I certainly remember the up only escalator in Boots, the only one in Newcastle as far as I know in the early 1950's. It was quite narrow and I much preferred going to Boots than Fenwick's for that reason. Also recall the bands in the restaurant, father seemed to have been on first name terms with all the band leaders. As a small boy watching parcels going down the shute to the delivery bay at Bainbridge's was also a great attraction at that time - beside the stairs down from the cafe/restaurants where mother used to meet her friends. Mother was more interested in hats! In fact hats and scarves were essential in those days, but we're wandering away from genealogy, but perhaps that explains the number of milliners in older times:-) Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather A Punshon" <heather@punshon.ca> To: "DUR-NBL mailing list" <dur-nbl@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [DUR-NBL] Fenwick's horse and bird >I can't remember the escalator at Fenwicks - but there was one at Boots > the Chemists - further up Northumberland Street. It was quite an > attraction. > > Heather >>> I believe also that they had one of the first escalators going >>> both up and down, which I loved.