Jane Caldow – Childrens’ Dept in Union Street Packs

Jane: They would have been big wooden units like you had in Display units. At the back of Cross Street there was all the old wooden cabinets. They would have been used for that and as I recall if you were on the Ground Floor, before you went up the main staircase which was in the middle of the building, if you looked from the door from the Cancer Shop, you go in on that wall, the main staircase went up that part of the building and I seem to recall they had various big toys on display, because occasionally if we were allowed to play with them after the Carnival, we were still there before everyone went and we would go home again, we were allowed to play with these toys sometimes, but they must have been just for display. They didn’t sell toys, but they were display ones.

Simon: And the cabinets were sort of glass topped, glass fronted, drawers inside.

Jane: I assume so, yes. And then over the years it was modernised I think.