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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 169 Send Message	Ryank	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:19
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 169 Send Message	Hi another one to keep you all going. What shops that have closed over the years. Just e few to get started do you remember. John Collier the tailors. C & A the clothes retailer. Liptons Ryanke
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 885 Send Message	Desperate Housewife ♥	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:20
	Chelsea girl. Used to spend saturday afternoon in there spending my first wages! Karen
Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 5,042 Send Message	JustJean	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:21
	litlewoods kwik save
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 2,563 Send Message	Karen in the desert	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:21
	Richard shops - I used to love them for my clothes!! K
	Researching: Researching: MILLS & ROBERTS Cambs: TAGG Thames Ditton & East Molesey, Surrey: LEETON/LEADON Hunts & Cambs: LLOYD London/Middx: FROST London/Middx: ROSKAS, KISELIUS, BUDAS W.Lothian & Lanarks: ROSKAS, JAKAS/JAKAITE, JUSKEVICIUS, MICKEVICIUS Lithuania
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 885 Send Message	Desperate Housewife ♥	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:23
	God I remember richards shops, my mum used to buy a dress there every xmas for the works do. karen
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,851 Send Message	cariad	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:25
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,851 Send Message	yes Richards shops, bought a lot of stuff there. and C & A.
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 10,735 Send Message	Tina-Marie	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:26
	ohhh what a lovely 'blast from the past' thread. Richard shops... totally forgot that one Chelsea girl C & A... loved the dresses
	Researching: Harrod - Norfolk, Batten - Somerset, Bloom - East London, Mason - East London
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 4,301 Send Message	SheilaSomerset	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:26
	Timothy Whites Brentford Nylons
	Researching: Gloucestershire, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, London, Lithuania, Russia
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:26
	Peter Lord - shoes Carrefour - everything Salisbury's bags and umbrellas Home and Colonial - grocers
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 169 Send Message	Ryank	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:27
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 169 Send Message	For those on the board from Liverpool Well thats my home town. Blacklers Department store. George Henry Lees Department Store Owen Owens Department Store Ryanke
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 885 Send Message	Desperate Housewife ♥	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:34
	For anyone from Manchester....Lewis' department store, worked there when I left school, now it's primark, cheaper but not as much class. lol karen
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 4,758 Send Message	Maddiecow	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:35
	Anyone Remember Dickie Dirts - Camberwell Green London - many many years ago.
	Researching: Powell, Chappell, Haffenden, Elliot, O'Shaughnessy
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 885 Send Message	Desperate Housewife ♥	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:36
	No sorry Maddie cna't recall that one, what did they sell karen
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 525 Send Message	Jackie	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:39
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 525 Send Message	c & a was my first job when i left school in 1961 hated it i weighed about 6 stone and we all had to wear black dresses had red hair so looked like a black matchstick Lol you had to be called by your surname and as mine was smith they called me by the name of the street i lived on couldnt get used to answering to ir Love Jackie
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 3,307 Send Message	BrendafromWales	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:40
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 3,307 Send Message	Anyone from Manchester remember Henry's store on Market St? not as classy as Lewis's,but used to get some real bargains especially in their china dept,in fact still have some small china plates that I got from there!
Member Since: May 2007 Posts: 4,758 Send Message	Maddiecow	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:40
	Jeans HH was very famous I think they were even mentioned in the Lyrics of a Madness song.
	Researching: Powell, Chappell, Haffenden, Elliot, O'Shaughnessy
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 169 Send Message	Ryank	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:42
Member Since: July 2003 Posts: 169 Send Message	Not giving my age away Appletons the Chandlers Waterworths the greengrocers Irwins Binns the Department store Ryanke
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:43
	just love that black matchstick description Jackie - can picture it!!
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,851 Send Message	cariad	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:43
Member Since: March 2005 Posts: 1,851 Send Message	macfisherys ratners
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 885 Send Message	Desperate Housewife ♥	Report	12 Jan 2008 22:43
	Brenda, don't remember Henry's but do remember Bostock records, bradleys records and best of the best for records....Yanks all in manchester in the eighties. Karen x

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