Anyone remember Pauldens on the moor, it was a large department store, Later taken over by Debenhams, My Aunt worked there so we always visited the shop whenever we visited the centre. they had a great toy department.

I worked there for a short time during the changeover from Pauldens to Debenhams - that would have been about 1972 I think

i used to be a van lad for davies & delivered bread & pastry etc
(69-70) used to park in the loading bay & take the bread to
the cafeteria

I remember queueing right up the stairs from the basement, as a very small child, with my mother waiting to see "Father Christmas". The queue was so long!

My ex husband remembers there being a food hall in Pauldens, but I can't remember that. (which is odd for me, and my memory for facts)

I also remember being hauled around the Roberts Brothers store, which was just down from Pauldens.

It's amazing, isn't it? These wonderful, huge Sheffield stores, like Cockaynes, Walshes, Pauldens, Roberts Brothers, Blanchards, Banners, all either gone completely, or subsumed into national chains.

PT

Originally posted by docmel
I worked there for a short time during the changeover from Pauldens to Debenhams - that would have been about 1972 I think

So did my sister in the office - she met her husband there who also worked in the butchery department.

Originally posted by koritsi
So did my sister in the office - she met her husband there who also worked in the butchery department.

Koritsi

Was her name Penny?

I worked there for a while in the electrical dept. be about 1968-1969

Koritsi

Sorry - should have read 'Is' her name Penny?

EDIT - come to think of it - I dont' think the lady I am remembering had any brothers or sisters.

i do vaguely remember a couple of the butchers in the Food Hall - without being too rude one of the food hall managers tended to be a bit of a bully and there was one guy in the butchery department who did'nt give two figs. He was so laid back and when one of the staff got a bit upset he always gave some pretty good advise.

Originally posted by docmel
I worked there for a short time during the changeover from Pauldens to Debenhams - that would have been about 1972 I think

I worked at Pauldens then Debenhams (Heelbar) when i was a lad, good times, plenty of parties, then i married a lass from cosmetics,that's when the party stopped.:mad:

Originally posted by docmel
Koritsi

Sorry - should have read 'Is' her name Penny?

EDIT - come to think of it - I dont' think the lady I am remembering had any brothers or sisters.

i do vaguely remember a couple of the butchers in the Food Hall - without being too rude one of the food hall managers tended to be a bit of a bully and there was one guy in the butchery department who did'nt give two figs. He was so laid back and when one of the staff got a bit upset he always gave some pretty good advise.


Her name was Theresa Kelly and the bloke she married was called Tony Stubbins, he was tall and skinny.

I worked ther in 1968. I was paid £6. 5/-.
I got the extra 5 bob because I was a trainee manager and had 'O' levels.

I went out with a trainee hairdresser from there. I think her name was Sheila. Very lovely

Odd this should come up at this time as I remember some wild in store doos around Xmas & new year. There again I was 17/18

Originally posted by eltel
I worked there for a while in the electrical dept. be about 1968-1969 My grandma worked in the ladies clothes dept. till 1971:clap:

My aunt worked in the linen dept i think, her name is Brenda, it must have been in the 60s-70s she then moved to cole brothers

I remember going to see santa at Pauldens but the main reason it sticks in my mind is the time my Mum and her mate chased and argued with an arrogant bloke in a trench mac who had let the door go in our faces.

The man in question turned out to be Frankie Vaughan and she went from being a fangirl to hating him in seconds! :hihi:

Plain Talker - Sorry to disappoint you about ‘huge, wonderful Sheffield stores’. Pauldens was a Manchester-based department store and I was lucky enough to be living nearby when it went up in flames during the early 1950s. What a spectacle that was! It started on the second floor just as I was coming out of the nearby Grosvenor Cinema, and it spread rapidly, lighting up the area all night!

I've a gorgeous wardrobe, tall boy & dressing table manufactured by them. Really good quality mahogany & birds eye maple. It's for sale as rearranging house. If you're a Pauldens fan and admire this period you'd love this. Let me know.:thumbsup:

Plain Talker - Sorry to disappoint you about ‘huge, wonderful Sheffield stores’. Pauldens was a Manchester-based department store and I was lucky enough to be living nearby when it went up in flames during the early 1950s. What a spectacle that was! It started on the second floor just as I was coming out of the nearby Grosvenor Cinema, and it spread rapidly, lighting up the area all night!
It may have been based in Manchester but we had one in Sheffield,Roberts and Atkinsons were the only stores exclusively Sheffield I miss your point.

