General Chat

my father banned me from going in yates said that they were full of unsavory characters but used to go anyway and how did he know who went in lol
Love Jackie

Jackie remember going in Yates when about 17 and watching a prostitute picking up men, I was fascinated, she was quite old as well but managed to pull some one lol

Karen

i went in one on market st once and it was full of prostitutes tramps and winos
Love Jackie

Hope one of them wasn't me LOL

Karen

any one remember the long bar and rembrandts in manchester
Love Jackie

No, but remeber the Salisbury, the place next door, rotters and gilly's.

Karen

dont think so Karen if its not a rude question how old are you
Love Jackie

41 nearly 42 and no it's not rude I don't mind at all/

Karen X

im 61 so you werent even born when i was going in there
Love Jackie

Shame Jackie I think we would have got on in Yates. Anyway going to bed now so nite nite.

Karen xx

Nite Nite Karen so am i
Love Jackie
yes i think we would have had a good laugh

Can anyone from Newcastle recall Van Allans who were on Northumberland St near C&A.

Oh lots of memories here! I remember Bellmans wools in Norwich so they must have been a chain, and who remembers the International stores? We had a women's clothing shop called the InScene, think it was the one that became Chelsea Girl! I used to go and buy a skirt and tell my Dad 'it was only £1 10 shillings', (£1.50 now) and he would say 'only?' I think at the time I was earning about £3 something a week!
What about Gordon Thodays, the fabric shop, used to make a lot of my own clothes when I was young and skinny, so went there a lot, could get a skirt (pelmet as Dad called them) out of a remnant!
Happy times. What was the shop called that is now River Island?
I was heartbroken when our C & A closed down, used to buy loads of stuff in there.
Lizx

I remember Pauldens,Afflecks,Lewis,Duckworths
Bought a pair of shoes from Timpsons with my first wage grey wedgies,( wow nearly 57yrs ago,) my wage was £2/10 shillings om
shoes cost £2/ 7/6

Jean x

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Oliver shoe shop. Loved it. Lynette xx

Pauldens in Manchester, I visit an old lady who reminises about that shop, and Lewises everytime I see her, also about how she used to sit in the gardens at Piccadilly and eat her butties at dinner time. She cant believe it is all concrete and fountains now. Hasnt been down there in years.

Marilyn

C&A - coats n ats (aka clothes)
Lewis's -department store
Times Furnishings - furniture
Dudley's Furniture - ditto
Continental - supermarket
Vivo - supermarket
Midland Educational - books, toys and school related stuff
Timothy Whites
Powerhouse - electrical goods
Big W (huge woolworths - 5 minute wonder)
Fosters - Clothes
Cirio Citterio - mens suits
Fine Fare - Supermarket
Kwik Save - Supermarket (think they have all closed now)

oh and my first job, selling power tools in the co-op £16 a week had to wear a three peice suit, mine was bottle green, I looked like a stick insect. the shop was just like Grace Brothers and we even had our own version of Mrs Sloecombe

Ratners the jewellers
Greenwoods tailors
Kwik save now its a Somerfield

oh yes Valerie - I do remember Meeks - "The matching's unique at A G Meek" !!!
Anyone remember when shops used to use a system of little containers on wires to put the money in and it was transported across the top of the shop to a central cashiers - she sat in a sort of booth, opened the container, took the money and put the change in the container and back it went to the counter!!