Barrows Stores

[Vivienne14]

The store had its own challenges during WW1. Staff shortages meant they had to adapt. And a fire did considerable damage to the ground floor. But they seem to have rallied round by the 1920s.


Source: British Newspaper Archive


Photos from the Library of Birmingham Archives

 

[Gerry Cannell]

As I mentioned earlier, even in 1956/7 we had to wear a celluloid collar with stud and dicky bow. and I was on the vegetable counter just on the right inside the main entrance !

 

[Richard Dye]

The store had its own challenges during WW1. Staff shortages meant they had to adapt. And a fire did considerable damage to the ground floor. But they seem to have rallied round by the 1920s.

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Photos from the Library of Birmingham Archives

I have great memories of Barrows & Lewis’s walking through them both on a Saturday with my mother, onto C&A (I think) then on to Grays. If we went later in the day I might get a bag of hot potatoes before boarding the 29 bus home.