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Connie Hilton,on the right of the picture, worked Odells from 1984 to 1990 when it closed. A member of the local Historical Society, she gave a talk recounting her experiences.
"Description of what Odells sold. Well, general ironmongery, but lots of little bits and pieces that only Odells sold, because the big stores didn't have a turnover of them and they only keep what they can sell in great quantities. Nails by the thousand. There was about 30/40 drawers all containing a different type of nail which we sold by the pound. We weighed the nails, not in your little plastic bags that you get now." |
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"When I started work in Odells, the upstairs living quarters were being stripped and made into offices. There were lots of family belongings still there. Richard and David kindly loaned a great many items to the Historical Society including a bath chair and a very old double pram..... One extra large room upstairs was used as a warehouse with stacks of all kinds of goods, ranging from a great assortment of glass chimneys for paraffin lamps, old bars of soap and lots of tools which had been in for repair and never collected. There were piles of old ledgers as well as personal belongings and photographs.
At the back of the shop were the cellars where the old workshops were located- copper smiths, joiners, blacksmiths- the bellows, which were also given to our society, still in place complete with funace with ash from the last fire." |
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