School: Newcastle
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Máire Ní Fhotharta
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 217
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- Shops were not common in olden times and people often had to walk miles to the nearest town to purchase their goods. Sometimes people had to buy after Mass as they had a very long distance to go home. This is not carried on now as a new Act was passed not allowing shopkeepers to open on Sunday and to open and close at certain hours on week-days and close for a half-day one day in each week. All groceries were sold in this way except in the Huckster's shops here and there throughout the district,.
Money was usually given for goods but sometimes farmers wives exchanged butter and eggs for groceries. Labour was given in exchange for goods. If the shop - keepers employed men to work instead of his wages he would give him his groceries.
When the people wanted credit the used to ask for "tick" and there was a certain woman in this district named Mrs. B. Williams and she and her sisters kept a shop and they stocked everything, but when anyone went in for anything they could not find it so they gave it up as it did not pay(continues on next page)
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