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 ? |
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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 ....
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