Re: Long lost shops
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:38 pm
Bejams isn't gone, they merged with iceland and took the other companies name.
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Re: Long lost shops
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:42 pm
TSB bank.
Re: Long lost shops
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 7:49 pm
I know, but it doesn't have the same ring as mums gone to bj's does it....TerryG wrote:Bejams isn't gone, they merged with iceland and took the other companies name.
Re: Long lost shops
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:44 pm
Timothy Whites - taken over, and closed down slowly over a period of time, by rival Boots.
Paul H
Paul H
Re: Long lost shops
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:07 pm
Gahh I feel young reading this 
it's only safeway, C&A, and Woolies out of that list I remember!
it's only safeway, C&A, and Woolies out of that list I remember!Re: Long lost shops
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:31 pm
C&A are still trading - just not in UK.Landy Mann wrote:Gahh I feel young reading this
http://www.c-and-a.com/
Paul H
Re: Long lost shops
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:34 pm
MacFisheries
Re: Long lost shops
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:24 pm
Not a "shop" per se, but whatever became of Wimpy, purveyors of slabs of dead animal in a roll?
Re: Long lost shops
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:29 pm
They're still around in this neck of the woods, there's one in the food court in the Buttermarket Centre in Ipswich and one in Lowestoft.but whatever became of Wimpy, purveyors of slabs of dead animal in a roll?
Re: Long lost shops
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:01 pm
Music has lost a lot 
the scene has obviously changed now with electronic media but I do miss the old style independant record shops, where you could hang around all afternoon if you wanted to. I used to go to Small Wonder in Hoe street, Walthamstow in the late 70's, it was run by Pete Stennet who looked like an old hippy and I don't think I EVER saw him without his wooly hat and not only did he run the shop, he also ran the Small Wonder label and produced and promoted the bands too. If he didn't like the cut of someones Jib he would just bluntly refuse to sell them anything and chuck them out of the shop......woe betide any soulboy who wandered in!
It's the same with the guitar shops, most are now gone- once upon a time you could spend a whole Saturday touring round them in East London- Leytonstone, where I still work, had Freedmans and Holiday music, both now gone although holiday are still working a mail order service out of Basildon, Freedmans had three floors, and after that it was off to Romford to Monkey Business where playing 'Stairway to Heaven' was banned, now also gone. About the only haut of my youth left now is Cliff Owen in Seven Kings, luckily still trading.
And don't get me started on all the scrapyards which have now gone- Rainham Marshes was a whole day out- yard after yard, probably 15 to 20 of them one after another now a poxy container depot
the scene has obviously changed now with electronic media but I do miss the old style independant record shops, where you could hang around all afternoon if you wanted to. I used to go to Small Wonder in Hoe street, Walthamstow in the late 70's, it was run by Pete Stennet who looked like an old hippy and I don't think I EVER saw him without his wooly hat and not only did he run the shop, he also ran the Small Wonder label and produced and promoted the bands too. If he didn't like the cut of someones Jib he would just bluntly refuse to sell them anything and chuck them out of the shop......woe betide any soulboy who wandered in! It's the same with the guitar shops, most are now gone- once upon a time you could spend a whole Saturday touring round them in East London- Leytonstone, where I still work, had Freedmans and Holiday music, both now gone although holiday are still working a mail order service out of Basildon, Freedmans had three floors, and after that it was off to Romford to Monkey Business where playing 'Stairway to Heaven' was banned, now also gone. About the only haut of my youth left now is Cliff Owen in Seven Kings, luckily still trading.
And don't get me started on all the scrapyards which have now gone- Rainham Marshes was a whole day out- yard after yard, probably 15 to 20 of them one after another now a poxy container depot