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Yes Blackie wasn't the rocking horse called? then I believe it went to Alder Hey Hospital afterwards.
As a child I seem to remember that everything was stored in wooden chests of drawers, and the right size brought out of the correct drawer.
Was the children's department upstairs? I remember going for my Christmas coat and hat, double breasted woolen in blue with a matching bonnet.
And you just couldn't go anywhere else for your Easter bonnet.
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