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Topic Started: 10 Oct 2012, 05:59 AM (2,501 Views)
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Jackson's of Reading set to close after 137 years trading


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A department store founded in Reading in 1875 is facing closure because of the cost of maintaining the building and a drop in trade.

Jackson's has been trading for 137 years and still uses pneumatic pipes to transport cash around the building.

Managing director Brian Carter said retail had changed significantly and the store now had to cope with competition from the internet and large centres like the Oracle.

The 60 staff employed by Jackson's will now have to wait to see if the economic situation improves to save it from closure.


A shame, isn't it?!
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Hayes
10 Oct 2012, 03:17 PM
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10 Oct 2012, 01:13 PM
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10 Oct 2012, 01:08 PM
Hayes
10 Oct 2012, 12:46 PM
Remember the assisstant used to put the money in container and it would shoot across the ceiling to kiosk and your change would come back across to you
They still use the same system Hayes :-)
Anyone remember the original Burtons store at on the corner of Broad Street. They used to have the same system.
Went for my first job there and got it,but my mum put me off ,she said I would be working with a lot of crusty old men :D
And you end up on here as a" crusty old man " :D :D :D
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I'm sure I must have asked before (my memory isn't what it was since I retired :D ) but how about Bernie Inns?

The first time I ever took a girl out for a meal was to the Catherine Wheel which was the Bernie Inn in Henley. It was 1970 and we both had a meal, with an included dessert, and I got change from a £1 note.
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10 Oct 2012, 04:17 PM

The first time I ever took a girl out for a meal was to the Catherine Wheel which was the Bernie Inn in Henley. It was 1970 and we both had a meal, with an included dessert, and I got change from a £1 note.
Mine was a 'prom' concert, music fine, but experience a disaster - nothing happened!
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10 Oct 2012, 04:52 PM
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10 Oct 2012, 04:17 PM

The first time I ever took a girl out for a meal was to the Catherine Wheel which was the Bernie Inn in Henley. It was 1970 and we both had a meal, with an included dessert, and I got change from a £1 note.
Mine was a 'prom' concert, music fine, but experience a disaster - nothing happened!
To balance that story up David. As an apprentice electrician, at that time, my take home pay was around £9 per week. So it did cost around 10% of my weeks pay.
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10 Oct 2012, 04:01 PM
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10 Oct 2012, 03:18 PM
It's a shame,all the places I used to take my birds in the sixties are all gone :wub:
You used to take your birds to Jacksons?

You old romantic you :D :D :D
Well not quite ,might have used their doorway ;)

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10 Oct 2012, 04:09 PM
Hayes
10 Oct 2012, 03:17 PM
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10 Oct 2012, 01:13 PM
Batfloke
10 Oct 2012, 01:08 PM
Hayes
10 Oct 2012, 12:46 PM
Remember the assisstant used to put the money in container and it would shoot across the ceiling to kiosk and your change would come back across to you
They still use the same system Hayes :-)
Anyone remember the original Burtons store at on the corner of Broad Street. They used to have the same system.
Went for my first job there and got it,but my mum put me off ,she said I would be working with a lot of crusty old men :D
And you end up on here as a" crusty old man " :D :D :D
I teed you lot up for that :D :D

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daib0
10 Oct 2012, 04:52 PM
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10 Oct 2012, 04:17 PM

The first time I ever took a girl out for a meal was to the Catherine Wheel which was the Bernie Inn in Henley. It was 1970 and we both had a meal, with an included dessert, and I got change from a £1 note.
Mine was a 'prom' concert, music fine, but experience a disaster - nothing happened!
First serious girlfreind I took to the Granby then home to my flat ;)

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10 Oct 2012, 06:06 PM
SuffolkRoyal
10 Oct 2012, 04:01 PM
Hayes
10 Oct 2012, 03:18 PM
It's a shame,all the places I used to take my birds in the sixties are all gone :wub:
You used to take your birds to Jacksons?

You old romantic you :D :D :D
Well not quite ,might have used their doorway ;)
Lucky you were never hit by a trolleybus pole , they were always coming off on that junction with Duke st , often landed in the shops doorway ;)
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furiousgrumpywilliam
10 Oct 2012, 07:36 PM
Hayes
10 Oct 2012, 06:06 PM
SuffolkRoyal
10 Oct 2012, 04:01 PM
Hayes
10 Oct 2012, 03:18 PM
It's a shame,all the places I used to take my birds in the sixties are all gone :wub:
You used to take your birds to Jacksons?

You old romantic you :D :D :D
Well not quite ,might have used their doorway ;)
Lucky you were never hit by a trolleybus pole , they were always coming off on that junction with Duke st , often landed in the shops doorway ;)
Here is a Tutty's moment. Do you remember the pet shop just around the corner from Jacksons? The only way my Gran could get me to go to Reading without kicking off was if she promised to take me to the pet shop. They had kittens, puppies and all sorts in there.

And going back to Bernie Inns, wasn't the George a Bernie?
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Remember my grandad taking me to the George,I had to sit outside on the cobble stones with a orangeade and a packet of Smiths Crisp with the twist of salt inside.Must have been in the fifties,stayed a lot with them in Callington Road Whitley when I was young.Remember Appletons horse ,the rag and bone man,used to get a goldfish if you give him something...
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