When fake furs ruled
Last updated 09:14, Saturday, 10 May 2008
Remember the fake fur era ladies? Well I’m sure today’s picture sent in by Mary Beaty from Warwick-on- Eden will bring back memories for you.
Mary told Timeline: “The photograph is myself with a group of friends at the Royal Scot in Carlisle in 1970. We were celebrating the 10th wedding anniversary of Pat and Bill Charters. We met there and then went on to the Morton Community centre.
“All the women were wearing their fake fur which was in fashion at the time.
“My husband and I have been friends of Pat and Bill for 50 years. We first met in December 1958 when they came into the jewellers shop where I worked (Johnston & Court Ltd) in Devonshire Street, Carlisle.
“They selected their engagement ring and got engaged at the County Dance on the Christmas Eve. Thomas (my husband) and I also got engaged there the same night and we have all been firm friends ever since.
“Johnston & Court was a family jewellery business in the fifties. I started work there in 1954 straight from school. My wage was 25/- a week. I left when the shop closed in 1974 along with the smaller shop at St Alban’s Row and the ones at Kendal and Whitehaven.
“I believe the original Carlisle shop was in the viaduct area of Carlisle. My mother and father got their wedding ring there in the late twenties”.
The people in the picture are: left to right; Mary Beaty, Thomas Beaty, Pat Charters, Bill Charters, Margaret Gibson, Jean Charters, John Charters, Sylvia Gallimore, Gordon Gibson, Terry Gallimore, Michael Charters, Brenda Charters.
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