PARCELS/PERISHABLES Apart from the receipt of mail and newspapers, livestock show traffic was sent away regularly for Olympia in London by local breeders. Miss Turner, who ran a tobacconist in the High Street, received regular supples of tobacco and cigarettes delivered by the railway motor lorry. On Sundays, when the Aldeburgh branch was not operating, L.F. Geater, a market gardener from Leiston, brought in flowers for despatch to the London Markets. As early as the 1950s, one local turkey breeder at Hall Farm, Sternfield, sent away frozen birds, a revolutionary thing in those days. Vic Last, a fishmonger at Snape, received mainly mackerel and haddock from Hull via Ipswich, also from Lowestoft, on a regular basis and collected the traffic himself. Luggage also passed through the station to and from Framlingham College after the closure of their branch line. Harcourt, the local butcher, sent away rabbit skins in hessian sacks via Ipswich to Horace Friend of Wisbech, and much of this was used to produce hats and coats, being dubbed 'poor man's far'. Other outwards traffic included large quantities of locally grown lettuce. The International Store in the High Street received regular supplies from their warehouses and suppliers.
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