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Peter Saunders describes his father's shop in Splott: "Father's shop was a general store, on Pontmanmoor Road in Splott. He was a grocer and provision merchant. But he also supplied the coastal shipping at the docks because I used to go down with a handcart to the ships there as a child. I suppose his forte was tea. He imported a lot of tea, there'd be tea chests everywhere. Father was quite strict, it wasn't an open all hours shop. It opened at 8 o'clock and closed at six. Wednesday afternoon was an afternoon off, and it was always closed on a Sunday. The shop was demolished, like an awful lot of the buildings in Splott at the time. Father said to take something, so I took the scales. I suppose they summed up the shop to me. I used to have to clean the damn things, and as a child I used to play with them."