[Closed] High street shops of yore

Freeman Hardy Willis

Stead & Simpson are still going 😉

c&a and Lewis's are the big ones missing round here. I was going to say the sweater shop but they have just started up retail operations again.
Also Athena, gosh my bedroom walls were devoid of posters after that place closed.

I miss getting my user name from Woolies too.

Rumbelows.

Comet

Beejam, why did they sell loose cereal in those clear tubes so you could fill your own bag like dog treats in pets at home.

Bewise, intersports

NSS
John Menzies
Our Price
Beatties (I miss Beatties)
Wimpy

C&A are sorely missed. Where else does one go these days for cheap, orsumnezzz in ski clothing?

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I believ C&A are still quite popular in France?

I was watching The Mad Death last night.

I remember watching that with my mum when I was a kid.

Kwik Save

And let us not forget Netto - The baked bean war of '94 😆

Preedy
Radio Rentals
National Milk Bar

Glens, Robertsons, Hutchison & Stepek (or something like that). (vaguely recall electrical hardware chain).
Slater Hogg & Howison (again, annoying TV adverts)
Are R S McColls still going?

all the offies - Victoria Wine, Thresher.. &c

worked in Fine Fare (Coopers) on Thursday & Friday evenings, Saturdays.

Beejams got rebadged to Iceland. Mr Byrite for gentlemen's tailoring, Lyons coffee house, Charrington's brewery.

Victor Value.

Oh, Midland Bank - everyone at school with griffin saver school bags 😀

Imagine what it will be like for our kids - "eeh, do you remember British Heart Foundation! ooh, what about Oxfam, and where did all the Sue Ryder shops go?"

NSS in Manchester's Arndale Centre had Atari Battlezone which was awesome.

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I got told off in there one Saturday as I was thumbing through Mayfair at about 14 y.o. I had to shuffle out with a semi-on!

Walter Wilsons

As a fan of so-bad-its-quite-good logo design, I miss Presto

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I also admired Fine Fares minimalist approach to packaging design. Combining the much under-utilised bright yellow colour scheme with MASH era US Military style typography

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Makes Tesco basics look needlessly faffy and fussy 😀

Maynard's sweet shops.
Wm Low.

+1 for Beatties

Goldbergs
Tandy
What Everyone Wants

Mac Markets
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KwikSave

C&A are alive & well in Belgium & France. They also used to do some quite good cheap cycling gear as well as the skiwear. Ir never sold really well though so I used to be able t opick up a few bargains in their end of season sale at the Corporation Street (Brum) branch, followed by a feed in the massive Wimpy across the road

This combines 2 much missed 80's classics. Mr Wimpy and ZX Spectrums

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I' sure I've been to a Wimpy on the Motorway in the last couple of years...

Mr Wimpy

Was down in Nottingham last year and discovered they still have a Wimpy inside some horrendous shopping mall. Not surprising really. Nottingham's the kind of place the local cinema is showing Lethal Weapon and all the locals come out afterwards saying they should make a sequel.

Beejam, why did they sell loose cereal in those clear tubes so you could fill your own bag like dog treats in pets at home.

Did Beejam not become Iceland? Lots of healthfood shops still use those tubes for cereals and grains.

Presto>Safeway>Morrisons?

I remember Dewhurst the Butchers - mainly because a couple of my friends were bindo callers and vouchers for Dewhurst the Butchers were one of the main prizes.
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There's a Wimpy in Horsham still, walked pasted yesterday, it looked rank.

For some reason I was reminded of the clothing shop Quality Seconds (later QS) this morning.

Is Mothercare still around!?

Menzies is a good one, forgotten them! Every large station had one.

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

Also, Olympus Sports.

Rumbelows, purveyor of rented TV's

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C&A still going strong in Germany, too! Actually I used to help out in a community project (basically it was a council funded gig venue) and the guy in charge was a senior CND member and well known historian. C&A offered some sponsorship money which he refused on the grounds that they were Nazi sympathizers during the war! 😯

Gateway!!!! I used to work there while I was at school. Slave labour camp 👿

Olympus sports is a good one
Do we still have InterSport in the UK?

Who remembers Texas Tom?
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Remember my first C&A ski gear fondly. Was still rocking it 10 years later (I did eventually grow into it).

Harry the Spider, Wimpy is still going. Passed one in Huddersfield the other day.

[Timewarp] We still have a Dewhurst butchers in Leicester. There are still Wimpys in the midlands too. [/timewarp]

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

Remember the Stolen From Ivor near the escalators above the Underground Market in Manchester ?

They sold genuine Ben Sherman botton down shirts !

Ratners
Index
Woolworths

Remember the Stolen From Ivor near the escalators above the Underground Market in Manchester ?

Oh yes. Followed by a trip to Bostock's Records then a go in the Star Wars machine in Hazel's.

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

There are tons of Wimpys in South Africa - Woollies too. Woollies in Australia as well. But actually I think the us UK australian South African woollies were all totally separate companies.

As a fan of so-bad-its-quite-good logo design, I miss Presto

Mackfisheries or Macfisheries

Hepworth menswear shop, I think became Next?

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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 🙁

There's a Wimpy in Amersham as well.

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

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

Preedy's was an important shop in my local town!

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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. 😀

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.

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.

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

How could I forget ....

Geordie Jeans !!!!

Wimpy alive and kicking in Nam, Twickenham.

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I loved Tandy!

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.

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.

Olympus Sports - or did I imagine that?

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

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.

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

Also (regrettably) Netto.

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

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

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

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)

I also had a jumper similar to the bloke in the picture...

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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.

Selby's Tesco will always be Hillards to me.

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I'm still traumatised from the time I went there and Darth Vader hurt my hand...

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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.

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No Frills bread for 4p anyone?

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

[i]"Do yourself a favour, be a liquor saver." was the jingle![/i]

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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?

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

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And Sussex Armoury that sold airguns and crossbows?

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.