The day the Beatles visited Owen Owen Doncaster store – memories from Sandra Thorpe
Thanks to Sandra Thorpe (formerly Smith store name Shaw) for this fantasitc memory of the day the Beatles visited the Owen Owen Doncaster store in the early 1960’s.
Sandra started work at Owen Owen Doncaster store aged 15 in 1962 and worked there until it was sold in 1976. She worked in the menswear department and the day the Beatles visited she was lucky enough to serve Paul McCartney who bought a red tartan dressing gown. She also got all members of the band’s autographs. A very memorable day in the menswear department for her indeed.
Paul obviously likes his dressing gowns. Here’s a photograph taken of him and his children Stella and James in Scotland in 1982 from his late wife Linda McCartney’s retrospective exhibition which appeared at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool in 2020. Sadly Paul is not wearing his red tartan Owen Owen dressing gown in this shot but I wonder if he still has it?
