Supermarkets / Retail History

[burkhilly]

Does anyone remember steurlers i think thats what its called in old swan?
Jo

Is that the building with the women's gym above on the next block to the Job Centre? If this is the shop then I don't think it was called Sterlers. Certainly it was a kind of small Department Store. I think it shut down in the early 70s I remember going in there: they had those money pipe things whereby the assistant wrote out a receipt, took the money and put it in a tube and off it went, presumably to a cash office. I can't remember what this shop was called - too young!!!

[Samp]

Is that the building with the women's gym above on the next block to the Job Centre? If this is the shop then I don't think it was called Sterlers. Certainly it was a kind of small Department Store. I think it shut down in the early 70s I remember going in there: they had those money pipe things whereby the assistant wrote out a receipt, took the money and put it in a tube and off it went, presumably to a cash office. I can't remember what this shop was called - too young!!!

Sounds like Sturlas to me, they had the same system in Great homer Street!

[irishseashipping.com]

Sounds like Sturlas to me, they had the same system in Great homer Street!

Blanche Lucas's small department store had a Lamson (pneumatic tube) System as well I recall from visits there in the 60s with my mother

It was near Penny Lane and after many years as a "Motor World" is now Hatton's Model Railway shop.

Some places still use similar systems but if I recall with the old systems it was used for each sale, rather than sending quantities of cash from the tills as appears to be the case now.

John

[Ged]

Colliers in London Road also had the tube system for payment, a myriad of pipes taking the cash to the upstairs offices. They had those finely polished wooden drawers containing socks and underpants behind the counter - very Grace Brothers.

Sturla's were famous for their cheques as well.

[lindylou]

I think the Co-Op used the system in the 'old days' if my memory serves me right.

I know the Army & Navy stores did.

[anonymouse]

Anyone on here old enough to remember the system of wires which criss-crossed above head height at the old Woolworths store in London Road? The cashiers were in a raised cubicle which overlooked the sales floor and each transaction whizzed overhead with payment and returned again with the change! That store always had a distinctive 'creosote-like' smell as I recall.

[18stanley]

Yes, I can vouch for the Sturlas on Walton Road - and the pneumatic
payment system - in the 30's. Can anyone remember whether there was
also a branch of T J Hughes, perhaps on County Road?. As for Irwins, there
was certainly a shop along Melrose Road in those days. Stan H.

[Samp]

I think the Co-Op used the system in the 'old days' if my memory serves me right.

I know the Army & Navy stores did.

Message deleted, information already there. (The system with the wires!)

[hmtmaj]

Is that the building with the women's gym above on the next block to the Job Centre? If this is the shop then I don't think it was called Sterlers. Certainly it was a kind of small Department Store. I think it shut down in the early 70s I remember going in there: they had those money pipe things whereby the assistant wrote out a receipt, took the money and put it in a tube and off it went, presumably to a cash office. I can't remember what this shop was called - too young!!!

I think this was called "Oakes and Eddon" ( spelling ) and they did have the "Tube System" for sales as did the Army and Navy in Old Swan.
Martin

[wendyanne]

Oakes & Eddon used to sell chemicals and laboratory equipment such as test tubes and pipettes etc.

[hmtmaj]

Oakes & Eddon used to sell chemicals and laboratory equipment such as test tubes and pipettes etc.

Oakes and Hulme ! not Oakes and Eddon !

[Ged]

The Sturla's in Old Swan is now a row of shops and it was bounded by Belfast road and Fernleigh rd.

[wendyanne]

Oakes and Hulme ! not Oakes and Eddon !

It was definitely Oakes & Eddon, I used to go there a lot with my brother who considered himself quite a chemist. I think it was in Brunswick Rd.

[gregs dad]

Sturlas became Oakes and Hulmes in their latter days. there was never a T J Hughes on County Rd, otherwise me ma wouldn`t have got a tram to London Rd. They also had the money tubes in the early days.
There was a large store on Walton Rd called Frosts which if my mermory is right was originally Sturlas,it is now a Weatherspoons pub.
I think quite a lot of Sturlas trade was in Provident cheques and such

[Samp]

Yes, I can vouch for the Sturlas on Walton Road - and the pneumatic
payment system - in the 30's. Can anyone remember whether there was
also a branch of T J Hughes, perhaps on County Road?. As for Irwins, there
was certainly a shop along Melrose Road in those days. Stan H.

Your not getting mixed up with Frosts in Walton Rd? This was similar to Sturlas and was one of the many stores that took the Provident cheque, which many mothers used to clothe the kids in the 40's and 50's.