James Pellow – Fun neighbours in the Children’s Department

Simon: You said the Children’s Department was next door to the Men’s one. Was that a noisy Department, the Children’s one or …

James: No, no.

Simon: Ok.

James: It was delightful you know.

Simon: And the people that worked in that Department, were lots of sort of fun and giggles.

James: Oh yes, as I say, if my Department was quiet I would be talking to them a lot, you know. And again another incident, I remember because obviously the Children’s Department was right by the main doors out onto Cross Street, and on one occasion I was talking to the staff there, and Mrs Pope, and it was just this way, the timing was perfect, Mrs Pope was over by the front doors, which probably were open because it was summer, and at the moment she was there, somebody walked past on the pavement and belched very loudly, and of course we instinctively looked across at Mrs Pope, and because she was such a delight, she just burst out laughing and said, “It wasn’t me” (laughs).