Are They Being Served: Inside the Retirement Home with a Difference - It's Only for Ex-Shop Staff We're Free! Sheila Hamilton Meets Some Oaps Who Couldn't Be Happier in Their Very Unusual Retirement Homes, Which Are for People in the Retail Trade

Evening Times › March 17, 2008

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EVER wondered what would have happened to the staff of Grace Brothers when the years caught up with them and they became too frail to ask the customers if they were being served?

Now that they can permanently say "I'm free" - catchphrase of Mr Humphries in the long-running TV series Are You Being Served? - let's hope the show's over the top characters are living happily ever after in a retirement village similar to the one on the Crookfur estate in Newton Mearns.

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Are They Being Served: Inside the Retirement Home with a Difference - It's Only for Ex-Shop Staff We're Free! Sheila Hamilton Meets Some Oaps Who Couldn't Be Happier in Their Very Unusual Retirement Homes, Which Are for People in the Retail Trade

For this is where retired retail employees come to grow old gracefully.

Just as well that the Retail Trust estate, which used to be know as Cottage Homes, is a well-kept secret. Otherwise, there would be queues of wouldbe residents stretching down Crookfur Road on t...

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