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Shops that have gone from the high street
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over a year ago
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What ones do you remember?
C&A |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
Etam, Chelsea Girl |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Woolworths was the saddest loss, used to love buying my vinyl from there when I was a youth. |
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over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Tammy girl! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Etam, Chelsea Girl"
Isn't the Chelsea Girl brand back? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Woolworths was the saddest loss, used to love buying my vinyl from there when I was a youth."
Happy days  |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"Etam, Chelsea Girl
Isn't the Chelsea Girl brand back?"
Could be, but I've not seen any of the shops around lately. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sweater shop  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Woolworths was the saddest loss, used to love buying my vinyl from there when I was a youth."
I was so happy in hmv the other day, they had quite a large vinyl collection, I was in heaven! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Rumbelows |
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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago
North of The Wall - youll need your vest |
"Rumbelows"
That the first one I thought of.
And Brentford Nylons. Static shock from getting into bed at night. Whatever happened to bri-nylon sheets? |
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I can think of any, and I worked in retail for a while  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Our price and Sam goody |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What ones do you remember?
C&A "
Loads of C&As in Brazil   |
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Oh yeah Our Price, I should have remembered that one, I worked for HMV.
Is Miss Selfridge still going? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Bejams |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Freeman, Hardy & Willis, Owen Owen, Blacklers, Lewis's |
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over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh yeah Our Price, I should have remembered that one, I worked for HMV.
Is Miss Selfridge still going?"
Yeah I think there is one in bluewater still |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What ones do you remember?
C&A
Loads of C&As in Brazil "
You seem them in Germany as well C&As |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What ones do you remember?
C&A
Loads of C&As in Brazil
You seem them in Germany as well C&As"
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Victoria Wine and Peter Dominic  |
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By *educedWoman
over a year ago
Birmingham |
"What ones do you remember?
C&A
Loads of C&As in Brazil
You seem them in Germany as well C&As"
And Mexico! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Safeway
Presto
Kwik Save
Somerfield
Fine Fare |
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By *isa 59Woman
over a year ago
Newcastle |
"Freeman, Hardy & Willis, Owen Owen, Blacklers, Lewis's"
If you mean John Lewis then they are still on the High Street.
I loved Dolcis for shoes but really miss Ravel  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Benetton
Bank
Derber
Mark One
Ethel Austin |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ethel Austin
What everyone wants.
Woolworths.
The More Store.
Everyone of them were crap shops. So it's no surprise that they are no longer around.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Comet |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Video shops |
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over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ron's chippy |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Our Price,Record Shop I spent hours in there. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Benetton
Bank
Derber
Mark One
Ethel Austin"
I loved mark one, my Saturday was spent on the train to Bromley, McDonald's, Mark one and our price was the usual stops, all on a tenner  |
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"Bejams"
Didn't they become Iceland? |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
Bristol |
I used to love Etam and Tammy Girl. Apparently you can still get Etam stuff in France. And I haven't seen a Londis in bloody years. |
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"Freeman, Hardy & Willis, Owen Owen, Blacklers, Lewis's
If you mean John Lewis then they are still on the High Street.
I loved Dolcis for shoes but really miss Ravel "
Lewis's was a dept store I think, not linked to JL. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Home and Colonial |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Littlewoods with the index stores inside
Revolver records |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Home and Colonial Stores. They always smelled of bacon and cheese. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I used to love Etam and Tammy Girl. Apparently you can still get Etam stuff in France. And I haven't seen a Londis in bloody years."
Come to Edenbridge if you want a londis! |
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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago
Catthorpe |
"What ones do you remember?
C&A
Loads of C&As in Brazil
You seem them in Germany as well C&As
And Mexico! "
Montpellier in France also (a few months back). They was an Etam there also, as well as a fully functioning Bennetton, felt like 1995.
Him |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There's still a couple about, but don't forget Wimpy |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Sock Shop.
Pollards.
