Last post for shop run by same family for 100 years
It was then taken over by Doris and George Saunders, her maternal grandparents, and became Saunders.
Pat said: “My parents, William and Margaret Westbrook, took it over before I was born and called it Westbrooks. We took it over 33 years ago.
“When I was growing up here, the biggest indoor sawmill in the country was across the road and it was very busy. People would do their weekly shopping with us in the era before supermarkets.
“What is now our storeroom used to be the shop, before my parents built on an extension. You used to come through an old door, past a shed with shelves of things like vinegar and fizzy drinks, into the shop which had a flagstone floor.
“There was a counter and you had to bring your own containers – a jug for vinegar and a bag for the flour to be weighed out.”
At the age of four, Pat was allowed to set up a small table in front of the post office where she would sell items such as old cotton reels. She said: “I’m not sure that my father didn’t give his customers money to buy from me.”
After the Westbrooks retired they lived in a bungalow behind the post office and set up a business baking cakes.
Pat said: “My late mother’s recipes are still sold in the shop today and Rod and I plan to move into the same bungalow.
“It’s the end of an era but it’s time for the shop to benefit from new ideas.”
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