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[Poll #1085714]

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[k425.livejournal.com]

In Watford people still talk about Trewins. It's been John Lewis for 6 years but everyone still calls it Trewins.

http://www.johnlewis.com/Shops/DSTemplate.aspx?Id=39

Unlike Robert Sayle, Trewins seems to be accepted by John Lewis!

[lnr]

They're still happy to keep the Robert Sayle name alive in the history section too:

http://www.johnlewis.com/Shops/DSTemplate.aspx?Id=22

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

It's Robert Sayle because it's always been Robert Sayle regardless of them moving to the new premises, and it is to Cambridge what Cole's is to Sheffield or Jessop's is to Nottingham, despite any name-changing initiatives that John Lewis will try to never knowingly undersell.

[lnr]

Um, the current move in premises is in fact back into the place where the *old* premises was.

[mhoulden.livejournal.com]

I still refer to the big building on the Headrow (in Leeds) as Lewis's, even if Allders have been and gone in the meantime. Also the Schofield Centre (Headrow Centre, which is being run down before a refurb) and the Bond St Centre (Leeds Shopping Plaza, which is located on Bond St). On the same nostalgic theme, I remember when Boar Lane was pretty run down, with a vacuum cleaner shop (Wigfalls?) where Yates chav Wine Lodge is, and a Beauty Without Cruelty on Leeds station roughly where the tourist information centre is. I lived in Leeds until I was 5 (in 1984) and moved back in 2002.

[lnr]

Yeah but that was Lewis's not a John Lewis. What is it these days?

I definitely still think of the Schofield and the Bond St shopping centres though. Can't believe the Schofield is up for *another* refit though. Why it must be only about 15 or 20 years since the last one :-)

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

What is it these days?

Boarded up, last time I looked! Will be reopening as multiple units rather than a department store.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

a vacuum cleaner shop (Wigfalls?)

Ah, Wiggy's! They used to have branches all over south Yorkshire; my cousin Charles used to work for them, installing tellies. Wigfall's went the way of pretty much all those high street brown-goods rental shops back in the eighties when it no longer became cost-effective for people to rent TVs and VCRs.

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

John Lewis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_%28department_store_founder%29) != David Lewis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lewis_%28English_merchant%29)

[lnr]

Has Robert Sayle actually shut yet, now that the new John Lewis has opened?

[lnr]

Hmmm wikipedia seems to think it closed on Tuesday: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sayle

[aldabra]

Yes, it's closed, with the windows covered with redirecting posters. But it's still full of stuff. What are they going to do with it next? If I was them I'd open a Waitrose.

[lnr]

I went and investigated to see, and you're right.

I kinda presumed if they really did shut on Tuesday that they would have moved all the stuff to the new shop.

A waitrose there would be *really* handy for us. Though not much less expensive than doing our shopping in M&S I suspect!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I choose randomly between "John Lewis, you know, the Cambridge branch of Robert Sayle" and "Robert Sayle, you know, the Cambridge branch of John Lewis", I think...

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I'm now imagining you stopping half way through a sentence and flipping a coin before continuing.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Pretty much[1]. Although that wasn't a good description of this case, here I don't stop and think about it, I'd generally swear blind that whatever I said I always had thought and always will :)

[1] From futurama, Gary Gygax is introduced "I am... [rolls dice] pleased to meet you"

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Amusingly, one of the programs I'm currently dealing with lists both Robert Sayle and John Lewis, Cambridge as branches.

(I suspect though that the names are coming from a table - but since that database is currently down, I can't check.)

[lnr]

I think this is possibly currently true. The temporary RS on Burleigh Street has been showing no sign of closing down as yet. I might go look tonight.

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

And George Henry Lee's in Liverpool. The wiki page is quite good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(department_store)

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, that always confused me when I was younger. BTW, the new JL reminded me of your Tardis photos, i.e. it's bloody huge on the inside!

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

I think we're going in tomorrow for a look. I might take the camera!

[fanf]

I recently overheard someone on the street telling her friend "there isn't a John Lewis in Cambridge".

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

I wonder when Blackwell's will rename Heffers. After all, everthing other than the extrnla signage is Blackwel's branded. And Blackwell's were very quick to extinguish all of the 300 year's history of Jimmy Thin's when the bought the Edinburgh store...

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

I've always referred to it as John Lewis- is Robert Sayle a regional thing? House of Fraser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Fraser) has also had more names than I've had hot dinners in its time due to eating up small companies like Arnotts, Binns etc...

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Binns! There a name rom the past.
And of course, now jenner's, too.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

It was Robert Sayle in Cambridge up until the Burleigh St store closed, I don't know about elsewhere roundabout here...

[nunfetishist.livejournal.com]

While it's been a while since I was there, my understanding is that the locals still refer to the enormous John Lewis in Southampton as Tyrell & Green.

[scat0324.livejournal.com]

My family and friends certainly seem to.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Both...

[ceb.livejournal.com]

[X] Roberty Sayle (as the screensavers in the computer section often used to say)

[ceb.livejournal.com]

... oh, and in Liverpool it's George Henry Lee's (http://www.johnlewis.com/Shops/DSTemplate.aspx?Id=19), dammit.

[bjh21.livejournal.com]

That's what I call it too, except in the office where I call it "Robert Sayle" for fear of being thought strange.

[simont]

Currently I'm instinctively calling it John Lewis, although this hasn't always been the case; next month I may swing back again for all I know.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

In Portsmouth it's Knight and Lee. Or was back when I were more of a nipper.

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

George Henry Lee!

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Robert Sayle... and Bainbridge's in Newcastle, regardless of whether it's now rebranded "John Lewis", or what other people call it. I don't know why John Lewis threw away their policy of keeping the names of locally taken-over shops, but I'm rather narked with them for doing it.