"My father had bought the general stores in the village and for the next two years ran it with my mother, from six in the morning till midnight, and literally sold anything. There was a plaque on the front of the shop informing all those who craned their necks to the sky that the store, called Willow Cottage, had been built in 1885."
"We sold ironmongery, food, sweets, and toys and even had a bookcase full of books, which were rented out at threepence each per week, and called it itself a Lending Library."
