Lewis's Department Store

simong · Post by **simong** » Fri 12 Sep, 2008 3:49 pm

Bramley4woods wrote: As an aside one wonders who actually owned and operated these on small Railway Stations (Such as Kirkstall), these and the chocolate vending machines. Seems to be quite a lot of restocking / admin etc work involved for 2 or 3 coppers per day. They were generally owned by the companies whose product they vended, and someone would be employed to do a 'round' to make sure that they were maintained and filled. A lot of these machines, particularly those attached to the walls of shops, survived for a long time because they weren't the property of the shop, and still technically belonged to W.H. Wills in the case of the once-ubiquitous Woodbine machine.There could be our next search - are there still any wall mounted cigarette or chocolate machines extant on the streets of Leeds?

ARGIE · Post by **ARGIE** » Fri 12 Sep, 2008 6:03 pm

Some old shots of Lewis's......

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sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Fri 12 Sep, 2008 8:46 pm

simong wrote: Bramley4woods wrote: As an aside one wonders who actually owned and operated these on small Railway Stations (Such as Kirkstall), these and the chocolate vending machines. Seems to be quite a lot of restocking / admin etc work involved for 2 or 3 coppers per day. They were generally owned by the companies whose product they vended, and someone would be employed to do a 'round' to make sure that they were maintained and filled. A lot of these machines, particularly those attached to the walls of shops, survived for a long time because they weren't the property of the shop, and still technically belonged to W.H. Wills in the case of the once-ubiquitous Woodbine machine.There could be our next search - are there still any wall mounted cigarette or chocolate machines extant on the streets of Leeds? Hi simong Dont forget the chewing gum machines i think it was xp chewing gum that had an arrow on the knob at the side when it got to quarterpast you got two for your penny.We spent hours walking round to find one that was going to drop two for one penny.I must say there were plenty of the machines about.

thermionic · Post by **thermionic** » Mon 06 Oct, 2008 11:10 pm

Thanks riclam for linking to my pre-redevelopment photos of Lewis's/Allders, I noticed some of the links don't work due to the URLs running together so (blatant self-publicity) here's a new link to the whole set of pictures...http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnee/set ... 2/Cheers,T

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Mon 06 Oct, 2008 11:19 pm

sundowner wrote: Hi simong Dont forget the chewing gum machines i think it was xp chewing gum that had an arrow on the knob at the side when it got to quarterpast you got two for your penny.We spent hours walking round to find one that was going to drop two for one penny.I must say there were plenty of the machines about. I think it was XL chewing gum that had the arrow. There was also Beech Nut that didn't have an arrow.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Tue 07 Oct, 2008 12:16 am

Was it not KP? A 'two ball' rhyme we used to chant:KP penny packetFirst you chew it then you crack itThen you stick it to your jacketKP penny packetBeech Nut - I think the pack was sort of sickly green wasn't it?

Si · Post by Si » Tue 07 Oct, 2008 9:40 am

thermionic wrote: Thanks riclam for linking to my pre-redevelopment photos of Lewis's/Allders, I noticed some of the links don't work due to the URLs running together so (blatant self-publicity) here's a new link to the whole set of pictures...http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnee/set ... 2/Cheers,T Those pictures bring back memories. I wonder who Miss Ward was?