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Lewis's Department Store

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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 to this forum, or even if I am allowed.
 
oh the memories, my girl friend and l would first hit Lewis's basement, to listen to the latest record of the pop music ,like nat king cole..Johney ray'' frankie lane and many more. then it was across the street to the Kardomah for a cup of tea and beans on toast for 1/6, this was in the early 1950s, how times have changed but the memories are still with me.
 
brenda barr said:
oh the memories, my girl friend and l would first hit Lewis's basement, to listen to the latest record of the pop music ,like nat king cole..Johney ray'' frankie lane and many more. then it was across the street to the Kardomah for a cup of tea and beans on toast for 1/6, this was in the early 1950s, how times have changed but the memories are still with me.
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That is what makes BHF SO good, those memories just keep getting rekindled! BTW coffee with my beans on toast :).
 
mikejee said:
I hope you don't think I'm being pernickety, Wendy, but the Minories were there long before Lewis's. In the late eighteenth century there were the Upper Minories and the Lower Minories. The present Minories (in so far as the old maps were not very accurately surveyed) seems to be approximately on the site of the Upper Minories . The 1889 map shows the south west end as being the site of the church of St Thomas the Warner (?). there was once a priory in this area. A Minoress was a nun, so there must be a clerical connection to the name.
Mike
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Do mean Upper and Lower Priory?
 
Chris
I think that statement was made before the appropriate maps were as available today, and was incorrect. Have added note to that effect
 
Martinmccabe said:
Astoness said:
not sure if this is a new one...dated 1950s

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Staff Entrancwe
If I remember rightly he used to arrive a few weeks before Father Christmas and walk around the store preparing the way for FC.In 1965 I worked in the publicity department of Lewis`s and Uncle Holly was our responsibility. The Uncle Holly in Birmingham was a tall very dignified ex actor. He would come into our office in his normal clothes, disappear into a back room and then emerge in all his glory as Uncle Holly.
I believe that Mr Carney the manager of the ticket office (posters etcetera) which was next door to our office sometimes played Father Christmas.
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Interesting, can't imagine Joe Carney playing Father Christmas. Stafff entrance between the buses.
 
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?
 
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