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Unfortunately the file was one that had been destroyed - apparently a certain amount are when time has passed. But I'll know what to do next time.

Thank you!

Thanks, lyn, I'll do that.

Could someone remind me how to find the report of an inquest? An ancestor of my husband's was killed in an accident in Islington in 1928. I've found lots of newspaper reports of the accident, but we would like to know what actually happened. (That sounds a bit odd!)

Were there shops on the balconies? It looks as if there could be. There's something very glamorous and mysterious about the arcades.

I think I remember a branch of Werff as you crossed from Lewis's going towards Rackhams. This was in the 1980s - I bought a colourful skirt there.

My mother lived in Gordon Street before the war, and their house was bombed - must have been one of the houses you mention. I didn't realise the maisonettes replaced them. Maria

I remember the fairs, Lynn. I used to have picnics in the park with my sister sometimes. I had a friend in one of the maisonettes in Gordon Street. Maria

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.