Roberts Brothers

[yorkielass 10]

Anybody on here who used to work in the office at Roberts Brothers around 1964 - 1968 ?

[heeleyson 10]

Oh id love to say yes, just cos nobody has replied ! Where was it and i'll try to think if i know of anybody who worked there at all ? Oh , you dont mean the big shop do you ?

[scousemouse 10]

Over 50 years ago I worked as a Saturday girl, it was just like 'Grace Bothers' in those days!!!!

[yorkielass 10]

Oh id love to say yes, just cos nobody has replied ! Where was it and i'll try to think if i know of anybody who worked there at all ? Oh , you dont mean the big shop do you ?

 

The store was on The Moor just down from from Debenhams. It was a big department store.

[Daven 10]

The store was on The Moor just down from from Debenhams. It was a big department store.

 

I might be wrong but think it was in the building that is now Sainsburys on the Moor.

My Mum worked on the switchboard there 1954 - 1957.

[Mandem 13]

Sainsburys is where Marks and Spencers used to be. Robert brothers was the block where Argos and the other boarded up shops are.

[Daven 10]

Sainsburys is where Marks and Spencers used to be. Robert brothers was the block where Argos and the other boarded up shops are.

 

I stand corrected -too young to remember the shop you see !

[steven85 10]

My mum and dad both worked and met at Robert brothers, my dad started there in 1959, he was a French polisher there, Ernest cocker, and my mum worked in the offices from 1966 to 1969 my mums name before she was married was Susan Barton,

[fred ayres 10]

.French polisher there, Ernest cocker I worked as electrician at same time but left just before it closed down last time I met Ernest he was self employed

It was a very good time

[Jananne 0]

I worked in the accounts office at Robert Bros. around 1955

[Longcol 600]

On 04/06/2013 at 11:46, Mandem said:

Sainsburys is where Marks and Spencers used to be. Robert brothers was the block where Argos and the other boarded up shops are.

Marks and Sparks was on the other side - Sainsburys was in the back of Atkinsons.

 

Back in those days Debenhams was Pauldens.

 

3 department stores on the Moor - plus Coles, Walshes and Cockaynes in the city centre.

[TWhits 11]

I think it might have been Robert Brothers that ran the "Dolphin Club" for children and linked them to pen pals around the country.  I was a member and received a certificate when I was that sort of age.