Only corner shop in the British Isles that doesn't sell milk.
It sells everything else that you'd expect a corner shop to sell, but the only milk that gets delivered is a couple of pints for Granville and Arkwright's personal use.
Never understood that bit.
I was walking down the skyway my way...
The show was filmed from 1976-1985 back then shops didnt sell milk it was delivered by milkmen or women and tasted a lot better.
shareAs eyeball tickler said, it was more unusual if a small shop sold milk back then. Almost everyone had it delivered.
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Delivery lasted well into the 90s. When I moved to the UK in 1995, I moved into a brand new block of flats. The local milkman left a slip in the letterbox. I grew up in the US after the era of home milk delivery (at least in my area), which had stopped long before I was born, so it seemed quaint to me.
shareI still lived with my parents back in 1974, I'd just started work as an apprentice turner and every morning called into the local corner shop on the way to work to get my morning paper, pack of 20 Embassy and a pint of milk.
It was one of the first things I learned as I took my first steps into the adult world.
It's what we did and I'm sure we weren't unique.
I passed three corner shops on the way to work and they all sold milk, when I moved to a new town in 1977, there was 2 local shops both selling milk to the great unwashed every morning as they made their way to the daily grind.
Everyone I knew had milk delivered to the door but that was for the house. They all bought in the shop for work.
I was walking down the skyway my way...