Memory store
Our Memory Store website (www.memorystore.org.uk) brings to life in words and pictures a very special story. It's the story of how the lives of ordinary people have changed over the past hundred years and the way they have equipped themselves and their homes to meet their changing needs and expectations.
Trewins memory store
Do you remember Trewin Brothers, Kinghams, Waitrose or Findlater Mackie Todd in Watford?
The Partnership Archive is pleased to announce a new and exciting community web site Trewins Memory Store (http://trewins.memorystore.org.uk).
The site is free for anyone to join and is a community initiative created in partnership with the local library and museum. It sits alongside our Memory Store (www.memorystore.org.uk) which was our first archive related site, created to bring material from the John Lewis Partnership archive collection to school children.
We have now embarked on a project aimed at a slightly more mature audience, although many of the pages will be of interest to school children, showing what shop life was like throughout the 20th century.
Compiled by a group of retired Partners from John Lewis Watford this pilot project catalogues and displays photos, reminiscences and interviews with those who remember our store which was previously known as Trewin Brothers and other shops previously owned by the Partnership in the town. The site illustrates what we have already collected and will, we hope, encourage everyone from Partners to customers to enter their comments and images about Trewins and John Lewis Watford which will become a valuable part of the history of tomorrow.
The site will build into a useful community resource which can be used by anyone with an interest in the local area, our shops or the Partners who work there. Written memories or photographs can be simply added to the site and there is also the facility to add a comment letting others know why it is special to you. There are sections on the early days of the store, war time Watford, the move to the Harlequin and also the store today.
With easy to follow instructions it is simple to add your comments or great fun just to browse through the pages that are already on the site.
