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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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Sue Fowler – How it began

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Sheila Burnett – Everything was ironed and packaged beautifully

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James Pellow – The Christmas Grotto

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Jane Caldow – Scones at The Coffee Bean

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James Pellow – How we greeted customers

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Lisa Carter – Persisting for a modelling job

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – My first window

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James Pellow – Running The Coffee Bean

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Sheila Burnett – We shopped in Ryde most often

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Sue Fowler – DfLs

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Memories of Miss Pack

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Jane Caldow – Choosing the stock

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Marlene Tolley – Major Dabell

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

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

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Changing fashion of window displays

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Marlene Tolley – ‘Appro’

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Marlene Tolley – Surnames only

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Sue Fowler – Greeting customers

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Sheila Burnett – Closing down

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Sue Fowler – Swimming during lunch hour

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Miss Guy was a fabulous woman

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Johnny and Colin’s Boutique

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Jane Caldow – The carnival floats

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – I was a free spirit

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Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Miss Pack window models

That’s all folks

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