Home Delivery Services

Many early 20th century shops as well as having shop premises, also had a mobile shop and. Most local shop keepers did their own home deliveries.

Here the Rev Brame describes some of his earliest memories of deliveries that were made to the back door of the family home, probably during WW1.

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Home deliveries in the 1920s
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Bread and grocery deliveries
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Hopgoods Hardware deliveries to the Brame Family 1920s

In his teens (so mid 1920s) Leslie Brame ‘in need of a bit of cash to pay my board‘, went to to work for the Stowmarket based shop of Juby’s during his school holidays. He worked ‘nine to six most days, Wednesday nine to twelve(half-day closing), Saturday nine to nine‘ for which he received seven and sixpence a week.

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L.H.Juby “Drapery, Millinery, Haberdashery, and general Ladies’ Outfitting”

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1930s Gyford's van with Charles Gyford

See Gyfords, The Tailors of Saxham Street

Milk

More from Rev Leslie’s memories, this from when he was older and after school would be sent down to the farm to fetch the milk.

Fetching the milk
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Pre 1947  Walnut Tree Farm was mainly arable with cows kept for their milk which was  delivered around the village and Stonham by  Mary Bloom and her sister using a hand cart that was donated to the Museum of East Anglian Life (now The Food Museum, Stowmarket) . Villagers would leave their back door open and Mary or her sister would ladle the expected amount of milk into a waiting bowl.

In 1947 the milk round was sold off and the cows as well.