Lily Berry in Sparks Magazine 1964

Lily was employed at the M&S Penny Bazaar in Darlington, initially on three months trial because it was thought she might be too small for the high counters. “She must have grown quickly as she has been there ever since. One of her duties as a junior was to deliver by hand customers' purchases totalling more than 6 shillings; she also took her weekly turn to scrub the shop front, clean the kitchen, burn the rubbish and oil the shop floor. After six years she was promoted to floor supervisor, and in 1938 to the stockroom, where she still reigns. "It has been wonderful to watch the store develop from a small shutter-front affair, with a kitchen where you queued to fry your own lunch, into the present well-equipped building" (1968)”.