Johnson Clarks

Yes I remember Johnson and Clarks department store, opposite use to be Kennards before it became Debenhams.
I grew up in Staines then moved away, I go back from time to time just to see how its changed.

I was a 'Saturday girl' in Johnson & Clarks for several years from 1965 - Matt Shell is quite right, it was just like the Grace Brothers department store! There was even a 'Captain Peacock' - a floor walker in very smart attire, who, if memory serves me correctly, was called Mr Stevens. If I watch an old episode of 'Are You Being Served', I cannot help but think of Johnson & Clarks. Smartly dressed ladies running Ladieswear, very dapper gentleman in Mens Outfitting, an ex-nurse in the Toy department who brought her nurse's belt in to show me one day to prove that she had had an 18" waist when she was a nurse (she had, the belt was tiny). A creaky old lift, a staff canteen where everyone had their lunch and gossiped - lots of memories of a time and a place long since gone.

my dad worked for Johnson and Clarks in the era before they became a departmental store. In the 1940's and 50's he was a plumber, based in the shed at the bottom on the yard.
Next to him was a Glass Shop with George Nicholas and upsatirs was a stained glass department with a man called Bob.
I seem to remember someone in the Sports Department called Ron Dipper but I guess that was after the move to a Departmental store.
Johnsons waxs a regukar weekly trip by us on a Saturday morning , when my mum was at work.

Thinking back it is amazing waht we goyt upto together on a Saturday