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LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 16 Mar 2024 19:48

Liberty's is very up market but not for me :-D

Von

Von Report 16 Mar 2024 19:47

I like Liberty’s ;-) ;-)

Like the fabrics,children’s clothes, books and cards ;-) ;-)

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 16 Mar 2024 19:47

I see that the staff at Wrose and JL are not getting a bonus for the second year running. How long before it is cut out altogether?

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 16 Mar 2024 19:46

I think it must have come from the same suppliers, as the panels on the Titanic went down with the ship on it's maiden voyage :-(

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 16 Mar 2024 19:45

So is Liberty a bit like Selfridges…selling all sorts :-D :-D

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 16 Mar 2024 19:45

John Spedan Lewis that is. :-D :-D

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 16 Mar 2024 19:44

I'm not keen on Liberty's either although it was fab if you were into fabrics :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 16 Mar 2024 19:44

Ah misunderstood MG :-D

Wow the Titanic :-0

Von

Von Report 16 Mar 2024 19:42

Thank you Ann <3

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 16 Mar 2024 19:41

Sent Von :-D

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 16 Mar 2024 19:41

I didnt say Waite was Welsh. John Lewis came from Wales. :-D :-D

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 16 Mar 2024 19:41

Well that is interesting Ann....David Taylor didn't make a good choice though :-D :-D

MotownGal

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.

**Ann**

**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

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 16 Mar 2024 19:38

Perhaps John Lewis knew Master Waite, Maddie ;-) :-D

Von

Von Report 16 Mar 2024 19:38

Where’s my pic :-(

**Ann**

**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

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 16 Mar 2024 19:37

Evening Von <3 :-D

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 16 Mar 2024 19:37

I just forwarded it to Maddie too ;-) :-D

MotownGal

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