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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 Caldow – Working on window displays

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Designing windows in the 1980s

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Sue Fowler – Greeting customers

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Jane Caldow – It started with Granny Guy in Totland

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

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James Pellow – Who was involved

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Jane Gibbs – There were high standards

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Marlene Tolley – Standards of dress

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Going up to London

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Different materials

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Packs’ carnival floats

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Marlene Tolley – Working your way up

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Marlene Tolley – ‘Appro’

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Coming back to Packs

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James Pellow – How we greeted customers

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Returning to Packs

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Lisa Carter – A scary environment for younger women

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Sheila Burnett – We shopped in Ryde most often

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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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James Pellow – Playing Father Christmas

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James Pellow – Listening to Virginia Wade win Wimbledon in 1977

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – I had artistic flair

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Dolly mixtures

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Jane Caldow – What it was like working there

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – My first window

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Faking movement in the clothes

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James Pellow – The camaraderie

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Jane Caldow – Packs on Union Street

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Lisa Carter – The hubbub of the Fashion Shows

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Marlene Tolley – Christmas Boxes at Packs

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Sue Fowler – Visitors from Coronation Street

That’s all folks

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