Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Going up to London

Mr Pitman had gone to a big Store in London called John Sanders in Ealing, and they were looking for a Display girl and he and I got on really well. He was very nice. I got on with him and his wife and he kind of treated me in a fatherly way which was nice and so I … he wrote a letter to my Mum and said, “Would you like to Christine: to come up to London? She would get some good experience here” and he said, “I really enjoyed working with her and I think she would make a good Display girl”,

So Mum agreed for me to go up there, and the owner of the Store of Sanders, he found me a bedsit and so I went up there and stayed at John Sanders for a while, but Mr Pitman … I think I stayed there for a year. Mr Pitman left, because he got an even better job, I can’t remember where it was, it might have been Debenhams I think down in Cornwall, and that was closer to his home ‘cos he came from Devon.

So, he and his wife Stella moved and I thought I don’t really want to stay here now Mr Pitman’s not here and so I applied for a job in … I’m trying to think …5th Avenue in Regents Street and I went to work in 5th Avenue