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From: "Ann" <>
Subject: Re: [NORTHWICH] Re: [CHS] Drapers' Shops
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:45:45 -0000
References: <003601c5dffe$d78e4680$0100a8c0@FAMILYROOM> <003201c5e227$9aa84c90$60958351@your582a2b718a>

Tony,
Firstly- hi.

You have my attention
Which shop was that?
Was it Platts?
Sorry to show my ignorance but the flood missed me by 10 years (lol)
Regards
Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: "A BARRATT" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 4:40 PM
Subject: [NORTHWICH] Re: [CHS] Drapers' Shops


> Hi
>
> Jackson's didn't have a rocking horse like Coombes though!!
>
> As for drinking inn the Witton Chimes I hope you did not disturb my
> answers who lived in Bebington's Yard the previous use of the site
>
> Re the furniture in Jackson's. My fathers shop just a few door up had the
> same type of fixtures some of which were smashed to pieces in the 1946
> flood, which also left a tide mark around the walls which no amount of
> paint would obscure.
>
> Regards to all
> Tony Barratt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ann" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHS] Drapers' Shops
>
>
>>I got my name tapes done at Coombes
>> but remember having a tea cake and a cup of tea at Jackson's
>> upstairs
>> Oh weren't we posh back in those days with waitress service and all black
>> dress and little white pinny with a little white hat
>>
>> Ann
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Elaine Hanson" <>
>> To: "Ann" <>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:59 PM
>> Subject: FW: [CHS] Drapers' Shops
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Elaine Hanson [mailto:]
>>> Sent: 02 November 2005 21:58
>>> To: Mrs L. McCulloch
>>> Subject: RE: [CHS] Drapers' Shops
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Subject: [CHS] Drapers' Shops
>>>
>>> Hi Lynn,
>>>
>>> Are we talking of Jacksons?
>>> Wonderful old wooden fixtures and fittings.ladies undies etc. kept in
>>> drawers(forgive the pun). You could get your school name labels done
>>> there.
>>> Up stairs was a cafe where you got table service and cream cakes.
>>>
>>> Elaine.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone remember that old fashioned Draper's Shop in Northwich on
>>> the
>>> other side of the road from Bratts' Store? They used to sell gloves,
>>> stockings, bedding, soft furnishings, ribbons, buttons and probably
>>> corsets? Regards, Lyn
>>>
>>>
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