[Bell Historians] Houndsditch?

[Andrew Wilby]

It certainly is Houndsditch. I made several purchases there when I 
worked at Liverpool St. We had a staff discount of not very much.
As an east end department store it had some old fashioned sales and 
accounting processes typical of a Jewish family owned business where 
only the family were trusted anywhere near the cash.

The sales staff would give you an invoice which you took to the 
department manager who checked it and stamped it, and then you trooped 
off to the cashiers office behind steel grills where you paid, probably 
to a member of the family who then issued you with a document that 
entitled you to go back and collect the goods!

I never saw the bells but have a hazy memory of a photo of them on the 
roof of the building. When the company closed and sold the property for 
development, probably for a large sum, I seem to remember it said that 
WBF had the bells for scrap.... might be wrong?

Andrew


On 08/05/2014 15:35, chester at michaelchester4.orangehome.co.uk wrote:
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> Matthew Higby put me on to this photo.  Is it Houndsditch Warehouse?
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> I found a photo of the warehouse at
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> http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/collage/app?service=external/Item&sp=Zhoundsditch+warehouse&sp=51671&sp=X
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> which says it is "Back Gravel Lane" and an exact copy of it as the 
> "Stoney Lane Elevation"
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> The style of the building is very similar in both photographs, but the 
> clock is different.  Were the bells not on this corner, perhaps?
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> Mike
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