John Dodd beside his father, behind the counter in their shop. Christopher Colbeck tells us: ” My mother, Dorothy HEBRON born 1915 in Loftus at Pear Tree House in the Market Place, told me a tale she remembered of her own mother Sarah HEBRON visiting the Dodds shop where they had just had installed; on the end of the shop counter, a device which held a large roll of brown paper for wrapping sold goods. Having bought and paid for some goods which were duly wrapped. She then noticed that the paper displayed the name of the shop. Dodds were very proud of the paper roll device but her mother in some fairly haughty manner told the staff that she was not going to walk through Loftus advertising Dodds name and made the staff unwrap the goods and reverse the paper and re-wrap before she would take her purchase out of the shop. Imagine trying that at Sainsburys today?”
Image courtesy of Mrs. Ditchburn and many thanks to Christopher Colbeck for that update.
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