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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 – My Dad’s connection to Packs

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Jane Caldow – Scones at The Coffee Bean

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Sheila Burnett – The Coffee Bean was the social hub

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Changing fashion of window displays

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Sue Fowler – Visitors from Coronation Street

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Sheila Burnett – Mother of the Bride outfit

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Sue Fowler – The Bridal Department

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Marlene Tolley – Working your way up

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Sheila Burnett – We shopped in Ryde most often

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Sheila Burnett – I still have my outfit today

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James Pellow – Listening to Virginia Wade win Wimbledon in 1977

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Jane Gibbs – The ‘bees knees’

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Jane Gibbs – The wonderful window displays

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Jane Gibbs – General perception of the shop

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Jane Caldow – Shanklin and Bembridge branches

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Going up to London

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James Pellow – Playing Father Christmas

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Sue Fowler – Funny staircase

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – I had artistic flair

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

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Sue Fowler – DfLs

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Jane Gibbs – Buying shoes that lasted

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Keeping up with changing colours

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Marlene Tolley – Everything was cleaned each week

Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Inspiration for Miss Pack

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Marlene Tolley – Major Dabell

That’s all folks

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