Your favourite shop to visit ?

FX_Munkee

D Byrne & Co in Clitheroe, don't get there very often unfortunately.

https://dbyrne-finewines.co.uk/

Nitefly

FX_Munkee said:

D Byrne & Co in Clitheroe, don't get there very often unfortunately.

https://dbyrne-finewines.co.uk/

Good call!  And if you're in Clitheroe, you might as well go up towards the castle and visit :

http://www.cowmans.co.uk/

The best sausages in the world!

Budgie

RaymondLin said:

Budgie said:

I quite like garden centres.... well, the plants bit anyway. Used book shops would be another favourite. Crikey, I sound old!

Have you been to Hay on Wye?

I haven’t actually. Me and Mrs. B were talking about it over the weekend.

Tone71

Used to be Books Bits and Bobs but that's now long gone so it has to be Whole Foods Market.

Guitar store is Guitar Village without a shadow of a doubt

Dominic

Lock and Company  Hatters of Piccadilly
 My friend Roger is a Director and his family founded the business 230 years ago....They still make black silk Toppers for Ascot and the like which would set you back about £4000 each !
They made hats for The Duke of Wellington , Atlee , Baldwin ,Churchill and many Royals but the best name in their order book was from the early 1970s ......Mr A. Chimp
Who was ,in fact, the chimpanzee from the old Tetley Tea Adverts 
less interesting major clients include a certain Mr D Beckham .

RaymondLin

Budgie said:

RaymondLin said:

Budgie said:

I quite like garden centres.... well, the plants bit anyway. Used book shops would be another favourite. Crikey, I sound old!

Have you been to Hay on Wye?

I haven’t actually. Me and Mrs. B were talking about it over the weekend.

It will be your heaven.

random fact...all the local banks has closed in the town, there is only 1 cash point there now (one other was ram raided last week....but empty), and the only cash point left (post office) is constantly empty because of it so I’d bring plenty of cash with you otherwise you will need to do a lot of cash back.

underdog

It has to be M&P motorcycles in Swansea.

cosmiccarrot

For me it has to be Jeffery West in manchester, they make some of the maddest shoes on the planet... of got a few of their 'plainer' shoes, quality is excellent. One day I'll get to their head office.

https://www.jeffery-west.co.uk/jefferywest/index.asp?page=manchester-43

stimpsonslostson

Dominic said:

Lock and Company  Hatters of Piccadilly
 My friend Roger is a Director and his family founded the business 230 years ago....They still make black silk Toppers for Ascot and the like which would set you back about £4000 each !
They made hats for The Duke of Wellington , Atlee , Baldwin ,Churchill and many Royals but the best name in their order book was from the early 1970s ......Mr A. Chimp
Who was ,in fact, the chimpanzee from the old Tetley Tea Adverts 
less interesting major clients include a certain Mr D Beckham .

Is that the same shop that appears in the Kingsman movie? 
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/kingsman-the-secret-service/images/5/5f/Lock_&_Co._Hatters.png/revision/latest?cb=20171124222238

ESBlonde

There used to be a wonderful old school hardware and domestic goods retailed in Heacham, just south of Hunstanton by the name of TG Bradfield and Sons. You could get all the typical hardware goods and furniture and kitchenware under one rambling shop made up of several properties linked together.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9081403,0.4941667,3a,75y,131.19h,88.13t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8asdXERItE8ZQdbC04D4dQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Sadly they retired and closed down a couple of year ago, but it was always worth a browse whenever you were in the area. Although it's in the high street, it's surrounded by mainly houses.

If thats the kind of old world shopping charm you like, then this place has it too:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9564804,0.8522606,3a,75y,46.85h,80.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srslSKzk3FEZcp4NURhSWsQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

ML Walsingham and sons. The old man over 80 still sits behind the till a couple of days a week while the family run the business. Again hardware, kitchen ware and garden accoutrements. This one in Wells next the sea.

Dominic

stimpsonslostson said:

Dominic said:

Lock and Company  Hatters of Piccadilly
 My friend Roger is a Director and his family founded the business 230 years ago....They still make black silk Toppers for Ascot and the like which would set you back about £4000 each !
They made hats for The Duke of Wellington , Atlee , Baldwin ,Churchill and many Royals but the best name in their order book was from the early 1970s ......Mr A. Chimp
Who was ,in fact, the chimpanzee from the old Tetley Tea Adverts 
less interesting major clients include a certain Mr D Beckham .

