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"Do you remember any shops as a kid that no longer exist?. I remember a supermarket called presto in my local town, and also clothes shop called Fosters where you could get some really good stuff from. " I had a weekend job in Fosters when I was a kid, that's a blast from the past. We also had an electrics store call Rumbelows. - Mr. B | |||
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"Cant believe how many shops have closed or rebranded. Beatties ....is one i can think of And greggs was called something else before it rebranded.....answers on a postcard please lol" Bakers Oven | |||
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"Greggs used to be called Braggs, it was always greggs in Scotland and we had to change for them. Give them independence lets get rid xxx"  Not always Greggs though was bakers Oven | |||
"Cant believe how many shops have closed or rebranded. Beatties ....is one i can think of And greggs was called something else before it rebranded.....answers on a postcard please lolBakers Oven" Round this neck of the woods it was Bragg's that changed to greggs. | |||
"Do you remember any shops as a kid that no longer exist?. I remember a supermarket called presto in my local town, and also clothes shop called Fosters where you could get some really good stuff from. " Ones that spring to mind are Ketts, an electrical goods chain. Mac Fisheries, kind of an early Iceland/freezer shop. | |||
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"It may still be going but i remember going in a place called spud-u-like that was a type of cafe selling stuff with baked potatoes. " There are still Spud U Likes downhere, mainly in the food courts of shopping centers. Still have Wimpy down here too. | |||
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"Hillards supermarket, Wimpy, Brentford Nylons now there's a serious blast from the past" Brentford Nylons jeez... Serious blast from the past. I remember my mum buying me some purple nylon sheets for my bed....god I thought I was dead posh.....imagine nylon sheets now | |||
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"Here there used to be a bakers called Hot & Crusty, and on the other side of the street there was a pet shop called Wet & Furry. Always made me smile. In the same street now we have a cider shop next to an "adult" shop. Perhaps they should be called Scrumpy & Rumpy-Pumpy. "  | |||
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"In Gravesend in Kent where I used to live we used to have a large department store called "Cheesemans" now an "Iceland" I do believe. I do miss good old Woolworths but I can't help thinking that all unwanted Christmas presents were taken back there for exchange even if it was'nt bought there in the first place that brought them to thier knees!!" Ruby | |||
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"most of mine have already been mentioned apart from Redifusion and the green shield stamp shop/exchange" oh ... and pork farms | |||
"most of mine have already been mentioned apart from Redifusion and the green shield stamp shop/exchange" Green shield stamps oh yes | |||
"Oooh I need this thread - please tell me ancient fabsters in the south WHAT was the name of the chain of high street bakers that was in every high street 40 odd years ago, it's been driving me NUTS 'cos I can't remember??" I should know this x it'll come to me soon | |||
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"Oooh I need this thread - please tell me ancient fabsters in the south WHAT was the name of the chain of high street bakers that was in every high street 40 odd years ago, it's been driving me NUTS 'cos I can't remember?? I should know this x it'll come to me soon" PLEEEESE!! | |||
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"Do you remember any shops as a kid that no longer exist?. I remember a supermarket called presto in my local town, and also clothes shop called Fosters where you could get some really good stuff from. I had a weekend job in Fosters when I was a kid, that's a blast from the past. We also had an electrics store call Rumbelows. - Mr. B" LOL I used to work in Fosters at weekends too | |||
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"Here there used to be a bakers called Hot & Crusty, and on the other side of the street there was a pet shop called Wet & Furry. Always made me smile. In the same street now we have a cider shop next to an "adult" shop. Perhaps they should be called Scrumpy & Rumpy-Pumpy. " Very funny!!! And this weeks Oscar Wilde award goes to.... | |||
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"I once wandered off in town when I was little - the police found me in the window of C&A posing with the mannequins "Ha ha aha ha; brilliant! Doctor Nasty | |||
"I once wandered off in town when I was little - the police found me in the window of C&A posing with the mannequins "c&A were great when my kids were small size wise | |||
"we had a supermarket called Axe was the bakers you are trying to recall Skirrows ? loved their chips and gravy ...yum yum ! "No, not round here! Annoyingly I can remember the name of the local one that was NOT a chain, but not the name of the chain! | |||
