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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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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Going up to London

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James Pellow – The Christmas Grotto

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James Pellow – Some customers had accounts

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Marlene Tolley – Major Dabell

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Johnny and Colin’s Boutique

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Sheila Burnett – I still have my outfit today

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Lisa Carter – Each Fashion Show model had a dresser

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Lisa Carter – The hubbub of the Fashion Shows

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Lisa Carter – Seeing my photo in the window of Ladies Realm

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Sue Fowler – DfLs

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Marlene Tolley – ‘Appro’

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James Pellow – How we greeted customers

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

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Marlene Tolley – My first job

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Miss Guy was a fabulous woman

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Learning how to build up a window display

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Sheila Burnett – Closing down

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Sheila Burnett – We shopped in Ryde most often

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Sue Fowler – Working the tills

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Memories of Miss Pack

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Jane Caldow – Woods and Wilkins transformed

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James Pellow – It was a bustling cafe

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Marlene Tolley – The cash desk

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Lisa Carter – Getting into modelling

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James Pellow – I applied to work at Cross Street

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Jane Caldow – My Mum ran the Jaeger Boutique

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Sue Fowler – The Queen of Shoes

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Lisa Carter – Persisting for a modelling job

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – They cared about our development

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Lisa Carter – The pace of the cat walk changed

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Jane Gibbs – My Dad’s connection to Packs

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Jane Caldow – The creation of Pack and Culliford

That’s all folks

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