Shops from your childhood no longer around

Yes, and a folder - so many years ago - I have never changed accounts, well, I am with First Direct now!

Just on a break between interviews boss!!

Am pmsl at the gadget shop being from childhood ? it was started by a friend of mine, jonathan, and it only went tits up when he dyed his hair blond. i wonder if there was a correlation ?

It wasn't a wrap-around, it was shockingly short though!

Yes, I also had a Benetton rucksack - I used to write 'I am Skill' on it in tipex ?

Bennetton have conssesions and a large store on Oxford street i was gutted last year when i saw a bag i liked, i went to next a couple of stores away and then went back to get the bag only to find it sold with 15 mins and it was the last one. Typical ?

Anyone else remember Timothy Whites? think that was a part of Boots?

and, there was another shoe shop chain but I can't recall for the life of me what it was. It was a very cheapo chain, bit like FHW but cheaper!

Yes, but you are old.

Were you ever actually a child [pmsl] I bet you were a total know-it-all even then ?

Tandi- little electical goods, bought my Tomytronic from there.

Sketchleys- we are the meaning for cleaning

Also remember when the MEB had shops that sold electrical goods as well.

Didn't it become River Island? I had a fab jumper dress for Chelsea Girl as a youngster - it had cars on it!

That Virgin ad has made me sentimental about Our Price - got my first CD from the one in Blackpool.

Kwik Save, RIP. The one in my hometown had a random concession where I used to get my school uniform from, lol! Very nylon-ish, I seem to recall!

Dash? They still exist ?

Very Aberdeen-specific but Arnotts (my Dad's old empooyer) and Toy Bazaar (my aunt and uncle's shop).

Oooh we also had a fab ( at the time ) shop in Newcastle called SGT pepper which sold nearly everything with tassels on. Mainly jumpsuits and skirts.

They had to be worn with knee high boots from Barrets which also had tassels which wrapped around the top of the boot and tied at the front

PLEASE tell me im not the only one that had them mid 80's ?

? at "I am skill"!

Waaaah I'm getting sucked into old ads on YouTube now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chXw5hzrtt8&gl=GB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtkfE_OWSzo&gl=GB

LOL - One of them is the Leeds building society - "say The Leeds and you're smiling" - I remember that!

Yes by Pool Meadow bus station! I live in Nuneaton but my grandma lived in Cov and used to take us in on Saturdays. They had particular days when they offered pensioner specials

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Did you used to go to Wimpey in the Lower precinct too?

"Bender in a bun" anyone? ?

I LOVED Wimpy. Are they completely gone now? There was one in Nottingham for ages after I thought they'd all closed

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Good lord yes! I was totally taken in by the bank ads that offered free stuff when you open a child account, think I got a pencil case from Braclays and a piggy bank from TSB.

BTW i always wanted a Mr Frosty and never got one. Wonder if they still do them?

Correction I got the piggy bank from Natwest.?

Yup - but i lived in Pontypridd, so maybe Thoms was a welsh thing?

There are still Wimpys I recently went to one with mum when I went home to London. God I miss their homemade milkshakes wish we had a service one closer to us.

Someone said International, did you meant the supermarket? I so remember that!!! No one else ever knows what I am talking about when I mention it.

Our Price too, was just talking about that the other day.

There was somewhere that sold jeans..........maybe had yellow signage? All the rage in my teens- I think it may have been a mens' shop but it was fab for Levi's? Damn. What was it called?

Lois come and stay with me - there is a Wimpy about a two minute walk from my front door in East London. I *may* have eaten one of their egg and bacon baps following a recent night out...

Ah yes Our Price, sadly missed. When I had my Saturday job at a Newsagents, the guy who worked there that I had a huge crush on (until I found out his name was Wade and my ardour cooled) used to come into the shop to buy the milk for their tea breaks. My hands used to shake when I gave him back his change... ahhh what a loser I was! ?

? @ "I am skill" - excellent! We had the 'Benetton Brigade' at my secondary school who all had skirts up to their armpits and Benetton United Colours jumpers and bags. I was a geeky prefect so sadly missed out on the tippexing... although someone did write "RB wants Roddy's babies" on my folder in maths. It was true though, ah, Mr. Rodriguez....

There is a Wimpy in Camelot theme park, Charnock Richard. I've never eaten there though.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcXgX2tHxzg&feature=related

I was once in the Wimpey at Bristol when I was about 8 years old, and watched a man eat his meal and then wipe the cutlery on his trouser leg, put them in his inside pocket and walk out.

My bag (army-type canvas job from Affleck's Palace, Manchester) had all sorts Tippex-ed on it.....mostly about how cool I was and about How Miles from the Wonderstuff hearted me.

International became Gateway and then Somerfield.

Hehe god I loved those army type canvas bags. Mine was convincing me I was to marry Blaze Bayley from Iron Maiden...

What happened to Safeway?

I'm obviously older than the lot of you - I used to have a weekend job in MacMarket which became International!

Cromwell's Madhouse?

Waaah the piggies are coming!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD2eyXGngfo&gl=GB

Has anyone mentioned Keymarket yet? It was a supermarket and I've only ever seen one and that was in West Sussex, but I think it was a national chain?

I am loving this thread - [rotlf] @ Miles from The Wonderstuff hearted me.

Morrison's bought out Safeway to get a foot into the retail supermarket world down south. I hear that Co-op are buying Somerfield.

Since I moved to Harborne, our local supermarket has morphed from a Safeway to a Somerfield to a Waitrose. I hope it stops there! ?