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Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention. PART THREE. Lewis's Gardening Dept comprised of 3 sections and the way we remembered them were as follows, Button 1 on the till M16 Anything that grows, Button 2 on the till M17 Anything that doesn't grow, Button 3 on the till M18 Garden Furniture. At the...

Are You Being Served. PART TWO. I think every department had their version of Mrs Slocombe in those days, in the Gardening dept we certainly did even down to her having a pussy (cat for those with a lively mind). Proprieties and the fact I don't fancy being sued means that I won't be...

It all Happened By Chance PART ONE. Originally on leaving school I'd had no thoughts about working at Lewis's, in fact I had secured a job at MORGAN & BALLS High Class Tailors in New Street for the princely sum of £3 per week, but on my way back to catch my bus home I just thought on impulse...

Known as "THE GRAND LOUVRE"

I think they had a "FURNITURE DEPOSITORY" somewhere in Hockley.

That's never the Birmingham Store?

Miss Selfridge Girls

Interesting, can't imagine Joe Carney playing Father Christmas. Stafff entrance between the buses.

Do mean Upper and Lower Priory?

I will never get the hang of this, I can't figure out how to cancel this bit. Sorry.

Hi There the lady in the photo was a nice Irish girl named PAM, and yes I was the Manager of the Warwick Cinema in Acocks Green for 12 years. Kind regards Chris.

I was a Manager / Floor Walker in the High Street Store and Mr Izatt or his wife purchased goods from my departments, so I only knew him in passing. So sorry no stories etc about him.

A bit of a fearsome character, his wife was not very well I think it may have been altzheimers but we hadn't heard of it in those days. I think he died in 2011