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Shops in Middlesbrough

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Article ID:听: A4424140
Contributed on:听: 11 July 2005

From the Twenties and the Thiries until World War II began nearly everyone went window shopping. The shops stayed open on Fridays and Saturdays until 9 o'clock. Through the week they closed at five or six. All the shop windows were lit up. We would start at Gresham Road and keep to the left side of Linthorpe Road wandering down to the Railway Station then back up on the other side of the road. If the dress shops were having a sale on the Saturday the clothes were shown in the shop window on Friday nights. I remember buying a lovely blue dress from Jane Kay's for 7/6d, or nowadays 38p. It was smashing. Bit of course men's wages were 拢2 10 shillings to 拢3.

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Posted on: 11 July 2005 by postiepelly

I too remember all those lovely shops during the war Jean. I worked at Darnbrough's Leather Merchants, Toys and Sports Goods, in Corporation Road, next to 'Big Wesley Chapel'
where the British Home Stores now stands. My wage was 12/6 per week at 21 years old and I was in charge of toys and sports depts! The shop hours were 9am to 7pm Monday,Tuesday and Thursday. 1.00pm Wednesday; Friday 8.00pm; Saturday 9.00pm. During the run up to Xmas Eve, it was 8 or 9pm, but Xmas Eve, when the last customer had left at around midnight, and then we had to set the windows out again
before we could leave, so it would be well into Xmas Day by the time I got home. There was no Shop Assistants Union in those days, or if there was , a lot of shopowners must have been breaking the law!

Dorothy Pope [postiepelly]

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