[Closed] Shops that are no longer in existence

Motor World
Max Spielmann
Photo Processing or whatever it was called
Principles

There was also a posh town, higher end, wine group (bit like Majestic) in the 80's, 90's and 2000's who went bust shortly after Thresher Group, can't recall the name, maybe someone else can?. I expect someone bought the brand name from the administrators and might be still going in a pocket of little Englandshire.

Berkeley wines? Oddbins?

Oddbins was who I was thinking of 🙂

Keymarkets

International Stores

Officers Club

Officers Club

still loads of them about

Oddbins was who I was thinking of

Theres still one in Glasgow. I think theres just far fewer off-licenses full stop. Seems to be a city centre only business model now.

B.A.Nana - Member
Motor World
Max Spielmann
Photo Processing or whatever it was called
Principles

Max Spielmann is still going - there is one in the big Tesco in Chesterfield.

Its an interesting thread - quite a few of the business listed are actually still going but many have changed their business model to online only such as Motorworld http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Motor-World-Direct and Fat Willys http://www.fatwillyssurfshack.co.uk/

Fat Willy's Surfshack. Used to be one in Southport and Blackpool.

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Its an interesting thread - quite a few of the business listed are actually still going

A few places seem to have turned into franchises within other businesss - like a Spielmans inside a supermarket - rather than having their own shops. I thought Wimpy had finally gone now but looked them up and theres one just up the road from me - but its inside a bowling alley so you'd never see it and the other other nearby branches are inside theme parks.

Fat Willies was alive and trading in Falmouth two weeks ago. Maybe the surf in Southport wasn't up to much.

but its inside a bowling alley so you'd never see it

Unless you were bowling. 😀

Love that pic ^ don't know where it is but the era takes me back to my teens when half the stuff was boarded up and though it was the 80s most small towns were still relics of the decades 40s-60s. Some kids fathers still sported DAs and receding quiffs and people smoked all of the time everywhere.

ftfy btw 🙂

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I also remember when small shoe shops sold mostly shoes. In the sports section you might choose either Dunlop Green Flash or two types of Plimsolls (black or white with a red stripe around the rand)

Freeman Hardy Willis
Saxone
Dolcis
Trueform
Stead and Simpson

Don't worry Brexit will bring that back.

Used to be a clothes shop in Watford called Moist, there was one in Hatfield too in the Galleria.

In my late teens it always had the cutest girls working there and took a reasonable amount of my paycheck for weird clothing like Kronk trousers.

In my hometown,in the 70's. There was one little shop that opened on Christmas day. "Daglishs'" ,or "Amy's". I was quite sad to see that one go.(into the 80's I'm happy to say).

Incidentally it used to be 27 PENCE! for a coffee in Wimpy when I was 14.

Cult Clothing in Cheltenham was the place to buy converse all stars in the 90s. Gone now.

Turns out, it became Superdry and the owner is now a multi millionaire.

For the North Easterners, I was going to say Le Breve but apparently they have re-launched.

At least the horror that was Geordie Jeans is no longer with us.

What is/was 'Turog' Bread? I want some. The name conjures up robust visions. Visions of primordial and grainy slabs of healthfulness.

The kind of bread you eat just before rubbing some lard on your tits then swimming out into a Northern sea. Just to punch a whale. In his bolx.

grainy slabs of healthfulness.

Google seems to say it was a healthy wholegrain flour, similar to Hovis.

For the North Easterners, I was going to say Le Breve

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Drac- Not sure what that's all about? You being cryptic?

No the link broke.

Saxone

Just been working on a sculpture commission about Saxone close to where their factory was up here.

Its funny isn't it - we'll probably never again be a society so optimistic as to carve the name of a business into the fabric of a building rather than just screw a bit of backlit perspex on.

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Redifusion - another place to rent your tv from. I remember renting our telly from them, did anyone else?

Mentioned on the 'Things you don't see' thread

The Electricity shop (you know, the ones that were for the company you bought actual electricity from)

I think they're all gone now. The reason the power companies (Manweb and Norweb where I grew up) ran their own electrical goods shops was because they were trying to shape demand and smooth out peaks and troughs in power consumption. So they were keen to sell (and sell the idea of) anything that was on all the time and especially anything that was on over night such as fridges and freezers.

Maybe the surf in Southport wasn't up to much.

best laugh had in a while

Key Market

Softy's hard stuff Bolton , home of low quality grot

Black Sedan Records

Barrett's Music

Freewheel/On Yer Bike

Safeway's

Pretty sure they're still going in the 'states. Owned by Walmart.