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  • High street shops of yore
  • TPTcruiser
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    Mackfisheries or Macfisheries

    Hepworth menswear shop, I think became Next?

    binners
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    Then off up to piccadilly records, then to have a look at the latest mad coloured Adidas he’d got in in Underground. Aaaaah … the joys of youth

    Like most things, its a Tesco nowadays 🙁

    timidwheeler
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    There’s a Wimpy in Amersham as well.

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    stcolin
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    I remember C&A here in Belfast. A few years ago I was in Frankfurt and seen a huge C&A store there.

    cranberry
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    C&A are a Dutch firm and are still going strong here in Hollandland.

    molgrips
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    Preedy’s was an important shop in my local town!

    unfitgeezer
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    julianwilson
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    Old folks round our way still refer to debenhams as ‘spooners’ -the department store that inhabited the building 40 years ago. In deference to this, i have begun to call all shops the name they had when i was little, so house of fraser is still Dingles, our 2 tesco metros nearby are gateway and esso, and when they build that new morrisons i will still be calling it superbowl. 😀

    stilltortoise
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    Radio Rentals. I used to love browsing the little A5 brochure of films you could rent. How times have changed…for the better might I add.

    RustySpanner
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    binners – Member

    Like most things, its a Tesco nowadays

    I bought my first bong from the headshop just at the top of the escalators.
    And fake Levis from the Denim Shop. 🙂

    Paperchase was good for obscure stuff.

    Decoy Records was my favourite, pre IRA.

    pictonroad
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    Wimpy of the year opposite our office, I’ve never been.

    grtdkad
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    How could I forget ….

    Geordie Jeans !!!!

    binners
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    househusband
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    coolhandluke
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    I loved Tandy!

    Rscott
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    pretty sure there’s still a wimpy and a stolen from ivor in Huddersfield.

    C and A is big in most of Europe, As is Intersport which we don’t have many of left.

    Joe Bloggs Shops, and Famous army stores (with no army kit what so ever) seem to have dsapeared.

    ransos
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    Wow I remember a Stolen From Ivor in Preston. Didn’t realise it was a chain!

    We had one in Bury. It’s where I used to buy my Joe Bloggs jeans.

    jools182
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    Olympus Sports – or did I imagine that?

    edit- found it

    It was a proper sports shop that sold equipment for actually doing sport, unlike the ones for clothing chavs

    derek_starship
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    What about Stolen From Ivor? I used to get my “pulling gear” from them on a Saturday afternoon.

    Also, Olympus Sports

    jools – you wasted your time. I got this on page 1.

    What about Laskey’s? Sold TVs, hi-fi and (my fave) computers.

    DrJ
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    C and A is big in most of Europe, As is Intersport which we don’t have many of left.

    Also (regrettably) Netto.

    edhornby
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    There was a Stolen from Ivor in Northwich as well

    run by a bloke called Ivor Lee who lived I think in Cheadle, big merc, personalised numberplate yadda

    Pigface
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    VG and Leos both taken over by the Co-Op from all accounts.

    hot_fiat
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    Timothy Whites – like Lakeland but with more brown and orange Tupperware than you could shake a stick at.

    andytherocketeer
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    C+A only really pulled out of UK (maybe some other places too)

    Don’t think Bejam was renamed Iceland, but more a case of Iceland taking over many former Bejam stores?

    Rumbelows, Laskys, Tandy (all for hacking BASIC on the old 8-bit home computers)

    Allders (or All Ders as we used to call it, aged 9)

    MFI (Made For Idiots)

    Kwiksave (must have got half my student food from there, mainly cos the baked beans were better than the big supermarket own brands and only 16p/can)

    the-muffin-man
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    I also had a jumper similar to the bloke in the picture…

    molgrips
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    Our main supermarket when I was little was Saverite, with a Liptons actually on the high street with a normal shop front and all – and some other one I forget.

    Then International built a HUGE purpose built shop behind the high st (pretty small in reality) that put paid to those. Then some years later still it became Gateway, then Safeway, then Safeway built a proper modern one outside town. All pretty much defunct, the big one is now a Morrisons afaik.

    verses
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    Selby’s Tesco will always be Hillards to me.

    I’m still traumatised from the time I went there and Darth Vader hurt my hand…

    shermer75
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    shermer75
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    The Internet has let me down. I have searched hard but I can’t find any piccies of any ‘Chelsea Girl’ or ‘Concept Man’ shops. They’re all River Island now.

    shermer75
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    No Frills bread for 4p anyone?

    derek_starship
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    Kwik Saves had in-store beer/wine/spirit concessions called Liquor Save.

    “Do yourself a favour, be a liquor saver.” was the jingle!

    The one in this photo isn’t the original Liquor Save logo.

    Does anybody remember the Safeway in Shambles Square, Manchester?
    And Sussex Armoury that sold airguns and crossbows?

    allthegear
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    As a really esoteric one, ow about Clover’s Department Store in Kirkstall, Leeds?

    My uncle worked there selling sofas and TVs (as they are basically the same???)

    Been looking for an image but it appears to be a BHS now…

    Rachel

    binners
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    And Sussex Armoury that sold airguns and crossbows?

    Aaaah yes… purveyors of black widow catapults to the youth of Manchester 😀

    CountZero
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    Radio Rentals. I used to love browsing the little A5 brochure of films you could rent. How times have changed…for the better might I add.

    Is that the high street store, or the in-house movies they did for hotel chains? Became Thorn EMI, IIRC.
    Does anyone remember small high street grocery-type shops called Home & Colonial? Used to be one in Chippenham that my mum always went to when she took me shopping.

    simmy
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    There’s a Kwik Save in Little Lever near Bolton that’s been opened within the last year or so but I think its the only one in the country.

    Whether the guy bought the name or just used it is anyone’s guess.

    Round here there was CO-OP Normid which I think stood for North West and Midlands, was basically the good old CO-OP under another name.

    tenfoot
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    There is a Wimpy in Maidstone too.

    We used to have a Laskys and a supermarket from a chain called David Greig. Don’t know if that was just a south east thing though.

    LMT
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    I do miss safeway, but thats because i worked for them for many years, the morrisons takeover just ruined everything we knew about the company but thats a take over.

    Virgin Megastores! great shops, i guess the bigger question is who will go next?

    1-shed
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    Shops of yore, where I have worked

    Wardrobe Bolton
    In Wear Matinique
    Woodhouse
    Chipie
    McKenzie
    Freewheel
    Replay
    Mountain Range Newhay

    So I probably served a few you Manchester chaps over the years.

    sparkyrhino
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    How about Fads.The bejam in muffin mans pic is the one in Croggy(crossgtes) in Leeds,remember it well.Also had a cousin who worked at Clover in Kirkstall.

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