Serving a small and scattered community during the earlier 20th century, this grocer’s shop at Haggate Nook or Scartop, beyond Stanbury, was run by William Greenwood, a member of the Oakworth Urban District Council.
Here he stands in his doorway wearing his voluminous apron.
“He sold just about anything you can mention – coal, groceries and corn to the local farmers,” said Rosamund Mitchell, of Grange Farm in Oakworth, who supplied the photograph and whose husband, Raymond, is Greenwood’s grandson. “When he delivered the corn, he picked up their spare eggs and he had an egg round in Keighley.”
Raymond Mitchell’s mother remembered going with him in his horse and trap when he delivered eggs in the notorious Keighley Pinfold area: “She was told never to get out of the cart down there, as it was very rough and dirty.”
Subsequently these premises would sell teas to Bronteland visitors.
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