Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Dolly mixtures

It was lots of fun just looking around Woods and Wilkins. It seemed to me a very, very big Store at the time because you know we were used to Department Stores on the Island and Woods and Wilkins was like a Department Store really.

Just the fact that you went upstairs and even Elizabeth Packs was a Department Store because you went up the grand stairs to the ‘Coffee Bean.’ Yeah, Woods and Wilkins had a special memory when I was a child of going in there with my dad, who was a TV Repair Man, and you wouldn’t be allowed to do this now, but while we were in there, Maggie and I got sort of itchy feet and started walking around and dad said to us, “No don’t walk around, you might get caught on something or something might fall on you” so there was a very elderly man who worked in Woods and Wilkins.

I think he must have gone out. He went and bought us some dolly mixtures and sat us down on some chairs, and we sat and ate the dolly mixtures. It was such a lovely, lovely memory that it’s never left me.#