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ShopsKEGWORTH. Co-op. The Community Centre .. was created by the conversion of premises that formerly housed the Co-op, built in 1903, with its butchery, grocery and drapers departments. Each department conveyed money to a central cashier's desk in containers, propelled by elastic, which ran on overhead tracks; receipts and change were returned by the same means." Kegworth Village Association and museum. Down the Dragwell (2009) LEICESTER. Beehive (drapers), Silver
Street. Extensive Cash Ball and ? wire systems. Shop closed in 1962. Part of system was reinstalled in Wygston's House, Leicester Museum of Costume (Leicester Chronicle, 19 Apr. 1974, p. 13). It was later transferred to the Newarke Houses Museum. (I saw
in both locations.) LEICESTER. Bennetts (hardware). Wire system in 1950s. (H.Boynton) LEICESTER. Co-op. Overhead wire system. Not open before WW1. (Don Hurd posting to Leicestershire-Plus-L list, 10 Jun 1999). "To see and hear cash disappearing in capsules up magical tubes to disappear to Lord knows where, what wonders!" Membership matters: newsletter for Midlands Co-op members, Sept. 2006, p.6 LEICESTER. Crowe and Co. "Drapery. - Wanted at once, a young Lady for Cash Railway Desk. - Crowe and Co. (Leicester Limited), drapers, Leicester. Stamford Mercury, 8 Jun. 1900, p. 5 LEICESTER. "Provision store on Hotel Street, possibly R.L.Ackinson at no. 18" . Photograph showing three Rapid Wire stations in Images of Leicester (Derby: Breedon Books, 1995) p. 91. There is a smaller version in Hollins. LEICESTER. Freeman, Hardy and Willis (shoe shop), Cheapside. Pneumatic tube system until ca. 1970. (L.Hammond and personal recollection) LEICESTER. Grices and Cordells, High Street. "Among other shops using the fascinating system during my 1950s/60s boyhood were .. Grice's." Leicestershire Live website LEICESTER. Hawkins (drapers), Cheapside. Wire system in 1950s. H.Boynton LEICESTER. Herringtons (drapers), Market Street. Cash carrier. H. Boynton LEICESTER. Hope Bros (gents' outfitters), Gallowtree Gate. Pneumatic tube system. H.Boynton LEICESTER. W.E.Lea & Sons, Charles Street/Humberstone Gate. “You put the money in a chute which shot across the room to a cashier who sent the change back.” Leicestershire Live website LEICESTER. Lewis's (dept store), Humberstone
Gate. "Lewis's had a modern vacuum system. Your transaction was
inserted into a metal container, this was set on its way down a pipe and
returned a minute later accompanied by a loud plop." Leicester Mercury,
12 Dec. 2005, p.16. Also personal recollection. Approximately 60 pneumatic tubes. Leicester Mercury 3 Sep. 2010 LEICESTER. Melia Bros (grocers), Gallowtree Gate. Pneumatic tube system. H.Boynton LEICESTER. Midland Educational, Market Street. Pneumatic tube system on at least three floors. A favourite haunt for books and Meccano. Also H.Boynton LEICESTER. R.Morley & Sons (family draper), 14 Cheapside. "Then on to Morley's to buy some cotton (just loved the overhead cash system there)." Leicester Mercury 14 Sep. 2000, p.14 . (Also H.Boynton). There are photographs of the exterior and interior in Paul and Yolanda Courtney. The changing face of Leicester (Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1995) p.81 LEICESTER. Henry Raiment (grocers), Granby Street, opposite Grand Hotel. Tube system. T.W.Buxton and H.Boynton LEICESTER. Simpkin and James (high-class
grocers), Market Place. Pneumatic tube system. Specification. Carrier was still
operating in 1950s. My recollection and H.Boynton LEICESTER. Smiths (outfitters and toys), High Street. Tube system in 1950s. The source of my school uniforms! Also H.Boynton LEICESTER. Vickers Mount (grocers), 31/33 Gallowtree
Gate. "Wanted, smart young ladies for cash desks. Preference given to those used to cash railway." Leicester Daily Post, 29 Mar. 1919, p. 3 LOUGHBOROUGH. Pickworths. Wire system. Quorndon Magazine, Summer 2002 LOUGHBOROUGH. Young, Pilsbury & Young, 36-37 High Street. "Messrs. Garton .. are now instructed .. to sell by auction .. the whole of the valuable drapery trade shop fixtures and fittings, etc., including .. 'Dart' cash carrier system serving 5 counters." Leicester Evening Mail, 19 Nov. 1949, p. 11 MELTON MOWBRAY. Co-op. Wire system. "Another memorable shop in Melton was the Co-op. The best thing here was the wonderful system of obtaining change. There were no tills at the counters, so if you paid with a ten shilling note, this was put with details of your purchase into a metal cylinder, and sent by overhead wire to the cashier who worked in an office high up on one wall. She would put in your change and send it back down to the shop assistants. Three of the overhead wires ran to counters in the shop, but others ran through holes in the wall to the Co-op butcher and cobbler next door! The cylinders were sent up to the cashier by a spring mchanism, but came back by means of gravity" David Bell: Those were the days: Leicestershire in the forties, fifties and sixties. (Newbury: Countryside Books, 2001), p.58 MELTON MOWBRAY. Maypole. Wire system. T.W.Buxton Museums
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