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mike
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Posted - 18/04/2012 : 11:12:12

Looking at the Charles and Finch advert here http://www.tredegar.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=10025&REPLY_ID=49217 reminds me of the when I used to go with my mother to buy paraffin there.

As a child, I was fascinated with the paraffin dispenser fixed on the counter. It was a large glass cylinder with a rod running through the middle, on which were a number of metal discs.

With hindsight I realise that it was a graduated cylinder (probably a gallon), with the discs marking the various fractions of a gallon); but to my child's eye it looked like some sort of ornamental fountain and what's more, it was a magic fountain!

The shopkeeper (Mr Charles or Mr Finch?) would make some magical passes behind the counter (I was too short to see that he was working a hand pump to pump paraffin from a drum), and the cylinder would fill with blue paraffin. Then he opened a tap and poured the paraffin into the can which my mother had brought.

Happy days!

Mike