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Shops

IRONBRIDGE. "I only knew one shop and that was at Ironbridge when I was a kid." Anthony Millward in posting to Facebook

OSWESTRY. Bradleys. Cash carrier. Anne Price Tanner in posting to Facebook, 8 Mar. 2021

OSWESTRY. Co-op. Cash carrier. Anne Price Tanner in posting to Facebook, 8 Mar. 2021

OSWESTRY. Robert Lloyd, Glasgow House. "Mr Robert Lloyd has brought into use in his extensive premises at Glasgow House, a transatlantic novelty in the form of an elevated automatic railway... The systems in use at Glasgow House are two in number, and they have so far only been applied to the ground floor. One is known as the ball system, and the other as the rapid wire system, and both inventions are leased from the Lamson Store Service Company... The rapid wire system is, we believe, capable of .. communication between upper floors and a ground floor, but it has not yet been brought into use at Glasgow House. A device of Mr Lloyd's own - acting on somewhat similarlines, but not automatically - is, however, in use to overcome this difficulty. The system is a novelty in Oswestry... In an establishment in which from thirty to fifty hands are engaged at times, it is obviously of great value in the economy of time." Oswestry Advertiser, 13 Mar. 1889, p. 7

SHREWSBURY. Co-op. Central Premises, Castle Street. 6 inndependent terminals and 6 shifting. Gravity desk. Quirepace records

SHREWSBURY. Morris (bakery/grocers). Wire system in 1930s-50s. M. Goodall

WELLINGTON. Florence Dickson. Cash carrier. Carol Brookes in posting to Facebook

WELLINGTON. McClures (outfitters and drapers), Duke Street.. Overhead wire system. Wellington News Online. Photograph from mid-1950s showing several Rapid Wire propulsions in John Powell and Michael A.Vanns. North Telford: Wellington, Oakengates and surrounding areas (Stroud: Chalford, 1995). Facsimile of shop at Blists Hill Museum
• "McClures in Wellington, Shropshire 1969/70. Always fascinated by it." Sandra Boden in posting to Facebook
• "The ones [cash carrier systems] I remember were .. a wire-based system in McClures department store, Shrewsbury." G6Tanuki in Vintage Radio Neti