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Shopping in the High Street in the 60's
Summary
Pauline and Nigel describe how they used to buy groceries.
Transcript
Pauline Before you would have individual shops, I’d go into Stevens the grocery shop at the bottom of Roath Road. I would go in and ask for four rashers of green bacon and you wouldn’t even dream of asking for green bacon now, people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. It just meant that it wasn’t smoked and all the biscuits would be in little boxes in front of the counter. They would just come round and get half-a-pound of biscuits whatever, they wouldn’t be in packets and things like that. Nigel In front of the counter there would be biscuit tins, some of them open and you would select whichever biscuits you wanted – to be put in a paper bag and most things would be loose, which meant that there would not be all the cellophane and wrapping of today and if you had bacon it would be wrapped in paper, certainly not cellophane.
