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Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 1:48 am
by No Ney Never
BHS
C&A
Dixons
Kwik Save
Our Price Records
Zodiac Toys
Woolworths
Burtons
Top Shop
Top Man
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 2:38 am
by Grimsdale
Benns
Fitzpatricks
Malcolm Yardleys
Safeway
Moneysave
Taskers
Oobidoo
Hitchens
Record Exchange
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:15 am
by Clive 1960
Rumbelows
Colour vision
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:20 am
by Carlos the Great
Toys R Us
Lewis’s Department stores
Binns
Gentleman Johns
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:42 am
by Burnley1989
JJB
Gibsons
Blockbuster
Mother care
Lunn Poly
All Sports
Going Places
Thomas Cook
Comet
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:43 am
by steve1264b
Tandy
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:45 am
by Firthy
Soon there won't be a high street thanks to internet shopping.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:48 am
by Pheonixknight
Wimpys (Though there was still one on the I.O.W).
Norweb.
Granada Service Stations ( not quite the remit I know).
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:54 am
by timshorts
No Ney Never wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 1:48 am
BHS
C&A
Dixons
Kwik Save
Our Price Records
Zodiac Toys
Woolworths
Burtons
Top Shop
Top Man
I was in c & a in schleswig last week. They also have a woolworths. C & a is in loads of high streets just over the water. Now that debenhams is gone, it's a decent place to do clothes shopping.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 7:26 am
by Muric Leggings
My all time favourites as an 18 year old boy
Stolen from Ivor in Bury
And Benn's in Burnley for Warhammer and Lego.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 7:30 am
by Rumpelstiltskin
timshorts wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:54 am
I was in c & a in schleswig last week. They also have a woolworths. C & a is in loads of high streets just over the water. Now that debenhams is gone, it's a decent place to do clothes shopping.
Decent C & A in Krakow.Bought a pair of jeans in there a few weeks ago.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 7:40 am
by Shappie
John Menzies
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:17 am
by aclaretinstevenage
Firthy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:45 am
Soon there won't be a high street thanks to internet shopping.
Exactly this. Bezos getting richer and richer while high streets are dying, problem is it's too b****y convenient buying everything on line and somebody dropping it at your doorstep!
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:17 am
by Turf War Claret
Thornton’s
Solid Sounds (Burnley)
Ratners
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:27 am
by Jakubclaret
Tandy in its time back then was a good store it's where I first got my realistic scanner from & lot's of CB equipment.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:29 am
by Cheshireclaret
Freeman, Hardy & Willis
Dolcis
ETAM / Tammy Girl (although like C&A, still trades abroad)
Dorothy Perkins
Fast Fashion has accounted for much, if not all, of this demise!
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:37 am
by tally
Action
Primark
Poundland
just to name a few reasons why
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:40 am
by AGENT_CLARET
Mothercare and Adams
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:48 am
by Venkys4eva
aclaretinstevenage wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:17 am
Exactly this. Bezos getting richer and richer while high streets are dying, problem is it's too b****y convenient buying everything on line and somebody dropping it at your doorstep!
Not just convenient but also cheaper to buy online.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:52 am
by dougcollins
Massive miss for me - Maplins.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:53 am
by bigdavethemaddog
Border books
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:54 am
by Jakubclaret
Venkys4eva wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:48 am
Not just convenient but also cheaper to buy online.
Exactly hardly any overheads the distribution hubs pick & pack at volume on scale.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 9:24 am
by Hipper
aclaretinstevenage wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:17 am
Exactly this. Bezos getting richer and richer while high streets are dying, problem is it's too b****y convenient buying everything on line and somebody dropping it at your doorstep!
It's more then just convenience. It's the massive choice, the fact that if something exists you can reasonably easily find it. It can also often be cheaper as online you can sell to the world whereas a shop is geographically limited. Shop's probably have greater overheads too.
Generally I don't miss them.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 9:57 am
by Steve1956
Nobbut Lads in the now gone precinct in Rawtenstall...lived in there in the 70s/80s..my tab was astronomical
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:04 am
by Marvins Van
My youth.
Cockers.
Alien.
Electron Records.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:05 am
by Steve1956
Marvins Van wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:04 am
My youth.
Cockers.
Alien.
Electron Records.
Isn't Electron still there?
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:09 am
by Clive 1960
Harry Mack's on Parliament Street decent fishing tackle.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:14 am
by get stuck in tracy
Websters toy shop
Luptons book shop
Motormania
Carstuff
Motorist Discount Center
Radio Rentals
Redifusion
Granada
Wimpey
Stonedry ?