Hi plain talker i worked at Blanchards they were taken over by Wigfalls, i then went on to work at Pauldens hated it as it did not have the family feel of Blanchards.

Remember going in to the january sale at pauldens clutching xmas money,got an action man armoured car and and a redheaded action man!!!!funny what you can recall.:)

I remember queueing right up the stairs from the basement, as a very small child, with my mother waiting to see "Father Christmas". The queue was so long!
PT

I too remember going there to see Father Christmas,but my favourite
was the Grotto at Moorfoot, on what was wasteland the rest of the year. My memory may be playing tricks on me, but I seem to remember it being like walking through a maze of christmas trees before seeing him. The real treat was then being taken to Redgates to look at the toys, and the train set they had running.

Tazz

my mum worked there, Elaine Chapman she was called then, any one remember her??? actually thinking about it she probably got married while she worked there, so Elaine Wilkinson, any one work with her?
will pass on any replies she aint got the tinternet...

i can remember pauldens opening very well.i worked in robert brothers just bellow it .we were a bit snobby at roberts and thought ourselves more superior to the assistants at pauldens .as we had a more upper class clientelle.i can remember diddy david hamliton the t v personality coming to the store some of us girls went to see him but couldnt get no where near him all we couldsee wasthe top of his head

I worked at Pauldens in 1967. Just spent the 'Summer of Love' in Italy. My first job was on the soft furnishings as a trainee manager. I got £6. 5/- the extra five bob because I had 'o' levels. Went out with a lovely girl from the hairdressing dept. Name of Sheila. Wow. She would wear a lot of makeup. As I wore a grey suit always had a pink collar.

Hi i worked there as the manager of the chicken roast company in 1965 i think and i was great friends with one of the butchers he wore glasses but cant remember his name:;)

I worked there around 1968/9 in the childrens dept, used to love selling prams. My sister and the man she married also worked there, and yes they are still married 36 years on. Phil worked in the loading bay.

I remember Pauldens. My gran, God bless her,carried on calling Debenhams Pauldens for many years.

I remember loads of other old shops, many like Grace Brothers on the telly, there seemed to be more of a special awe about shops and banks when I was a child. Perhaps people parted with their money less easily for expensive items then and a shopping trip really was more of a treat than a chore.

I used to work for boltons the bakers in chapeltown we supplied some of the confectionary for pauldens

I used to work for boltons the bakers on station road in chapeltown we used to supply some of the confectionary for pauldens when they were open.

I worked there for about 5 years in the carpet dept with Len Woollen, Gordon Ives,etc I remember Mr Lofthouse was the store director and was a lovely polite gentleman. His secretary was a nice lady, Miss Tee I think her name was. I played for the football team along with Eric Bollington who was a tv engineer, and his buddy Reg Kershaw who tragically died young. Several other lads from the firm played, and I remember we played a cup-tie up at Limb Lane and Mr Lofthouse said he would come and support us and so most of the dept managers turned up as well to cheer us on. Great days and some lovely ladies worked there.

I remember Pauldens, my mum used to work there from about the mid-seventies till she sadly dies in 1988. She worked on the food dept, then when it closed moved onto lingerie.

Her name was May Wood, if anyone remembers her, shout!

my mum worked there, Elaine Chapman she was called then, any one remember her??? actually thinking about it she probably got married while she worked there, so Elaine Wilkinson, any one work with her?
will pass on any replies she aint got the tinternet...

Hi mgblade, only just seen this thread. I started work at Pauldens a week before they opened [getting the store ready] I remember your mum she worked on the tobbaconist kiosk I think. We spoke breifly in town a few years ago and she didn't look any older than when I last saw her. I used to work on the confectionary counter. Lynne

hi
does anyone remember someone hanging themselves in the lifts there ..at deberhams or pauldens . in manchester because my brother works there . and he been doing nights . and there as been some wired things happening . on the shop floor . he says its walter .. but i was just wondering . does anyone else know . about it or wot the person was called . thanks

My long lost cousin Pat(nee)Hill worked in the accounts department, would love to know what happened to her