Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Returning to Packs

Simon: So, did you return to one of the Pack’s shops?

Christine: I did, yes. Mr Guy, in fact I think he got in touch with mum and said that some people that I’d been in to see in Pack’s had said that I was home, and wondered if I was interested because they were short of Window Dressers, and so I came back, I think it was more on a sort of like a trial as such, but I just stayed.

Simon: And what did you notice had changed? Had anything changed to the shop in the meantime?

Christine: There seemed to be a lot more work. Oh, hang on, that was Mr Creasey I think we had then who was the Display Manager. He was very structured and organised so the windows were slightly different. They had less in the way of themes, more in the way of posters that would hang at the back because he would order posters or he would make up posters with Deann the lady that did the drawings. He would get her to draw out a summer theme and then he would get that printed at the Printers so everything was very … much more structured than I’d had before, so we weren’t given a free hand to do what we liked. That was quite difficult you know because I’d been used to sort of deciding for myself what I wanted to do.

Simon: How did you adjust to that then?

Christine: I suppose I didn’t really. I just underneath I didn’t actually feel that I got on very well although we didn’t ever have any arguments. There was a young lad called Derek, who came to do Display who I was able to teach so I could mentor him, and so it was like having, you know a young child teaching them something which was great fun.