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Can you remember your recruitment and time at Lewis’s? Were you a management trainee?As I recall, we were all invited to the presentation evening for our ‘success ‘ in passing various years of exams. Any memories of this?

I was amongst that congregation as well! As posted earlier I was in the 1961 intake, although the others in the photograph were the NRDC progressive students from earlier years!

Sorry if I am breaching any rules! Managed to copy the above mentioned photo. Purely to demonstrate the locale of the shops previously on Colmore Row/ Great western Arcade.

If you look at the forum for Snow Hill Station, there is a photo of the Kardomah coffee shop on the one corner of The Great Western Arcade and Boots on the other corner. I think that Barnabys took over oneor the other in the early 1960’s. Unfortunately I am not clever enough to copy same across...

The paternoster lifts at Aston were very scary when first used, and that fear was always there! What happens if I miss the top floor ( do they fold up)? Also the same trepidation if one missed the ground floor?Also what happens if it breaks down between floors? I know some students there thought...

As I recall, very much so. They certainly knew how to do it and it was the ‘place to go’. Clever marketing, and for those who visited Father Christmas and the grotto, whether they paid for a present, or just wanted to walk through the experience discovered that when they came out of that...

Thank you for these memories. I believe that they sum up all that I have posted! I very much appreciate your efforts.

I must mention one important local toy manufacturer who probably achieved a great deal with child development. Chad Valley Toys of Harborne were the makers of a variety of soft toys and teddy bears. They also produced many games. I will leave this particular thread open to others who would know...

Apologies to Rita ...mentioned in my last paragraph....It should read. Rota

Lewis’s Toy Department in the early 1960 was split into four areas. Again from memory one was called big toys, such as swings, slides little roundabouts and prams. Then there was the small toys such as dolls and soft toys. I will add that this section also included Pelham puppets, which I...

Returning to the Toy Department on the 5 th floor. My title refers to the fact that for at least a year apart from management I was the only male on the counters. The one major attraction on my watch was the magnificent 8 foot by 8 foot demonstration model railway. All items on this were Triang...

From memory if one looked towards The Minories from Temple Row , the B block was on the left. From that street level you could walk into the store or the Travel Bureau ( staff discount applied to all holidays etc). Above that was the Bank, as previous people have posted. Somewhere I still have...

Sorry for not attaching last time, new to this!

I believe that is a picture of the Martins bank staff ( Lewis’s bank). If it is allowed, this is a copy I downloaded some time ago. I cannot remember who posted it!

Having left school and moving into the working environment It was very strange when talking to colleagues by using their Christian names! I considered myself to be a polite young man and was only used to referring to my elders by their surname. I remember Maisie White and Silvana amongst many...

Imagine the scene back in September 1961? I was one of about fifteen (16/ 17 year old) new recruits to this icon of shopping delight, with the title of management trainee. As a group we had probably enjoyed our extended summer holidays as we were waiting for our GCE ‘O’ level results and Lewis’s...

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