Peter Jones.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Callers in Newcastle was the best shop ever in the 70s |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There's still a couple about, but don't forget Wimpy "
We lost two local ones recently. Can't beat a Wimpey. |
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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago
harrow |
Virgin - you used to see one in a street corner |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Burtons. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Virgin - you used to see one in a street corner "
Lol
Tower records!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lo cost. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Virgin - you used to see one in a street corner "
Not many around here |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Dirty Book Shops,,,, |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bartons the bakers. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Dirty Book Shops,,,, "
We have one in our town |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Dirty Book Shops,,,,
We have one in our town "
Has it got them blacked out windows so you can't see who's inside |
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lyons ....old tea /cake shop café heaven in the old days |
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And Ames Records from the North West, bought by Virgin. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Dirty Book Shops,,,,
We have one in our town
Has it got them blacked out windows so you can't see who's inside "
The whole front is blacked out but it's on the main road so people can see you go in. I sometimes go in when I visit my doctors,I only buy lube though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was an etam girl |
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"Dirty Book Shops,,,,
We have one in our town
Has it got them blacked out windows so you can't see who's inside
The whole front is blacked out but it's on the main road so people can see you go in. I sometimes go in when I visit my doctors,I only buy lube though."
One of the ones we go to in Brighton has blacked out windows and you need to be buzzed in. |
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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago
between havant and chichester |
Millets
share(like superdrug)
la zensa
mr butch
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"There's still a couple about, but don't forget Wimpy "
Still have 2 Wimpys here in Southend! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Tie Shop - ties no more.
Pizzaland
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Richard Shops. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Blockbuster - they've been annihilated |
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By *entenTeaCouple
over a year ago
Buckley North Wales |
Beaties, Model Zone, Wollies, way too many model shops, Borders Books. Those are the ones I miss.
L |
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"I used to love Etam and Tammy Girl. Apparently you can still get Etam stuff in France. And I haven't seen a Londis in bloody years."
Get up to London, loads of Londis shops.
Bejams is now Iceland, chelsea girl is River Island.
Evans (fat shop) have mostly disappeared but you find them occasionally in a retail park, and the marble arch store was still going strong in July when I was late there!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Millets
share(like superdrug)
la zensa
mr butch
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Still a millets near me! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Firkins the bakers.
Ginos pizza's
Tandy's (think they trade abroad still under Radio Shack).
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lo cost. "
Lol brings back memories!
Going shopping as a kid and you had them cartoon boothes, you stuck 20p in to watch a cartoon while the parents shopped. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ratners.
Famously no longer in business. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Army and Navy surplus stores. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Littlewoods with the index stores inside
Revolver records "
Pretty sure I remember revolver.
Netto |
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"Burtons. "
There's one in Derby |
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"The Sock Shop.
Pollards.
Peter Jones.
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Peter Jones still here in London's Sloan Square. We locals named it the Vomitorium
as it suffered a dreadful remodelling involving a ground
to top floor well that gave customers terrible vertigo that caused them to throw up over the balconies. |
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"What ones do you remember?
C&A "
Safeways |
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By *jandjbCouple
over a year ago
Nr Manchester |
"What ones do you remember?
C&A
Loads of C&As in Brazil
You seem them in Germany as well C&As"
And Austria! |
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By *jandjbCouple
over a year ago
Nr Manchester |
Does anyone remember Bus Stop?
They sold Biba clothes and makeup! Fantastic stuff! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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la senza |
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over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bay trading company - I worked there when I was a student. I remember getting a huge 40% off and my wardrobe consisted of the deep V's they sold as it looked cracking on my cleavage and was dirt cheap!
Used to shop in MK one as well.
I miss Adams clothes for the kids
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Spud U Like |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Spud U Like"
sure ive seen these back somewhere
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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just youtube 80's adverts and take a trip down memory lane.
i miss the local toy shops. everytown had one, ours was called Toytown and had everything you could think of. better than hamleys. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Callers in Newcastle was the best shop ever in the 70s"
Well their record department was,,got my Police six pack there in blue vinyl |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Beattie's model shops |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Etam, Chelsea Girl
Isn't the Chelsea Girl brand back?"
Yes some river island stores do this range I think |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh yeah Our Price, I should have remembered that one, I worked for HMV.
Is Miss Selfridge still going?"
Yes still about |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mc Fisheries, Bejam, Safeway's, |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh yeah Our Price, I should have remembered that one, I worked for HMV.
Is Miss Selfridge still going?
Yes still about"
Oh how I absolutely loved Miss Selfridge!
At 16 (back in old 1988) I spent £50 of my £70 wages in there every week.
Heaven!
