A lot has changed over the decades at Nottingham's Victoria Centre, with owners coming and going and a huge number of different stores and stalls opening to shoppers. One of the constants during much of that time though has been its huge Boots store, which has celebrated its 50th anniversary today, May 12.
For Marie Booth, Deputy Manager, joining Boots as a make-up artist girl on the No.7 counter was a childhood dream come true. She recalls that Boots was seen as a job for life and she started as a trainee on a scheme at the Broadmarsh store in 1984.
"I used to come into Boots with my granny and my mother. I would see the girls working on the make-up counters and I thought that's what I want to do. My ambition was to get on a counter job and I was so proud when they offered me a job on No.7," Marie said.
