribed in the wall, hard to see in the near dark but was very old, it was 1435 or something like as far as I remember. Frozen food stocks were kept in an insulated container there, kept cold I think, with dry ice.
Photo courtesy of Doug Wood.
Date: about 1959
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