Lucy Haycock took over the village shop and post office in 1954 from Gwyneth and Dave Evans. She sold the business to her daughter, Marj Holtham, in 1960 for £200. Marj’s daughter, Lynne remembers the shop well:

1960 to 1966 the shop was very busy as not many folk had cars and there were big families and no supermarkets. I remember that we had daily deliveries from the bread man, and I especially remember a big green lorry delivered sweets and confectionery. One day Tony and myself hid in the lorry and it drove off. Luckily mum spotted we had gone and stopped the lorry. We got told off! We used to play on the front path to the left of the shop door, either roller-skating down the sloping path or playing hopscotch.

In 1966 the shop moved from the black and white building now called Barset Cottage. Tim Corbett had wanted it for his family, and gave Marj some land at a peppercorn rent opposite the primary school. Marj had a brand new house built with the shop and post office at the front. 

The village shop at the black and white cottage opposite the Dower House was run by Hannah Deakin in 1871. She was assisted by her 19-year-old daughter Alice. By 1891 Alice was running the shop on her own, and was later joined by her 21-year-old niece, Alice Anne Deakin. Younger Alice was still running the shop and post office in 1939.

After 1966, the Bollands and then xx and xx Humphries ran the new shop, which closed in XXXX