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Hardmans corner shop, this was an off-license for Robinsons Brewery. It was a very tiny shop area the size of a front living room in which there was a counter, window display, shelving and boxes of vegatables. There was a beer pump on the counter to draw beer up from the cellar and customers would take jugs to be filled up.
The dray wagon used to drop the barrels down into the cellar through a trap door in the footpath down the side of the shop in Adamson Street.
Back in the 1940's beer and pop bottles were made of glass and there was a deposit on them for their return to the shop. As children we would collect all the bottles and take them back to the shop to collect the deposits. This was quite lucrative as it supplimented any pocket money. If we were having difficulty finding bottles we would climb into the back yard of the shop and borrow a few empty bottles then take them around to the shop and collect the deposit on them.
Shortly after the war when I was about seven years old I remember seeing my first banana in Hardman's shop, I ran home and told my mother who gave me some money and a ration stamp. I could only have one which I took home to find out how to open it. I could see there was a tiny hole in the skin so when it was opened I examined the inside closely and found a grub wriggling around inside which put me off. To this day I still examine a banana skin for holes before opening it.
Information supplied by the Globe Lane Pals '