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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 – Coffee Bean memories

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

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Jane Caldow – How to pick the right stock

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Designing windows in the 1980s

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Jane Caldow – A family business

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

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James Pellow – Mrs Pope’s great sense of humour

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Lisa Carter – Experience helped relax me

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Keeping up with changing colours

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Sue Fowler – No joist hangers in the roof

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Marlene Tolley – The Fashion Shows

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Jane Caldow – The different departments at Cross Street

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James Pellow – Nominated for Shop Assistant of the Year

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Jane Gibbs – The carnival floats

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Jane Caldow – Choosing the stock

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Jane Caldow – The alterations department

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – I was a free spirit

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Miss Pack window models

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Sue Fowler – Working the tills

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Marlene Tolley – Never work much makeup

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Marlene Tolley – Surnames only

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Jane Gibbs – The wonderful window displays

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Memories of Miss Pack

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Sheila Burnett – We shopped in Ryde most often

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Sue Fowler – Fashion shows

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James Pellow – Fun neighbours in the Children’s Department

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

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James Pellow – How the clothes were displayed

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Jane Caldow – The creation of Pack and Culliford

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Jane Gibbs – My Dad’s connection to Packs

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

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Sheila Burnett – Working our way through the shop

That’s all folks

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