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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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Jane Gibbs – Hosiery

Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Inspiration for Miss Pack

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Johnny and Colin’s Boutique

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

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Miss Pack window models

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Sue Fowler – Wealthy customers

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Jane Caldow – A family business

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Marlene Tolley – Christmas Boxes at Packs

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Sheila Burnett – The Coffee Bean was the social hub

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Designing windows in the 1980s

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

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Sue Fowler – Working the tills

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Faking movement in the clothes

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James Pellow – It was formal, but not stuffy

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Lisa Carter – The hubbub of the Fashion Shows

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – They cared about our development

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Sheila Burnett – Mother of the Bride outfit

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Marlene Tolley – My first job

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Jane Gibbs – Buying shoes that lasted

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Sue Fowler – Greeting customers

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Sheila Burnett – Closing down

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Going up to London

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James Pellow – The Christmas Grotto

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Marlene Tolley – Major Dabell

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Lisa Carter – Experience helped relax me

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James Pellow – The camaraderie

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Jane Caldow – Carnival floats were a marketing tool

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Hanging on by my fingertip

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Lisa Carter – Getting into modelling

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Jane Caldow – Childrens’ Dept in Union Street Packs

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Getting creative

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Jane Gibbs – My Dad’s connection to Packs

That’s all folks

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