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Started by: irene (2901) 

As I said, Jazzy, I started at Debenhams in August 1973 and I turned 21 in October. Miss Evans bought me a Wedgewood bud vase with a Poppy design on which I still have on display in my house 42 years later! At Christmas, she bought all her staff, (three or four of us), a gift, and mine was "Memoire Cherie" perfume; I THINK it was by Elizabeth Arden, but I too recall the sickly, pungent smell of Youth Dew, and I didn't even work on that counter! I got married in January 1974 and, as I have said, worked until I left to have my son Jamie, who will be 39 at the end of this month. I remember Miss Holland's sister worked there, and was married to one of the management, but I can't recall their surname......it will come to me eventually; I recall telling him I was fed up with dusting the curtain dept. one day, and he said, "Well, you might be dead tomorrow and then you'll wish you were dusting"! (Very true!). Barbara Wilcox lived with her Mother and ran the scouts/cubs at The Queens Hall. Debenhams once had a Christmas Dance at Ince Public Hall and someone bought her a "Pony", which was a little bottle of sherry, and she panicked and said, "Don't tell me mother I've had a sherry".......she was 36 at the time! Do you remember Olive who worked in accounts, and the lady with beautifully manicured nails who took the floats off us at the end of the day? Brian Towers? Frank Webb? Mr. Peach in DCB, which was situated in the yard outside? Julie Howard, (later Ward), was his assistant, and Julie and I later worked together at Boots, where Julie still works.

Replied: 10th Nov 2015 at 10:06

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