When you are tall enough to see the top button on the till – then you can serve
Well what do you know? This old film about the origins of Wood Green High Road was sent to me http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=74415
It brought back loads of memories as my aunt had a net curtain shop at the Turnpike Lane end of Wood Green High Road. My mother would often leave me there on a Saturday morning whilst she had to go to work. No 7 it was I think - Taylors of Wood Green.
I used to love it. High counters, bolts of lacy material - and in the back I was allowed to play all morning. My ambition was, as I grew, to be able to serve in the shop. I remember my Aunty Sadie saying, "When you are tall enough to see the top button on the till - then you can serve".
By the time I grew tall enough to have made that a reality, I was busy with my next ambition - to be an actress. Ironic really - as they do say politics is show biz for ugly people! But many happy memories revived by the film - all so long ago.
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I'm not sure that we even had a proper till in my Mum's shop - in a village, not a town or city. Anyway, I was serving customers there when I was 9 and not very tall. Remember selling Players Weights in packets of 5. And farm labourers coming in week by week to cash their cheques for their industry's minimum wage - of course Mum always handled that.