Big Bertie
Familiar Face
- Messages
- 79
- Location
- Northampton, England
Service of course has mostly gone to pot. It's been 30 years or so since any petrol stations employed pump attendants, and the supermarket system is just about universal - even at Fortnum's. Railway porters are a thing of legend - even hotel porters are few and far between. The Chinese laundry shut up shop in about 1962, along with delivery boys on bikes, most fishmongers and ironmongers, as well as old-fashioned banks. What else will become extinct? Cutlery? Bookshops probably.