hi all, yes its nice to see the list has come back to life, I too remember lewis,s, in fact my manchester memories are many. I dont think my parents ever took me to see father christmas, ( aaahhh!!) but I do remember taking my kids there in the 60,s, dont remember a dome though. I remember going in there to the food hall, which was in those days most of the ground floor, they sold wonderfol "ham on the bone"" which they sliced with a carving knife for you when you ordered it, ooh it was so good, also we baught broken loose biscuits from there. there was a rumour in our family at one time, I never got to the bottom of it, that one of my gt aunts was a bit of a "painted lady" and was supposed to have been the mistress of the man who was the original owner of lewis,s. my dad used to tell us that if he got sent on an errand to his aunty,s, you could smell the "scent etc" from halfway up the street. the shop next to lewis,s was WYLES,S TOY SHOP and it was a kids paradise, between this shop and lewis,s there was what was known as "lewis,s archade" this was where all the prostitutes used to go to wait for clients, I dont think they went in the day, but they all used to go there at night. sorry to correct you pamela, but the shop opposite was PAULDENS , with a lovely UCP restaurant in the basement, this was after the old pauldens was burned down, HENRYs store was a bit further down on the same side, near to LISTONS music hall, now,THAT was a strange place. maggi greece _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

Hi Maggi Oh I'd forgotten about Paulden's. But I remember the Arcade ! Pamela -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.5 - Release Date: 04/05/2005