A TIMES Past reader who worked in Glasgow’s famous “golden spinning wheel shop” has died just a few months before her 100th birthday.
Jane had mentioned a shop called Smith’s, “which had a spinning wheel on its shopfront” beside Daly’s department store, but Carol could find no mention of the place.
Jane was born in Canterbury in January, 1924, and she had two brothers, Stanley and Tim and a sister who sadly died as a baby.She moved to Glasgow, where she met William Davies, who was in the Highland Light Infantry. The couple married at Maryhill Barracks in June 1943. “I loved working there although by the time I joined it was quite old-fashioned – a bit like Grace Brothers in Are You Being Served?Fergus kindly sent Jane a box of merchandise produced by the store, including a gold-covered brochure all about itsfrom the 50s, a teapot used in the tearoom, engraved with the famous spinning wheel image, and a pair of earrings engraved with JS, which were made to celebrate 200 years of trading.
Its first Sauchiehall Street branch opened in 1909 and the site Jane Davies worked in, next to Daly’s department store, opened in 1929. Its tearoom was a Glasgow institution.This was a state of the art building with hot water radiators supplied by an oil-heated boiler, one of the first in the city, fire sprinklers and alarm system and electric refrigerators and cash tubes.
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