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[[File:Apsey Brook Buying Club.jpeg|thumb|left|Apsey Brook Buying Club|Apsey Brook Buying Club|400px|left]]The '''Apsey Brook Buying Club''' was a co-operative store in [[Apsey Brook]] that ran from the 1940s till the 1970s.  Families took turns operating the store, with a small building, pictured, being moved around when operators changed.  Oral history has it that when May Smith ran it however, it was done from a large front room in her house.
[[File:Apsey Brook Buying Club.jpeg|thumb|left|Apsey Brook Buying Club|Apsey Brook Buying Club|400px|left]]The '''Apsey Brook Buying Club''' was a co-operative store in [[Apsey Brook]] that ran from the 1940s till the 1970s.  Families took turns operating the store, with a small building, pictured, being moved around when operators changed.  Oral history has it that when May Smith ran it however, it was done from a large front room in her house.


The store stocked such items as canned goods, confectionary, frozen meats, cheese and of course, salt beef.
The store stocked such items as canned goods, confectionary, frozen meats, cheese and of course, salt beef.  A large roll of twine was strung through hook eyes, to tie up parcels wrapped from a large roll of brown paper.  A weigh scale for weighing meats and cheese, and a slicer for cutting bologna and ham. 
 
Purchases were often recorded in a large black book or register, for people to pay later. For cash, a drawer held little bowls for change, screwed into the floor of the drawer.

Latest revision as of 07:17, 22 September 2021

Apsey Brook Buying Club
TypeCooperative
IndustryRetail
Foundedc.1940
Defunctc.1975
OwnerCo-operative of Apsey Brook Families
Apsey Brook Buying Club

The Apsey Brook Buying Club was a co-operative store in Apsey Brook that ran from the 1940s till the 1970s. Families took turns operating the store, with a small building, pictured, being moved around when operators changed. Oral history has it that when May Smith ran it however, it was done from a large front room in her house.

The store stocked such items as canned goods, confectionary, frozen meats, cheese and of course, salt beef. A large roll of twine was strung through hook eyes, to tie up parcels wrapped from a large roll of brown paper. A weigh scale for weighing meats and cheese, and a slicer for cutting bologna and ham.

Purchases were often recorded in a large black book or register, for people to pay later. For cash, a drawer held little bowls for change, screwed into the floor of the drawer.