"Redgates toy shop in Sheffield. Legendary!" Redgates, fond memories of practical jokes and Airfix models. From The Sheffield Star: SOME people might say Christmas is about good will to all men, or the giving rather than the receiving, or even some bloke called Jesus. But really, of course, deep down, the inner-child in us all knows that it's actually about toys. Brand new, brightly coloured, brilliant toys. And no-one in knows more about those than Michael Nunn, the last director of, and the fourth generation of his family to run, Sheffield's most legendary toy store. Redgates. "The build up to Christmas was always one of my favourite times of the year," says the 82 year old, today sitting in his Dore flat where model railways compete for space with old toy catalogues. "Children were always excited to come in our shop but at Christmas their faces took an altogether different glow." It is 22 years since Redgates - widely considered back then to be the country's finest toy shop outside of London - closed its doors. But it is back in the spotlight this festive season. Sheffield cartoonist Pete McKee has immortalised the Furnival Gate store in a new Christmas card while a series of online discussions have prompted huge feelings of nostalgia. "To anyone of a certain age," says Neil Anderson, author of The Shopaholics Guide To 1970's Sheffield. "Redgates was like a Yorkshire Disneyland. "Walking in there on a Saturday with a little money was like walking into a new universe." Little wonder. This was a primary colour heaven where a child would wander open-mouthed among three storeys of Lego, dolls houses, Subbuteo, Meccano, bikes, buggies, goal posts, Spiderman outfits, Matchbox cars, railway sets, wooden horses and board games. Staff, meanwhile, would be encouraged to show the youngsters how certain toys worked and even play with them. The whole thing was so appealing a police officer called to investigate a shop-lifting once reprimanded Michael. He told him it was his own fault for making the store so attractive to children that they could hardly be blamed for snatching something. "It is wonderful to think people still remember the shop with such fondness," says Michael. "It makes me very proud of my family and it makes me think, well, I didn't do too bad with my life." Certainly he didn't. Neither did his great granddad Edwin Redgate who founded the store in Fargate in 1857. It begun life, of all things, as a sewing machine and fur store. "He thought that would be the way to make his fortune," says Michael, a widower who has three daughters, one son, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. "And for a while it worked - certainly even when I was working at the store, more than 100 years later, we would get people asking for parts for Redgates sewing machines." So why the change? Around 1890 Edwin bought some cheap fur in London. Unfortunately it was so cheap, no-one bought the coats which were made from it. Ever the pragmatist, Edwin cut them up for pram covers...and bought a load of prams to sell! From there it was a small jump to wheeled toys, and from those just another small stop to toys in general. In 1918 Edwin's grandson - and Michael's dad - George visited the Manchester Toy Fair and decided, after years of slowly going that way, the business would become a fully-fledged toy shop. Fur and sewing machines were phased out until, after the store was bombed in the Sheffield Blitz and had to be relocated to Ecclesall Road. They were then completely got rid of. By the time Michael joined the business around 1948 it was a toy shop. "It's what I always wanted to do," he said. I wanted to keep the family tradition alive and I loved being in the shop. "I loved the feeling of innocent happiness it generated." As times got harder in the 1980s, however, warehouse style superstores like Toys R Us started to dominate the industry. Seeking to protect the shop's future, Michael sold it to Zodiac Toys, a UK chain, in 1986. That firm, itself, however, struggled to compete and closed in '88. "It was such a shame," says Michael. "I don't think children get the same sense of pleasure from the places that are around today. "They're just warehouses with no personality, like supermarkets. "They don't have the same magic." Red-dates: 1857 - E Redgate is opened by Edwin Redgates (above) in Fargate. It sells sewing machines and furs. 1890 onwards - Cheap fur which won't sell is used to make pram covers. Prams are sold for the first time to go with the covers. Wheeled toys are also brought in. 1895 - William S Nunn marries Edwin's daughter, Annie Gertrude, and later becomes a partner in the business. 1918 - George Nunn, son of William and Annie Gertrude brings more toys to the business after visiting Manchester Toy Fair. 1925 - The store moves to Moorhead for the first of two stays there. 1940 - The store is badly damaged during the Sheffield Blitz and relocates to Ecclesall Road. 1948 - Michael Nunn, the last member of the Redgate family to run the business, joins at just 20 years of age. 1954 - It moves back to Moorhead followed, in 1962, to Furnival Gate. 1986 - After 129 years as a family concern the store is sold to UK chain Zodiac Toys. 1988 - Zodiac shuts the store. | |||
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"Martin forde - the place to buy clothes in Romford x lol x "OMG and Mr Buyrite (don't think I spelt that right ) I worked for 1day in there, bored rigid straightening jeans all day  | |||
