Wrensons shops

[Stokkie]

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.

 

[Stokkie]

Wikipedia have a short history of Wrensons under their entry for David Grieg supermarkets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Greig_(supermarket)

 

[Paul G]

My first job when I left school was at Wrensons West Heath as delivery boy on bicycle

 

[NOTSHARP]

My first job when I left school was at Wrensons West Heath as delivery boy on bicycle

When was that, Paul? I lived in West Heath.





Steve.

 

[Richard Dye]

Wikipedia have a short history of Wrensons under their entry for David Grieg supermarkets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Greig_(supermarket)

Very good insight. What amazes me that I grew up in Birmingham, leaving at the end of 1962 and never knew the Wrenson name! I must have lived under a rock

 

[pjmburns]

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.