At Masons, on Bath Street, there was an outside display of buttons going for 2p per button.

The bargain box of buttons has a plastic tumbler so that customers can help themselves in a pick-a-mix way.

Masons, on Bath Street, is an old fashion haberdasher selling dress fabrics – piled high, craft fabric, paints, dyes, and buttons.

I am trying to imagine what people will do with a tumbler full of buttons.We are far more used to pushing buttons these days, rather than searching through Grandma’s button box, for a missing button to exactly match a dress, suit or pyjamas.