THIS meticulous display of wares, with even a neat row of old-fashioned hot-water bottles along each side of the entrance, suggests that Lister’s China Stores had entered for an earlier 20th-century shop window dressing competition.
The left-hand window includes a selection of what would now be collectable crested china – small ornaments representing a wide variety of objects, embellished with town and city coats-of-arms.
This shop in Bridge Street was a familiar business for generations; indeed, when George Robinson Lister died in 1936 it was said that “Lister’s China Stores had gone under that name for more than a century”.
During a shop window dressing competition organised by the Keighley News as late as 1956, Lister’s, then in North Street, entered a display essentially little changed from this one!
The photograph has been supplied by Mr Kevin Seaton, of Shann Lane, Keighley.
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