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:20 am
by jdrobbo
Kwik Save
Our Price
Metro
Etam
Virgin Megastore
Body Shop
Lunn Polly (‘get away’
)
Radio Rentals
Burtons
Safeway
Maplin
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:44 am
by kentonclaret
Liptons
Home and Colonial
Maypole
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:45 am
by northeastclaret
Taskers on Plum Street
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:46 am
by AlargeClaret
Steve1956 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 9:57 am
Nobbut Lads in the now gone precinct in Rawtenstall...lived in there in the 70s/80s..my tab was astronomical
Wasn’t Nobbut’s at the bottom end of Bank? st or has it moved from the precinct yrs before ?
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:49 am
by Volvoclaret
John Collier....the window to watch
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:59 am
by Steve1956
AlargeClaret wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:46 am
Wasn’t Nobbut’s at the bottom end of Bank? st or has it moved from the precinct yrs before ?
It started in the Precinct buddy then moved to bigger premises at the bottom shop in Bank st...think its s cafe now.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:06 am
by claptrappers_union
Wilkos is on it's way out I believe
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:11 am
by Clive 1960
De Whits on Lyndhurst Road.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:16 am
by JoStarling
Steve1956 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:05 am
Isn't Electron still there?
Yes amazingly still there at the top of Hall St- since 1955. . It was either there or the long gone Record Exchange on Standish st for a regular Saturday afternoon jaunt to bag the latest Van der Graaf Generator !
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:17 am
by bfcjg
Timothy Whites, rival chemist chain to Boots.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:21 am
by Cooclaret
Firthy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:45 am
Soon there won't be a high street thanks to internet shopping.
And rightly so…
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:27 am
by MeeActon1
Cordon Bleu in Burnley town centre.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:30 am
by Firthy
Cooclaret wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:21 am
And rightly so…
You won't catch anyone with that bait
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:33 am
by Steve1956
JoStarling wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:16 am
Yes amazingly still there at the top of Hall St- since 1955. . It was either there or the long gone Record Exchange on Standish st for a regular Saturday afternoon jaunt to bag the latest Van der Graaf Generator !
Ahhhh ......Van der Graaf Generator...they deserve a thread all of their own
H to He...fantastic album.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:37 am
by Cooclaret
Firthy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:30 am
You won't catch anyone with that bait
No bait, I think that non consumable items should be internet, practical and cost effective. I don’t need to go and ‘try’ anything anymore. It works/fits or I send it back.
Consumables, should always be local to the community you’re in.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:46 am
by AlargeClaret
Steve1956 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:59 am
It started in the Precinct buddy then moved to bigger premises at the bottom shop in Bank st...think its s cafe now.
Yes that would make sense , think they sent bump about 99/2000 ish . I’ll never forget buying a v expensive yellow ( it was the 80’s) Pringle wool golf jumper , only to get food spilt down it . Mate said you need to boil wash it in a pan. Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor would have been better… happy days
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:51 am
by HahaYeah
Bob Whittakers on Queen Victoria Road. Cycling stuff and more importantly, subbuteo teams.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:59 am
by Steve1956
AlargeClaret wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:46 am
Yes that would make sense , think they sent bump about 99/2000 ish . I’ll never forget buying a v expensive yellow ( it was the 80’s) Pringle wool golf jumper , only to get food spilt down it . Mate said you need to boil wash it in a pan. Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor would have been better… happy days
The smell of Aramis as you walked through the doors was a welcoming aroma as a prelude to spending a fortune
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 12:14 pm
by aclaretinstevenage
Hipper wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 9:24 am
It's more then just convenience. It's the massive choice, the fact that if something exists you can reasonably easily find it. It can also often be cheaper as online you can sell to the world whereas a shop is geographically limited. Shop's probably have greater overheads too.
Generally I don't miss them.
In the transition period between fully populated high street shops and the almost inevitable move to no shop units in towns centres and high streets the growing sight of empty units falling into disrepair projects an image of poverty and dereliction. It makes for a poor experience in towns across the country.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 12:22 pm
by bobinho
Grimsdale wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 2:38 am
Benns
Fitzpatricks
Malcolm Yardleys
Safeway
Moneysave
Taskers
Oobidoo
Hitchens
Record Exchange
I used to shoot with Malcolm Yardley. Lovely, lovely man. He represented GB at the olympics ya know! 400m if memory serves. Rome 1960 I think it was.
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 12:51 pm
by GordonvaleClaret
Ardal
Corellas
Stockdales
Re: Lost Shops from the High Street
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 1:16 pm
by karatekid
Marvins Van wrote: ↑Sat Aug 19, 2023 10:04 am
My youth.
Cockers.
Alien.
Electron Records.
Is Cockers now on Sandygate?
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