I came across this photo in the book I have about my home town of Slough. How lucky I wasn`t around in the 1920`s when I would have to wear whalebone corsets.....! How uncomfortable they must have been but maybe to the women of that time they were the height of fashion. The Slough Co-op was the large store in the town where my school uniforms were bought for me. Standing in the place of that store today are a number of expensive designer shops and little is now left of the old buildings I remember from my childhood. The town is being renovated and the old town being replaced by soulless concrete that will mean nothing to present generations of children as they grow up. I remember going into the town with my grandfather on a Saturday as a 4yr old and being taken to Fishers the butchers and eating a saveloy sausage as we walked down the old High St. There used to be an old man that used to make toys out of magazine paper, just little boats and hats and things like that but every Saturday Grandad would buy me one of these from the old man`s tray and it became something that I so looked forward too. Just a small thing but a very happy memory for me still, forty-nine years later.
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I know what you mean, those old shops had such great character didn't they. We used to have a newsagents, a greengrocers shop and a butchers shop at the top of our road when I was little. Now everything has been taken over by Tesco's!!
Whale bone corsets - would have used a whole whale on a corset for me ;o)
Sara x
Hi Sandra,
What a wonderful memory to have, being with your Grandad and every week him buying you a toy. Do you have that you have kept? Same thing has happened here, so many stores and memories are gone. My Mom and I used to go to a Woolworth's store. They had a place to stop and buy a sundae or soda. They sold everything from mops to bread. I remember that they used to keep things under a flat sheet of glass with wood around it. Mom would always let me buy my Grandma perfume at Christmas from under that glass. It was called BLUE WALTZ, it came in a royal blue small glass bottle. I thought it was just the most wonderful perfume and I loved the heart shaped royal blue bottle. That was when I was 5-6. When I was about 18 they still sold it, it costs $1.00. When my Mom would buy it when I was 5 it costs $.25 cents. They don't even sell it now. But those old buildings had character and such precious memories.
My Grandma use to talk about how her Mom use to have corsets like those in your picture. I don't know how they wore them, they looked painful.Always.
Love that old photo.... :)
Sharon
Lovely old photo. I remember my Mum struggling into those. I have never worn a corset - that is probably why I have no figure now, at least my Mum kept hers lol! xxxxx
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