Shop shite

[Wilko220]

Nothing to do with cars, but as we all like a bit of nostalgia here, I thought I would share this link from the BBC website.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16583070

 

I used to love wandering around the long-gone local town centre branch of Halfords, years before I was old enough to drive!

 

We also had a great branch of Tesco in the town with a Home 'n' Wear department upstairs! All gone now.

 

Anyone got any similar memories or pics?

[ProgRocker]

We also had a great branch of Tesco in the town with a Home 'n' Wear department upstairs! All gone now.

 

I remember the non food dept in Tesco. In the '80s when I was on holiday from school my mum and I would go into the upstairs on Tesco in the City Centre where there was a toy section and I was allowed to buy a Hasbro Trans Formers figure.

 

Once I grown out of Trans Formers I used to go to Woolworths, WH Smiths and the independent dept store Jarrolds to buy computer games on cassette for my secondhand Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k+

 

From that link, I also recall Athena too. Used to buy posters from there and I think they sold 'Purple Ronnie' merchandise there too.

[Cavcraft]

Been trying to find a link to Halfords when they were right in the city centre, but can't find any details/pictures.

[Wilko220]

Been trying to find a link to Halfords when they were right in the city centre, but can't find any details/pictures.

 

Here's a pic of the old Halfords in St Albans that I used to browse around in as a youngster. This pic is from 1986 but I think it was there much earlier than that - it's a clothes shop now, but the stone flooring in the doorway still has "Halfords" tiled into it! It closed when they opened an out of town one on a new retail park, some time in the mid-90s I think. Not the same...

 

[mattblack]

Found this site while looking for info on the 'Woolco' store in Oadby...

 

http://woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/index.htm

[Wilko220]

Some more shop nostalgia from my home town.

 

Auto magic...

 

 

We had a Blindells and a Blundells - both history now...

 

 

 

Boots is still around, albeit with less of a 70s typeface on the sign

 

 

Another one that still exists (just)

 

 

Some choice BHS flares on show...

 

 

And for the ladies...

 

 

Get your TVs here...

 

 

And your computers here...

 

 

This is what our Sainsbury's used to look like...

 

 

And this was bulldozed too

 

 

I realise there's a serious lack of shite content going on here, so have this little selection of tat as a bonus...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's all for now - let's see some of yours...

[Father Ted]

Found this site while looking for info on the 'Woolco' store in Oadby...

 

http://woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/index.htm

Cant find any of pictures of my old shop 1053-2 Lytham.

 

I had a load once upon a time, but Im fairly sure I binned them.

 

My old St Annes store, where I started as a Saturday Kid - I remember the vent on the roof being removed (used to be a cafe upstairs) and it had a bargain basement which was closed off in 1986 - turned into a stockroom which was weird with these two rather grand staircases leading up to a ceiling where they had been floored over!

[ashmicro]

Both long gone now, but we had Wilfit Bike and Auto, kind of like a small Halfords, and the main Austin Rover dealer (Charles Hurst) had a motor factors in the city centre. It was about 20 yards from the High Court, so GR32 for getting "bomb-damaged" stock for buttons. I once got a Peco back box and an Audioline car stereo for a fiver, neither of which was damaged. My Dad's old office was in the upstairs of the same building.

[pompei]

Is that George Orwell outside Sainsbury's?

[Split_Pin]

I remember the TV advert (I think it was a Scottish thing) for 'Glens, Hutchisons, Robertsons & Stepek - Altogether Better'.

 

Electrical retailers now long gone I think.

[CreepingJesus]

^Remember that one. You could always buy any given thing cheaper elsewhere!

I used to work for RS McColls. Every minute of every day was shite. So was the pay. Still, free 'condemned' sweeties, and plenty of time to read all the car/bike mags, 'cos of the lack of customers!