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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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Marlene Tolley – The Fashion Shows

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James Pellow – Playing Father Christmas

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Sue Fowler – Visitors from Coronation Street

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Sue Fowler – You didn’t serve customer at the beginning

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – I had artistic flair

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James Pellow – Choosing the Men’s Department stock

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Marlene Tolley – Day trippers

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Getting creative

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Returning to work for the third time

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Lisa Carter – The hubbub of the Fashion Shows

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Marlene Tolley – Hierarchy of staff

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Jane Gibbs – The ‘bees knees’

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Changing fashion of window displays

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Jane Gibbs – My Dad was a perfectionist

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Lisa Carter – Experience helped relax me

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Jane Caldow – Expanded to Yarmouth and Ryde

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Mrs Barrow’s tongue in cheek humour

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Marlene Tolley – Boxing up the expensive items

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Jane Caldow – My Mum ran the Jaeger Boutique

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Guidance from Miss Guy

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Dressing a window

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Marlene Tolley – Standards of dress

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James Pellow – Nominated for Shop Assistant of the Year

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Jane Caldow – Choosing the stock

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Jane Caldow – How to pick the right stock

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Marlene Tolley – Everything was cleaned each week

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Lisa Carter – Models from the Mainland

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Marlene Tolley – My first job

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Lisa Carter – Each Fashion Show model had a dresser

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Jane Gibbs – There were high standards

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Lisa Carter – Persisting for a modelling job

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Lisa Carter – I was a natural performer

That’s all folks

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