The learning journeys I helped create for mylearning.org and M&S Company Archive on the 'Heart of the High Street' are live. There are lots of images, a timeline of the stores history and activity ideas for a Local History study on Bromley, Manchester, Exeter, Bishop Auckland,Barrow-in-Furness and Glasgow.
Check them out at http://www.mylearning.org/the-mands-company-archive/heart-of-the-high-street/
Amazing to see how much the stores grew in such a short time, thanks in no small part to amazing team spirit it seems. Favourite story from the archives was the elderly man who returned a sixpence to a store assistant years after he stole some marbles as a teenager. Don't think it could've happened in any other shop.