March 1 2025: John Barnao: Selling Fruit Before Supermarkets

Our general Meeting on 2pm March 1, 2025 will feature a talk by John Barnao:
The arrival of the big, air-conditioned shopping centres in the 1970s resulted in a decline in many traditional, neighbourhood businesses.

This trend towards ‘shopping under one roof’  started a movement which today continues to affect butchers, milk bars and other ‘old-fashioned’ retail traders.

My talk will take a historically-based, nostalgic look at the style and culture of the small, family-run fruit shops that were once commonly found in every local shopping strip.


DTHS welcomes all to our general meetings at Schramms Cottage Museum Complex 

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