Jane Gibbs – Memories of Packs

Jane: I remember coming … because when I was living in Miss Pack, you could cut through the car park. You went in through the back door there to the Shoe Department, which was wonderful, wonderful shoes, and then you’d go down the stairs and there’d be the Hosiery Department right in the front and then up the stairs were the dresses and the Bridal dresses. I often went to The Coffee Bean, which was the Café up there, and I used to meet my friend who worked in Barclays funny enough, and we used to have a jacket potato or a scone and butter and yeah, that was lovely, it was lovely up there. Really lovely ladies and quite successful I believe.

I do remember the scones were amazing. I think … for me it was a snack meeting her there, and she would always … I think she used to have a jacket potato or something like that but I do remember the scones were lovely. And it was weird because years later, I … when Fowler’s which was the opposition across the road opened, I was for a while I was the Manager of their little Café upstairs which was called ‘The Pantry’ which was on a similar vein to The Coffee Bean.