It sowed the seeds of my shopping addiction though |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Freeman, Hardy & Willis, Owen Owen, Blacklers, Lewis's
If you mean John Lewis then they are still on the High Street.
I loved Dolcis for shoes but really miss Ravel
Lewis's was a dept store I think, not linked to JL. "
That's right. One in Manchester and one in Liverpool |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Benetton
Bank
Derber
Mark One
Ethel Austin
I loved mark one, my Saturday was spent on the train to Bromley, McDonald's, Mark one and our price was the usual stops, all on a tenner "
They did some nice bits in there to be fair! MK one did too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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La senza |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There's still a couple about, but don't forget Wimpy "
Wimpy still exists. There's one in broadmarsh shopping centre in Nottingham
Blockbuster, netto, fatty Arbuckle's, and Safeway though |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ratners lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Spud U Like
sure ive seen these back somewhere
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There's one in McArthur glen off j28 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There's still a couple about, but don't forget Wimpy "
There's still a Wimpy not too far from me, gets really busy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There's still a couple about, but don't forget Wimpy
There's still a Wimpy not too far from me, gets really busy. "
Used to be one not far from me either but think that's gone now |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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La Senza for nice underwear |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"There's still a couple about, but don't forget Wimpy
There's still a Wimpy not too far from me, gets really busy.
Used to be one not far from me either but think that's gone now"
There is one in Newtown Abbot. The thing I remember most about Wimpy is watery tomato ketchup |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There's still a couple about, but don't forget Wimpy
There's still a Wimpy not too far from me, gets really busy.
Used to be one not far from me either but think that's gone now
There is one in Newtown Abbot. The thing I remember most about Wimpy is watery tomato ketchup "
Oh yes, would squirt all over the table from the kitsch tomato shaped dispenser |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Habitat |
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Kwik save, netto, snow city, littlewoods and tj hughes. |
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By *errygTV/TS
over a year ago
denton |
television repair shops, there was a ucp tripe shop local to me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Curtis shoe shop |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm sure I saw a netto in playa Blanca.
I give you Zavvi
(Great business model, let's sell for £14.99 something you can get for £8 on Amazon)
Also how on earth do CarpetRight ever survive ?. I never see a single person in one of their stores |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Carpet right has a permanent sale!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Good fish shop in Wilmslow but the owner is wet! |
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over a year ago
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"Carpet right has a permanent sale!!!"
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over a year ago
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Mark and moodys ...
Chattin and hortons ... I went to see father Christmas there ... happy days |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We had Bwise? |
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over a year ago
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John Collier |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Dunn and Co (think they were swallowed up by Burtons)
Fads
Do It All
Liptons
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"television repair shops, there was a ucp tripe shop local to me"
Radio Rentals. What was that place all about! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"There's still a couple about, but don't forget Wimpy "
How they are still going I'll never know. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Dirty Book Shops,,,,
We have one in our town
Has it got them blacked out windows so you can't see who's inside
The whole front is blacked out but it's on the main road so people can see you go in. I sometimes go in when I visit my doctors,I only buy lube though.
One of the ones we go to in Brighton has blacked out windows and you need to be buzzed in."
Is that the Private Shop near the station? |
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"Radio rentals.
Dixons.
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Dixons I,m sure we have got them In derby still.
Ranbys prior to woolworths or was that the stores first name they had. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ketts is another one that springs to mind. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lots of brilliant lovely independent record shops |
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"What ones do you remember?
C&A
Loads of C&As in Brazil
You seem them in Germany as well C&As
And Mexico!
Montpellier in France also (a few months back). They was an Etam there also, as well as a fully functioning Bennetton, felt like 1995.
Him "
without a doubt how 20 years on the high street can change Along with development, every decade that goes by you can start with a little wow and end up with bigger wows The further you go back, derbys high street shops have been transformed in 40 years along with a new shopping centre well two in that time. |
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"Littlewoods with the index stores inside
Revolver records "
good lord littlewoods, they did the football pools Did,nt they ? |
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over a year ago
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Is BHS still around? Not seen any for years. |
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"Radio rentals.
Dixons.
Dixons I,m sure we have got them In derby still.
Ranbys prior to woolworths or was that the stores first name they had."
