Old fashioned service
I know that a lot of people thought that Hanningtons was ‘the’ department store – but of the two my favourite was Vokins.
Many the hours I spent exploring the different departments – and often coming home with items I had not intended to purchase – but could not resist.
Did you shop at Vokins? Which was your favourite department? Let us have your retail reminiscences.
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Hi Jennifer, I also preferred Vokins and my favourite department was Fabrics as I use to make a lot of my clothes and I could always find something I liked at Vokins.
Hi Jennifer, and Brenda,
The title here says North Street/Ship Street. My Vokins was on the London Road somewhere opposite Bellmans and the Cooperative store. I was certainly in and around that store with my grandmother and my mother. Mum probably bought cloth there for the costumes she made for ballet shows I was in.
I remember shopping in Vokins. In 1966 I bought the material for my bridesmaid dresses there. It was a lovely turquoise colour and I managed to get headresses to match. I also bought them elbow length white gloves which were very fashionable at the time. It was a lovely store and always had what you wanted. It was also not quite as expensive as Hanningtons although I loved that store too.
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