Lewis's Department Store

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Thu 29 Dec, 2011 6:57 pm

As a youngun early 1960's in Lewis's there was a uniformed bloke who operated the lift with a 'big shoe', ie one leg shorter than t'other. Fascinated me.One of those early childhood recollections was the whole round red Edams at face level in glass counter in Lewis's Foodhall, Ground floor (but down steps from Wade Lane - then with traffic).They also had a cooked chicken counter, and as a customer in the late 1970's I was buying and recognised the "Greenwood's Jewellers' Watch Mender Bloke. He was ?Polish/East European and was rumoured to have survived the Concentration Camps.

shaunandelly · Post by **shaunandelly** » Sat 31 Dec, 2011 4:18 pm

I remember the toy department and they had one of those radioactive machines to stick your feet in to see if your shoes were fitting properly.

simpotts · Post by **simpotts** » Sun 01 Jan, 2012 10:51 pm

Just as a sidenote.,yesterday channel on freeview has today started a run of the series. 'A woman of substance'starring jenny seagrove.i remember seeing this as a child in early 80s i think and remembet quite a lot of scenes later in the series featured lewis's.,albeit with a different name for the show.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 01 Jan, 2012 11:19 pm

shaunandelly wrote: I remember the toy department and they had one of those radioactive machines to stick your feet in to see if your shoes were fitting properly. Those machines appeared at quite a lot of shoe shops at one time, but I seem to recall that they were eventually banned because of the slight radiation risk to unshielded tissue ?? I may be wrong as it seems a long time ago.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Thu 31 May, 2012 8:05 pm

Just found a photo

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Fri 01 Jun, 2012 9:24 am

Looks like the New Briggate side.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Thu 07 Jun, 2012 9:28 am

LS1 wrote: Looks like the New Briggate side. Indeed it is - this is confirmed by the presence of the tramway overhead wires - but don't wait there any longer for a "Roundhay via Harehills" sadly.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Thu 07 Jun, 2012 12:34 pm

Blakey good one.My untrained eye assumed the Headrow .Leodis has a sub-section "Lewis's" with nice new-build photos - link below:-http://tinyurl.com/7o3jk8t = Lewis's.The general Leodis "discoverLeeds" =http://www.leodis.net/discovery/default.asp

tuskey · Post by **tuskey** » Sat 09 Jun, 2012 12:30 pm

Jogon wrote: Just found a photo hi to all, i remember those shoe machines, they had them in all the shoe shops, i always went to barratts on comercial street when i was a kid, and my feet used to tingle when i had had my feet measured. the photo of lewis's looks good. good old days.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Sat 30 Jun, 2012 11:40 am

From about 6:04 on this youtube a single decker bus comes down Woodhouse Ln which then followed a straight line onto the Headrow between Lewis's with the old Schofields across the Headrow. http://youtu.be/iDnSe4RVVI4So for younger viewers, that's between Direct Line House (visible right of film) and Sainsburys (then Lewis's). Roughly same view now http://goo.gl/maps/ehw1 Apart from that some good shots of the old Market 5:41current http://goo.gl/maps/NvYB