Dixons merged with Carphone Warehouse, and Ranbys became Debenhams when it was on Victoria St, now Silly Sids  |
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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
Titz Towers, North Notts |
Mrs Miggins' Pie Shop |
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over a year ago
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Crazy Georges. |
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"Burtons.
There's one in Derby "
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"Army and Navy surplus stores. "
one in derby.
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over a year ago
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"What ones do you remember?
C&A "
C&A still around on the continent. Saw one in Barcelona this summer, looked dated though. |
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"Is BHS still around? Not seen any for years."
Went in one today in Crawley |
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"Safeway
Presto
Kwik Save
Somerfield
Fine Fare "
kwik save was taken out my somerfields and somerfields was taken out by the co op where I live, I think safeway to locally.. |
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"Is BHS still around? Not seen any for years."
Big BHS in Victoria Centre in Nottingham. |
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"Safeway
Presto
Kwik Save
Somerfield
Fine Fare kwik save was taken out my somerfields and somerfields was taken out by the co op where I live, I think safeway to locally.."
spar stores are a novelty when you see any Pleased they still are I can remember seeing spar shops advertised on the tv As a kid back in the late 60,s or early 70,s, the ones I last saw were in deepest norfolk back in the 90,s, Sometimes not another shop for miles in some little villages.. |
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"Is BHS still around? Not seen any for years."
gone from derby m&s took them over.
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"Radio rentals.
Dixons.
Dixons I,m sure we have got them In derby still.
Ranbys prior to woolworths or was that the stores first name they had.
Dixons merged with Carphone Warehouse, and Ranbys became Debenhams when it was on Victoria St, now Silly Sids "
the change over there is astounding thanks for that, a New one is Electronics these stores seem to breed.. |
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"John Collier "
John collier John collier the window to watch..ha ha ha.
Burtons became top man I think..
Anyone remember stuckeys???
Hepworths? Austins? |
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over a year ago
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Vagina Close, used to buy my sweets from there |
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"Vagina Close, used to buy my sweets from there"
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"What ones do you remember?
C&A
Loads of C&As in Brazil "
C&A in Gibralta was in it in Summer |
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"Is BHS still around? Not seen any for years.gone from derby m&s took them over."
One in Gateshead Metro centre |
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By *itzWoman
over a year ago
south wales |
"Lots of brilliant lovely independent record shops "
Cobb's |
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Lennons, a supermarket.
Radio rentals,
littlewoods,
Woolworths,
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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago
Northampton Somewhere |
Has anyone mentioned Chelsea Girl? |
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over a year ago
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Rediffusion! yes i am old! |
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"Hmv
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HMV are back! And their new stores are actaully better than the ones that closed a couple of years ago. I actually find stuff in there that I want! |
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over a year ago
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"Principles ladies wear "
forgot about this one |
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over a year ago
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Officers club,
Adams
Index
Electronic boutique
Gamestation |
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"Hmv
HMV are back! And their new stores are actaully better than the ones that closed a couple of years ago. I actually find stuff in there that I want!"
I use to love HMV in Hull . A gang of us used to hang about in there trying to look cool |
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"Hmv
HMV are back! And their new stores are actaully better than the ones that closed a couple of years ago. I actually find stuff in there that I want!"
I think we have 2 in Harlow I know we have 1 |
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By *vie RuthWoman
over a year ago
Just where the rainbow end.s . . |
Pimletts pies Famous in St Helens |
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over a year ago
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Texas home care
Do it all
Comet
Miller brothers
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use to nick loads of dinky cars from woolworths when i was a school kid |
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"use to nick loads of dinky cars from woolworths when i was a school kid "
so it was you who bankrupted em |
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"use to nick loads of dinky cars from woolworths when i was a school kid so it was you who bankrupted em "
haha you mean you never nicked any thing from woolworths |
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Zodiac Toys.
Wasn't a chain, just an independent toy shop in Letchworth Garden City. As a kid I always found some little item I wanted in there.
John Menzies. |
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By *isa 59Woman
over a year ago
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"Is BHS still around? Not seen any for years.gone from derby m&s took them over.
One in Gateshead Metro centre"
Defo still in Leeds. |
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Toy 'n'hobby. Adored that place lol |
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over a year ago
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Walter Smith the Butchers, not sure if there still around and if it's only a Midlands chain or nationwide? |
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