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Blacketts, a Sunderland store which had it all, including the chutes for customers’ money. Can you remember shopping here?

Kim Webster: I can remember going in the lift it was like a cage where you could see the inside of the lift shaft, quite scary for a kid.

Claire Duffy: I can remember the money chute, I was fascinated with it when I was little and the lifts where the door was pulled across but you could still see out.

Clasina Jenkins: My mum abd dad bought all their furniture and carpets there in the 60s. Remember it well.

Sheila Jameson: Loved Blacketts, watching the money chutes going round the shop.

Dorothy Archer: Bought material there for my wedding dress in 1957.

Dawn Welsh: Mam worked there, I remember the chutes the money went in up and round the store.

Kay Richardson: mam worked in the shoe department.

Angela Barnfather: Got my first pair of school shoes for seniors from there. Remember it so well.

Bernie M: Mam shopped there. I remember getting my Sunday best coats from Blacketts.

Evelyn Patterson: I worked there for four years, it was a beautiful store, sadly gone now.

Leanne Fraser: Yes remember my mam buying me new shoes and I began to feel unwell and was sick in a waste paper bin.

Carol Holliday: Yes I loved shopping in Blacketts and watching the money chutes.

Denise Bryson: I remember going to see Santa Claus there, sitting on a pretend sleigh, and pictures on wall being rolled by as if on a real journey, beautiful memories.

Liz Brown: Bought my first baby pram there 57 years ago, how time flies.