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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Does anyone else remember the various mobile shops that used to serve the Langley Mill area up until the mid sixties? The main two I remember were the Co-op butcher and grocery vans, it used to be my job in the long school holidays to sit in the front room of the house on the days they were due looking and listening out so my mother didn't miss them. The other one that that I remember is 'Harry Poundalls Lorry' that used to come around at between 10:00 and 11:00 at night on a Thursday, my mother said this was a hangover from when Langley Mill was a mining village, some wives had to wait until their husbands came home drunk from the pub on pay day, raid their pockets and buy what they needed for the week from the lorry before their husbands could sober up. Harry alway used to use tatty old lorries with broken silencers that used to wake me up as they went up the street. [/quote]
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RNewman

Mobile Shops
replied on: 12/13/2002 1:19:50 PM

Does anyone else remember the various mobile shops that used to serve the Langley Mill area up until the mid sixties?

The main two I remember were the Co-op butcher and grocery vans, it used to be my job in the long school holidays to sit in the front room of the house on the days they were due looking and listening out so my mother didn't miss them.

The other one that that I remember is 'Harry Poundalls Lorry' that used to come around at between 10:00 and 11:00 at night on a Thursday, my mother said this was a hangover from when Langley Mill was a mining village, some wives had to wait until their husbands came home drunk from the pub on pay day, raid their pockets and buy what they needed for the week from the lorry before their husbands could sober up. Harry alway used to use tatty old lorries with broken silencers that used to wake me up as they went up the street.

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