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Northumberland / Re: RYLE Ltd - Whitley Bay & Hexham
« on: Sunday 10 September 23 06:48 BST (UK) »
Hello Siobhán,
William Ryle (1842-1924) was my great-grandfather, his daughter Jane Ryle (1880-1979) was my grandmother. Of course the shop was owned by a different branch of the family but my mother would shop there a lot and I remember it well. My grandmother lived to a ripe old age and I regret not having talked to her about the old days, but you don’t when you’re young. My strongest memory of the shop was that back in the fifties in order to pay the money and bill were sent to a central accounts department using a vacuum tube transfer system like the one described here https://www.silversurfers.com/nostalgia/cash-carrying-systems-in-department-stores/. This used to fascinate me as a little child as otherwise shopping in the ladies dress section of a department store was the height of tedium. Sorry I don’t have any photographs.
William Ryle (1842-1924) was my great-grandfather, his daughter Jane Ryle (1880-1979) was my grandmother. Of course the shop was owned by a different branch of the family but my mother would shop there a lot and I remember it well. My grandmother lived to a ripe old age and I regret not having talked to her about the old days, but you don’t when you’re young. My strongest memory of the shop was that back in the fifties in order to pay the money and bill were sent to a central accounts department using a vacuum tube transfer system like the one described here https://www.silversurfers.com/nostalgia/cash-carrying-systems-in-department-stores/. This used to fascinate me as a little child as otherwise shopping in the ladies dress section of a department store was the height of tedium. Sorry I don’t have any photographs.