Broad Street Wrington ARCHIVE
1987 - Temple's Grocers

On 21st August, 1987, Nancy and Charlie Temple were in their last week of trading before retiring.

They were happy to talk, whilst customers came and went, because, as Nancy said: "There's more chat goes on in here than buying and selling ...."



... with Mrs Millard from next door, perhaps ?
I'd been in the air force, at Lyneham
We were looking for what all retiring persons want - security ....
... with the least amount of work, I suppose. But they were few and far between. We went to one in Oxford ...
... but they wanted too much, and our estate agent mentioned this place in Wrington. Well, we'd never heard of it
so we popped down to have a look ...
... and then, of course, 20 years ago, it was a lovely place ....






... probably before you came.