Surprised Leeds customers are transported back in time

Kirkstall-based Home Veg Box entered into VE Day spirit by dressing up to transport their home-grown goods in style across Leeds.

The Love family started their Home Veg Box business at the beginning of the lockdown, and it grew quickly as people across Leeds took advantage of its services.

All professionals in their own right, the Home Veg Box team consists of Jules and Si Love, a nurse and physiotherapist respectively, their decorator son Sam with his musician wife Chloe, and Jules’ web designer brother Philip and his company administrator girlfriend, Lou.

Their forties-style costumes received a warm reception from customers, with positive reactions on the door along with others posted afterwards on their Facebook page.

Memories sparked by seeing the outfits worn by the delivery team included some customers remembering their own family members who served in the Land Army, while others were simply transported back in time for a moment or two.

Armley Helping Hands praised the effort. Member Dawn Newsome said: “Absolutely brilliant. Happy VE Day to our wonderful friends at Home Veg Box”.

Jules Love said: “It seemed a great way to lift spirits, have a bit of fun while we worked, and at the same time made a few people smile.”

Home Veg Box makes twice weekly deliveries of fresh fruit and veg across west Leeds, with a donation of a box to Armley Helping Hands for every 10 boxes they sell.

Just last week they marked a thousand boxes sold and 100 donated to Armley Helping Hands.

For more information about Home Veg Box, go to www.HomeVegBox.com or email [email protected]

“It seemed a great way to lift spirits, have a bit of fun while we worked, and at the same time made a few people smile.”