I worked for the Co Op in Lower Parliament Street (on records and gardening) and also Ascot Road delivery. I can remember the ball room from going there with my mother when very young to have tea. Later I worked there with the banks opposite the lifts, and the ball room having the gardening department which was moved from the basement in about 1977. Ascot Road was a happy place. The old Bedford vans worked when they wanted to. I dreaded moving bedroom fitments as they were the heaviest to carr