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Hello Florence. The name Bakewell is familiar, but not Earp.

I do wish I could remember the roof garden - and the lifts! I remember the Corocraft (jewellery) counter, and the strange way you never quite knew what you were going to find around the next corner , or that's how it seemed to me. It was almost magical the way bits of the building linked up.

I've always wondered what happened to the fittings when it closed down. Auctioned, I suppose. It was one of my favourite shops when I lived in Birmingham, and has so many memories of meeting friends in the coffee bars, of which there were many.

I don't rememember the Japanese crab. The roaring dinosaur is one thing that stands out in my memory, and the pterodactyl, which I think was suspended over the mummy gallery. There was, I think, a black New Look dress or suit in a glass case somewhere, in a secluded area.

I think I remember them. They were very small, miniature really - or that's how they seemed.

It must have taken for ever to make ice cream! I didn't realise (though probably should have) that there was training available in the 1920s for people running shops.

Anyone watching this? It's the usual structure, a family travels through time, on this occasion running a corner shop in Sheffield. I don't think we really had a corner shop, though perhaps I just can't remember.

Would it be Dairy Crunch?

There was mention of banana split toffees earlier. Marks and Spencer have bags of assorted toffees in ice cream sundae flavours, and banana split is one of them.

That comes into a novel by A.S.Byatt, the word pobs, which I'd never heard. Her family was from the north, I think.

I remember the mummies, which were quite frightening even when I was an adult!

I heard it - really interesting.

That's okay - I'm glad to have the information. My parents must have gone to see her, I think.

I wish I could remember the Beehive.

Either way, you might get a nice surprise!

There was something really special about Lewis's. The other day there as a programme about how High Streets are dying, and what people are trying to do about it. It's so sad. House of Fraser in Reading, near where I live, is getting a bowling alley!!

A friend who is a morris dancer once had to teach Paul Henry and others at the Rep some morris steps for a play. It was some time ago.

I vaguely remember Mrs Thursday: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159896/ There's even a DVD!

Also skipped through! I didn't know that Megs Jenkins and Jeremy Bulloch (Bob Cherry in the Billy Bunter series) were in it. It was interesting to see.

I will watch later, Maurice. I think there was a young boy and a grandmother (Gladys Henson?) I was once on the same bus as her, and she looked awfully bad-tempered!