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Back In Time For The Corner Shop (BBC)

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Maria Magenta

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Anyone watching this? It's the usual structure, a family travels through time, on this occasion running a corner shop in Sheffield.

I don't think we really had a corner shop, though perhaps I just can't remember.
 
Yes Lyn. Episode 2 aired this week but is repeated on Sunday BBC 2 at 4.50pm for 1hr. Enjoyed 1st episode set during early 1900s - covered WW1 and up to about 1920.
 
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It's very interesting, my great grandparents had a little shop in Grove Lane Smethwick, the family lived above. My mother helped make the ice-cream in the same way they did on the show but people brought a bowl for it.
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It must have taken for ever to make ice cream! I didn't realise (though probably should have) that there was training available in the 1920s for people running shops.
 
I found the first episode really useful as we have been looking at a 'corner shop' in Boldmere which opened in the late 1800's so the date coincided. The Boldmere shop is now a pub and we have been trying to find out when it was licenced. The TV shop keeper had applied for a beer licence and served this in his grocer's shop so this may have happened in Boldmere. I'll have to watch the next episode on i-player as I missed it.
 
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