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Dive straight in and have a listen to more than 150 interesting snippets from the lives of our interviewees and learn more about how life in and around the shops were. Snippets are generally a couple of minutes long and we have plenty of them for you to enjoy. Just tap/click to read/listen.

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Dolly mixtures

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Designing windows in the 1980s

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Jane Gibbs – My Dad’s connection to Packs

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James Pellow – Running The Coffee Bean

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – The London Fashion Houses

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Sheila Burnett – Mother of the Bride outfit

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Lisa Carter – I was a natural performer

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Off to London

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Jane Caldow – Scones at The Coffee Bean

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Jane Caldow – Coupons for women’s clothes

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Memories of Miss Pack

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Jane Caldow – Shanklin and Bembridge branches

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Miss Pack window models

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Jane Gibbs – Buying shoes that lasted

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Packs’ carnival floats

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Lisa Carter – Each Fashion Show model had a dresser

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Marlene Tolley – The Fashion Shows

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Jane Gibbs – Memories of Packs

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Sue Fowler – Greeting customers

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Marlene Tolley – Standards of dress

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Marlene Tolley – Boxing up the expensive items

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James Pellow – Some customers had accounts

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Sheila Burnett – The Coffee Bean was the social hub

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Jane Gibbs – General perception of the shop

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Coming back to Packs

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James Pellow – I applied to work at Cross Street

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Lisa Carter – Getting into modelling

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – My first window

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James Pellow – Who was involved

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Jane Caldow – Wedding services

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Jane Caldow – Working on window displays

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James Pellow – The Christmas Grotto

That’s all folks

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