The Anonymous Widower

Pearsons Is Still There

When C and I were children, if our parents wanted anything for the home or perhaps some school uniform, we would take the 107 bus from Oakwood and East Barnet respectively and go to Enfield to shop at Pearsons, which was the local department store.

Pearsons Is Still There

It still is, as the picture shows. Although, it is now part of a larger group.

All those days ago, Pearsons was a shop with a central Accounts Department.  So if you bought anything, the bill and your money was sent by a system of overhead wires and little trolleys by the assistant and then the change was returned. Later it was replaced by a pneumatic system, which was similar to the one, that Libertys were using into the 1970s.

There’s more in Wikipedia under cash carriers.

February 13, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | World | Enfield, Shopping