November 2023 by Samues Leung
Sourced from Google:Partly as a loophole to escape paying the newly-introduced business rates, bachelor Frank - by then in his late 70s - decided that the family grocery business should become a museum. He imagined it as a place where future generations would learn what shopping used to look like before sell-by dates and ubiquitous plastic packaging and more mature folk could hark back to the glory days when customers didn't push trolleys around supermarkets and they paid with 'real money'.After much wrangling with the authorities over his plans, Frank finally got his wish on his death in 1995 by leaving the building - the shop and two floors of accommodation above it - and its incredible jumble of a lifetime's hoarding to the Tamar Protection Society conservation charity.The shop is now a major tourist destination and can also be used by schools seeking a place to teach pupils about social history. The Tamar Protection Society also welcome other organised groups to visit the time capsule shop.
