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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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Sheila Burnett – Her quiet genteel manner

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Sue Fowler – DfLs

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Jane Caldow – First floor at Union Street Packs

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James Pellow – Listening to Virginia Wade win Wimbledon in 1977

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Marlene Tolley – The Fashion Shows

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Sue Fowler – Wealthy customers

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James Pellow – Playing Father Christmas

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Sue Fowler – Working the tills

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James Pellow – How we greeted customers

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Dressing a window

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Sheila Burnett – Elizabeth Pack

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Lisa Carter – I was a natural performer

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Jane Gibbs – My Dad’s connection to Packs

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Marlene Tolley – Standards of dress

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Designing windows in the 1980s

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Jane Caldow – Granny’s hat window

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Jane Gibbs – The ‘bees knees’

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James Pellow – How the clothes were displayed

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James Pellow – Fun neighbours in the Children’s Department

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Getting creative

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James Pellow – It was formal, but not stuffy

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James Pellow – Some customers had accounts

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Going up to London

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Coming back to Packs

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Jane Caldow – Working on window displays

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – I liked to do unusual windows

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Jane Caldow – The creation of Pack and Culliford

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Off to London

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Jane Caldow – Choosing the stock

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Sue Fowler – The Queen of Shoes

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Lisa Carter – A fit model

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Jane Caldow – Coupons for women’s clothes

That’s all folks

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