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"Hillards supermarket, Wimpy, Brentford Nylons now there's a serious blast from the past" There is a Wimpy in one of the service stations on the M6. Brentford Nylons, are there any of those left? Tandys? | |||
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"Oooh I need this thread - please tell me ancient fabsters in the south WHAT was the name of the chain of high street bakers that was in every high street 40 odd years ago, it's been driving me NUTS 'cos I can't remember?? I should know this x it'll come to me soon PLEEEESE!!"Mountstevens? They were a bristol based company, had a big factory on fishponds trading estate, I vaguely remember one being in westerham ( have family there) | |||
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"Hillards supermarket, Wimpy, Brentford Nylons now there's a serious blast from the past There is a Wimpy in one of the service stations on the M6. Brentford Nylons, are there any of those left? Tandys?" Tandy is Maplins now | |||
"Oooh I need this thread - please tell me ancient fabsters in the south WHAT was the name of the chain of high street bakers that was in every high street 40 odd years ago, it's been driving me NUTS 'cos I can't remember?? I should know this x it'll come to me soon PLEEEESE!!"Clarks bakery? or three cooks? | |||
" Clarks bakery? or three cooks?" or carricks ? | |||
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"Oooh I need this thread - please tell me ancient fabsters in the south WHAT was the name of the chain of high street bakers that was in every high street 40 odd years ago, it's been driving me NUTS 'cos I can't remember?? I should know this x it'll come to me soon PLEEEESE!!
Clarks bakery? or three cooks?"Mmmm - was it Clarks, that rings a vague bell? I remember them all over Kent, Surrey, London borders, and I think there was one in Cheltenham when I moved down there....will google the name and see if I can find an image. | |||
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"I haven't seen a knocking shop in ages. " | |||
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"Oooh I need this thread - please tell me ancient fabsters in the south WHAT was the name of the chain of high street bakers that was in every high street 40 odd years ago, it's been driving me NUTS 'cos I can't remember?? I should know this x it'll come to me soon PLEEEESE!!
Clarks bakery? or three cooks?"We had a 3cooks | |||
"Etam and Tammy Girl "theyre still around as brands inside BHS | |||
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"Hillards supermarket, Wimpy, Brentford Nylons now there's a serious blast from the past" brentford nylons bloody hell you sure you have your right age on here lol  | |||
"I remember a shop called Freeman hardy and willis - always sounded like a firm of solicitors, think it was a clothes shop or shoe shop. " it was a shoe shop i loved the shoes in there i used to save all my dinner money for them | |||
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"Here there used to be a bakers called Hot & Crusty, and on the other side of the street there was a pet shop called Wet & Furry. Always made me smile. " This reminds me of a chip shop we had by us called fat fannys as a child it was the funniest place ever and there's a shop that's still in bilston called bj's sweets & tobacco | |||
"Wavyline , Numark chemist , Bentalls, Tammy ,Dixons, Adams!! Ggrrrr , what was the furniture chajn that had shops at Matlock Darleydale and Measham ??? That is the only bit of the advert I can remember! :0))" DFS, they still have plenty of stores open | |||
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"Wavyline , Numark chemist , Bentalls, Tammy ,Dixons, Adams!! Ggrrrr , what was the furniture chajn that had shops at Matlock Darleydale and Measham ??? That is the only bit of the advert I can remember! :0)) DFS, they still have plenty of stores open "Ahh yes ! Thanks x | |||
"Oooh I need this thread - please tell me ancient fabsters in the south WHAT was the name of the chain of high street bakers that was in every high street 40 odd years ago, it's been driving me NUTS 'cos I can't remember?? I should know this x it'll come to me soon PLEEEESE!!
Clarks bakery? or three cooks?"Could it have been tooks. I remember it in ipswich when i was a kid | |||
"Hillards supermarket, Wimpy, Brentford Nylons now there's a serious blast from the past Brentford Nylons jeez... Serious blast from the past. I remember my mum buying me some purple nylon sheets for my bed....god I thought I was dead posh.....imagine nylon sheets now "I remember my mum put the dry sheets on top of the grill on the cooker and my sister turned the grill on for toast and melted the sheets! | |||
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"MFI" The original IKEA, suffered from usual British fate, not thinking big enough ... Sweden is 9m people, they had to find a bigger market so went global. MFI never even thought international ... ToysRUs, Walmart(Asda),McDonald's, KFC, ... Global killing local. Although I did find a Wimpey recently, can recall where. | |||
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" Although I did find a Wimpey recently, can recall where. " there is still a wimpy in Littlehampton town x | |||
