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Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 46,978 Send Message	Ann	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:25
	Flying around London….found a really old pic of a couple of well known shops….will send :-D :-D
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 87,349 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:28
	Was that the Waitrose of today Ann :-0 :-D
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Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 87,349 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:28
	Liberty's still looks like that today :-D :-D
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Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 46,978 Send Message	Ann	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:29
	Yes Belle. The young Master Waite at the age of 11 served his apprenticeship here in Wales…Pontypool :-D
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 87,349 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:30
	So Waite & Rose must have merged.....bet Taylor is kicking himself ;-) :-D :-D
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Member Since: June 2009 Posts: 13,639 Send Message	MotownGal	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:31
	Evening Belle and Ann :-D <3 <3
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Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 87,349 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:32
	The only thing different in that second piccie of Liberty's is the colour :-D :-D
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Member Since: June 2009 Posts: 13,639 Send Message	MotownGal	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:33
	Where is me photo? ;-) ;-) John Lewis came from Wales. :-)
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Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 87,349 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:34
	Evening Maddie <3 :-D Ann just sent me an old piccie of one of your favourite stores ;-) :-D :-D
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Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 87,349 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:35
	It's not John Lewis :-D :-D
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Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 46,978 Send Message	Ann	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:35
	Evening MG <3 <3 Sent the pic :-D
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 25,694 Send Message	Von	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:35
	Good evening :-D <3 Just going to read back so as I’m up to speed ;-) ;-)
Member Since: June 2009 Posts: 13,639 Send Message	MotownGal	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:37
	Evening Von :-D <3 I was just saying, out of interest, John Lewis came from Wales. :-D :-D
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Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 87,349 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:37
	I just forwarded it to Maddie too ;-) :-D
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Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 87,349 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:37
	Evening Von <3 :-D
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Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 46,978 Send Message	Ann	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:38
	WAITE Wallace Wyndham Waite had been born in East Grinstead in 1881, but later imagined he was from Wales and left school aged 10 and became an apprentice. At the age of 16 with £1 in his pocket he arrived in London. In 1901 he was a grocers’ assistant lodging in Paddington. In 1908 he married a Kathleen in Somerset and they soon had a daughter, Barbara. Between 1909-1913 they lived at 3a Stuart Road, Acton, with Waite’s mother and an apprentice grocer, aged 17, called James Cozens. He was the shop’s main buyer. ROSE Arthur Edward Rose was born in London in 1879 and lived in Ealing Green as a clerk; in 1910 he married his business partner Waite’s sister, Bertha, in Herefordshire and they lived at 46 Drayton Avenue and 106 Mayfield Avenue in West Ealing, where they had three children. He dealt with the finances, having once worked for a solicitor in Edinburgh. Interestingly, neither family had a servant. AND TAYLOR The third of the trio was David Taylor, who was the shop manager, but he left the others in 1906 and returned to his former employ at Messrs Coopers. :-D :-D
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 25,694 Send Message	Von	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:38
	Where’s my pic :-(
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 87,349 Send Message	LondonBelle	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:38
	Perhaps John Lewis knew Master Waite, Maddie ;-) :-D
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Member Since: October 2005 Posts: 46,978 Send Message	Ann	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:40
	Waite was not from Wales MG….he left school at 10 years old and was apprenticed in Wales…for a few years I think :-) Evening Von <3 <3
Member Since: June 2009 Posts: 13,639 Send Message	MotownGal	Report	16 Mar 2024 19:40
	Liberty is exactly the same. Not one of my favourite stores I must be honest. Some of the panelling in the shop came from the Titanic.
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