Doreen

I remember Farmers store very well . Bu one thing i can remember was the Queen etc was coming to. Nottingham think it was to the council house .the streets all round were full of people waiting to see the royal visitors and staff at Farmers were looking out the windows up stairs when a member of staff fell out . Cant remember what happened to the person as this was probably the late 50s . Can anyone else remember this ? .

Thank you Trevor I am really enjoying living the past .

I've just had a thought relating to Toby's, in my loft some where Ive got some Beswick horses brought from Royal Doulton in Tobys i also have a number of Toby jugs and charactor jugs. But Ive got one Toby Jug that actually says underneath it Toby's department store .these were not sold in my time so they were sold before 1957 infact when I first started in 57 I remember there were some photos in the canteen taken 2 or 3 years before celebrating Toby's being open 25 yrs the Toby jugs could have been made and sold to celebrate that but not defiantly sure , it could have been when they o

Thank you I enjoyed writing about Toby's and have a lot of stories I could tell .

I remember Joan Peck very well .she was a very nice lady always got a smile on her face and ready for a good laugh .by the time Joan started I had moved off the counters and worked in the office so if the staff needed bags of change for there tills they had to come to my office which was called the Cash desk , another part of my job was answering the switch board , and all the staff had to hand their hand bags into me at the office they weren't allowed to take them on to their counters this was of course before Toby's supplied them with lockers .

I knew your uncle very well . Eric Harrison he was a really nice chap his office was in what we called Rogers offices it was where all the buyers etc had there offices . Eric was a really hard worker and he was always very pleasant and had time for everyone although I was only 15 when I started and quite shy . Eric always had time to talk to me .they were very good years at Toby's .

Toby's was a Department store very well known for its Cut glass and china although it sold just about everything . Even when I started in 1957 about a month befor Nov 5th it sold fireworks A week before I had to fetch a explosives certificate can't remember where from .then every evening about half hour befor if closed I had to put all the fire works in a big metal dustbin ant take it to the top of the building and lock it in a room there was nothing else in the room . Then fetch them down every morning it was a chore but it had to be done . .

I am 73 yrs old and I started work at Toby's age 15 on may 9th 1957 I knew Joan Peck very well although she started a lot later than me .I worked there till June 1965 when I left to have my first baby Toby's then was owned by Mrs Blythen and her Nephew Mr H R Hartley was the managing Director and a miss Juet was the Manageress I Started in the Basement selling soap powders etc for me they were great years and I can still name a lot of the staff from those days . Anyway I left in 65 had 2 boys then went back in 72 when boys were both at school I went back in the office and I was there till t