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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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Sue Fowler – Trepidation when new to the job

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Sue Fowler – The Queen of Shoes

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Designing windows in the 1980s

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Lisa Carter – Persisting for a modelling job

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Sheila Burnett – We shopped in Ryde most often

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Dressing a window

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James Pellow – It was formal, but not stuffy

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James Pellow – Playing Father Christmas

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Jane Caldow – The different departments at Cross Street

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James Pellow – Fun neighbours in the Children’s Department

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Everyone and their Mums went to the Coffee Bean

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – My first window

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Marlene Tolley – Surnames only

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Jane Gibbs – Memories of Packs

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Sue Fowler – Working the tills

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Jane Gibbs – General perception of the shop

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Jane Caldow – The creation of Pack and Culliford

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Sheila Burnett – The social scene at The Coffee Bean

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Jane Caldow – Working on window displays

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – The brown workcoats at Woods and Wilkins

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Lisa Carter – Experience helped relax me

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Changing fashion of window displays

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Sheila Burnett – Working our way through the shop

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Memories of Woods and Wilkins

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Packs’ carnival floats

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James Pellow – The camaraderie

Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Inspiration for Miss Pack

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Johnny and Colin’s Boutique

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Marlene Tolley – Major Dabell

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Sheila Burnett – Models in The Coffee Bean

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Jane Caldow – It started with Granny Guy in Totland

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Jane Gibbs – Coffee Bean memories

That’s all folks

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