1950s childhood was a trip to the Co-op for groceries with sugar in thick blue paper bags that we opened to its fullest extent and shook so that we didn’t lose a grain!
Also 5lb (?) tin boxes of Peek Freanes (sp?) broken biscuits sold cheaply.
1960s meant browsing in Woolworths and buying a slab of their iced fruit cake, queuing at Sainsbury’s for freshly sliced bacon and a patty of butter. Not to mention their excellent sausages!
No horrible plastic, just greaseproof paper, sheets of white paper, newspaper and brown paper bags. Where did we go so wrong in damaging our environment?
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic