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Who could forget Mr Chippendale and Mr Gillette?

Miss Windsor was one of my favourite teachers.

Mr Cherry didn't teach me but I knew him. He married Miss Windsor and they had two boys, I think.

Maisie was another name my cousin used to mention. I can't remember when Audrey retired, but probably in the 1980s. At her funeral several years ago I met Emily (I think it was Emily).

My father's cousin used to work there, if I've got the right place. Her name was Audrey and she worked with Iris, Olga and Emily. She used to talk about Mr Tim (that was how he was known). There was also Reuben.

The 1920s one is very smart. I remember chocolate smoking sets (!) licorice pipes, and the seaside novelties. I had a sweet shop and a Post Office!!

That's how I remember it.

They look very seventies, don't they?

Yes, heady days!

I remeber the Bull Ring one having a soda fountain, where you could have a milkshake in the sort of glass that you don't see now, and the one in New Street having (I think) three floors.

It was really good.

I also had Scholl sandals and a pair of their clogs. I don't know if the sandals are made now.

I'm not sure I had those exact ones, but lots of people did. You see them worn by children in in Ladybird books, too.

The penny tray! I think it was called.

Is that a black one on the end?? Licquorice?

Thank you - Tip Top sounds right!

I mentioned these to my husband yesterday and neither of us could remember the name. They came in a long thin plastic tube and I can remember a blue one - what could have been in it?!

I have memories of MAC's dance classes in the 1980s. There was a wonderful teacher who later went to work at the university (she was doing an MA there while teaching us). I have never found a better teacher. During one of her classes, Wayne Sleep, who was appearing in something at the...

I can't see that ever happening.

It seems quite popular these days.