Remember Jessops, Burtons, Pearsons and Griffin & Spalding? Travel back in time to when these stores were household names in Nottingham.
Chris recalls those days when shopping was more than just a ‘retail experience’! He also explores the roots of shopping in the days when in the 1700s the town had a Great Market Place ‘where country people bought sheep to sell’, where there were booths for milliners, sellers of corn and malt and where on the north side of the Shambles there was a ‘great store of housewives cloth both linen and woollen’.
In Victorian times and beyond shopping pioneers like Zebedee Jessop and Joseph Burton came to Nottingham to make their fortune. In more recent times came the Co-op Divi, Green Shield Stamps and the rise of Wilkos. And districts like Hyson Green served their own communities with grocers, butchers, furniture shops and record stores that sold actual vinyl, long playing records!
It’s a talk that is sure to stir some memories!
