Jane Caldow – Expanded to Yarmouth and Ryde

Simon: … and then she expanded to Yarmouth.

Jane: To Yarmouth, I would imagine that was post war. That was Cullifords again, so whether that had been Susan Culliford’s business I’m not too sure. As I said, sadly my mother is no longer around now but she would still remember.

Simon: And she then extended the name somewhere else or perhaps it was already. And then what was the next stage after that?

Jane: Well the early 1950s, they came through to Ryde, and it was Henry Pack & Co and you go through the old Kelly’s Directory you can see Packs and that’s why the main Packs building where French Franks is now, you’ve still got the name Packs on the entrance there, on the sort of middle window, and so they bought early 1950s, they purchased the main Packs business …

Simon: That’s a big building.

Jane: It’s a very big building, absolutely and I’ve made a quick list of the different Departments, and there was also Seaview, which was also a Cullifords, and that’s why Pack and Cullifords came into being because you already had the Cullifords name and then of course you had the Packs name.