Thompson's Red Stamp Store, Staff - Blackhall (blac0050)

Photograph of the staff of Thompson's Red Stamp Store, Blackhall, photographed outside the shop; the photograph shows two men wearing white coats and aprons, one man wearing a white overall, one woman wearing an overall, and one woman dressed in normal indoor clothes; behind the group, the windows of the shop may be seen containing pyramids of tins and an indistinct advertisement for bath cubes.

Thompson's Red Stamp Store, Staff - Blackhall

Photograph of the staff of Thompson's Red Stamp Store, Blackhall, photographed outside the shop; the photograph shows two men wearing white coats and aprons, one man wearing a white overall, one woman wearing an overall, and one woman dressed in normal indoor clothes; behind the group, the windows of the shop may be seen containing pyramids of tins and an indistinct advertisement for bath cubes.

Date: 1930 - 1939

mment: red stamp stores had a chain of stores headquarters in Gateshead I worked in a branch in Manchester St Morpeth Northumberland. In the fifties they sold groceries and kitchen ware. Once a year they closed all and had a staff outing to various seaside resorts. When I Worked there my surname was Clark. The Manager was a Mr. Cockburn.

Comment added by Middlemass on 16/10/2008 14:54:00

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