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With all those animals, it must have taken up a whole floor!

It was such an interesting building inside, the way everything joined up and you could suddenly be in another department you hadn't quite known was there! Also all the coffee bars in various places.

Someone told me that at Easter there used to be chicks on the roof garden. Pet's corner must have been really big if they had that many birds as well as other animals. I wonder if any othere Lewis's had a pet's corner. I know the Bristol branch had a roof garden. Really wish I could remember...

It sounds quite serious. It disappeared before my time.

I know I was taken to the roof garden but can't remember it, so perhaps I was taken to pet's corner as well. I wonder who looked after the animals. Do you know when it stopped being there?

I remember the children's hairdressing department very vaguely, but not pet's corner, which sounds nice.

My school also had had a cadet corps, but it didn't exist by the time I went there. I wonder what happened to the uniforms and equipment.

Zeph Gladstone, who played Vera Downend, turned up in an episode of Public Eye (I was given the set of DVDs recently). I recognised her and her name in the credits, but can't remember anything about the character. Vera is one of those old-fashioned names that hasn't come around again yet. We...

Had anyone heard of urban geography? I hadn't. As for using teachers' first names....I kept in touch with one teacher long after I'd left school. She suggested I use her first name, but it was impossible She was always Miss X!

I knew that some suffragettes learned ju-jitsu, but was hazy on the details. It seems very unlikely that it was taught in any schools, I agree (even Cheltenham Ladies' College, where I believe they are quite sporty!)

We were still using the benches in the PE lesson that we saw in the 1960s. And the bunny-hops brought back memories!

Lyn, it's the Viking Museum. It's a long time since I've been there, but I seem to remember being transported in a sort of fairground ride through the exhibits!!

I wonder if the BBC will do a hospital through the ages programme next?

Did anyone see this, a series that started this week? They're using a school in Coventry, and the pupils and teachers are from the midlands. A bit of it was filmed at the Black Country Museum. It began in the 1890s with a class of fifteen! Surely fifty would have been more accurate, but harder...

Oh yes, the perfume department! It was where I bought my first bottle of Guerlain's Jicky. Never investigated the wedding dress dept. Was it on a special floor? At one time (1980s?) didn't they have a sort of ladies' club, where you could go and sit down or write a letter? I think it was...

Rackhams Christmas toy fair used to have some good displays.

The book of the week on Radio 4 this week has been Sylvia Plath's letters. It reminded me of the time Mr Hedley brought in a record of Plath reading her poems. This would have been in the late 1960s.

We also took a radio with us in the car, an A40. We had a rather nice picnic set which included a spirit stove and a kettle with a bamboo handle, and I can still remember the smell. Tomato sandwiches used to feature! The picnic set was left in a garage and the case rotted. Dad was a bit upset as...

I isten to Radio 4 a lot.

I don't think I had any quite like that, though was always measured with the intriguing ruler on a stool thing (don't know what they're called!)