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Wrensons shops

Wrensons had a branch in Bearwood, Smethwick in the 1960s. Ham cut off the bone, bacon sliced on number 6 and New Zealand cheddar and butter. There was a bigger branch in Dudley Rd and at Cape Hill. Mom usually shopped at an independent, Mr Parr on Bearwood Road. He knew that she had worked in wholesale grocery and was a good customer. But Wrensons was quality too.
 
Shirley had a Wrensons and a George Masons near the Church. The Co-op was further down the Stratford Road towards Birmingham.
If we visited my Nan first we used Wrensons or George Masons. If we didn't visit Nan then we went a different route (walking of course) and used the Co-op.
It was in Wrensons I remember them weighing sugar and packing butter. Fascinating to watch as a child.
 
HI my father David Sharpe worked at Wrensons in kingstanding from 1951 to about 1959 and was later a manager there and my mother Rita Roberts (later Sharpe) also worked there in the late 1950s. This is a picture of my mother in the Kingstanding Wrensons in the late 1950s.
 

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I worked at Wrensons, as a Saturday boy, delivering and sweeping, and packing, "Glazed Cherries" (which I hated), in the Loft, burning box's, Bristol Road , Northfield, about 60 ,61, I was hoping someone on here, was there, and remembered me, I cannot remember any names now, but the girls were very kind to me, the manager I remember as a large, rotund man all in white. I earned enough to buy my very first bike, "Dawes double blue", which I paid off weekly at 5/-.. Happy days!!
 
I worked at Wrensons as a stop gap until a job, which I prefered, turned up. A different job, in the city did arise and due to a dispute, between myself and the manager over a broken shed window, I left Wrensons. I was there for two or three months in 1953. Regarding the post by Janice, (156#) I recall sugar packaging - in plain dark blue bags - and the cutting of butter and lard into amounts of about 8 ounces. To achieve some accuracy with these jobs was art and it was something that was achieved with dexterity.
The blue sugar bags were not wasted as they were sought after by school children for making their school projects.
 
paul stacey said:
I worked at Wrensons, as a Saturday boy, delivering and sweeping, and packing, "Glazed Cherries" (which I hated), in the Loft, burning box's, Bristol Road , Northfield, about 60 ,61, I was hoping someone on here, was there, and remembered me, I cannot remember any names now, but the girls were very kind to me, the manager I remember as a large, rotund man all in white. I earned enough to buy my very first bike, "Dawes double blue", which I paid off weekly at 5/-.. Happy days!!
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I still hate glazed cherries :)
 
231 pauls said:
HI my father David Sharpe worked at Wrensons in kingstanding from 1951 to about 1959 and was later a manager there and my mother Rita Roberts (later Sharpe) also worked there in the late 1950s. This is a picture of my mother in the Kingstanding Wrensons in the late 1950s.
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Where abouts was the shop in Kingstanding ? I'm sure I went in there with mum, but can't remember where exactly it was.
 
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