Is that the same shop that appears in the Kingsman movie? 
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/kingsman-the-secret-service/images/5/5f/Lock_&_Co._Hatters.png/revision/latest?cb=20171124222238

Yes..........they do a lot for films but it's quite an institution 

ChuckManual

Nitefly said:

FX_Munkee said:

D Byrne & Co in Clitheroe, don't get there very often unfortunately.

https://dbyrne-finewines.co.uk/

Good call!  And if you're in Clitheroe, you might as well go up towards the castle and visit :

http://www.cowmans.co.uk/

The best sausages in the world!

Thanks for the tip! I'm visiting Clitheroe this summer. I shall make a point of visiting Cowmans...

Axe_meister

Red light district Amsterdam

munckee

ChuckManual said:

Nitefly said:

FX_Munkee said:

D Byrne & Co in Clitheroe, don't get there very often unfortunately.

https://dbyrne-finewines.co.uk/

Good call!  And if you're in Clitheroe, you might as well go up towards the castle and visit :

http://www.cowmans.co.uk/

The best sausages in the world!

Thanks for the tip! I'm visiting Clitheroe this summer. I shall make a point of visiting Cowmans...

Sorry but no.  Phil's sausages in Lee-on-the-Solent has frequently won best UK sausages from his teeny little shop.  His hampshire herbies are the stuff of legend.  Also makes his own bacon.  No opening hours, opens when he wants and closes when he wants go home.  He makes my christmas stuffing and pigs in blankets which I collect every christmas eve.

Nitefly

munckee said:

ChuckManual said:

Nitefly said:

FX_Munkee said:

D Byrne & Co in Clitheroe, don't get there very often unfortunately.

https://dbyrne-finewines.co.uk/

Good call!  And if you're in Clitheroe, you might as well go up towards the castle and visit :

http://www.cowmans.co.uk/

The best sausages in the world!

Thanks for the tip! I'm visiting Clitheroe this summer. I shall make a point of visiting Cowmans...

Sorry but no.  Phil's sausages in Lee-on-the-Solent has frequently won best UK sausages from his teeny little shop.  His hampshire herbies are the stuff of legend.  Also makes his own bacon.  No opening hours, opens when he wants and closes when he wants go home.  He makes my christmas stuffing and pigs in blankets which I collect every christmas eve.

300 miles too far south!  And I bet he doesn't do pork and black pudding sausages, either!

DB1

cosmiccarrot said:

For me it has to be Jeffery West in manchester, they make some of the maddest shoes on the planet... of got a few of their 'plainer' shoes, quality is excellent. One day I'll get to their head office.

https://www.jeffery-west.co.uk/jefferywest/index.asp?page=manchester-43

That looks a superb shop. I'll have to visit! 

steven70

Back in the day, couple times a year we'd make the pilgrimage to HMV on Oxford Street. The thrill of browsing the racks of records, not knowing what you might find could not be beaten..a dedicated blues section, heavy metal back catalogues, the lot. Then the Central line to 'Music and Video Exchange', Notting Hill Gate, find another bunch of Hawkwind albums no one knew existed. 

These days, garden centres (for the smell) and a decent book store (becoming harder to find)- someone else mentioned Foyles, which is superb.

Axe_meister

These days it's hard to find a shop I enjoy visiting as there are so few specialist shops around as all the big chains have taken over with staff who do not have any training.
Guitar/HiFi and special interest shops targeting the minority are the last of a dying breed of shops and even they are being out priced by Amazon or being killed by high Street rents.
I used to love visiting tropical fish shops but there are very few around these days.

thecolourbox

There's a little social enterprise bread bakery near me in Stirchley called Loaf which makes the loveliest bread, bloomers and cobs. I go in there without fail if I'm in Stirchley.

Also on the same road, though it has been gone a while now, was an absolute barmpot of a shop called Pandora's Box. It was a junk shop essentially, their stock seemed to be focused around used wheelchairs, random items of 1940s kitchenware, pre-war clothes horses, and a revolving collection of what appeared to be utter crap old guitars, the Suze of which would make even Harry Seven weep. I was gutted when they closed down.

To go a bit more mainstream, I do enjoy a visit to either T2 or Whittards of Chelsea, love the thought of topping up my loose leaf tea provision

lasermonkey

I have to confess, I rarely visit shops any more these days. I just don't like being in crowded areas. That said, when I've been, I have enjoyed:
Coda
Trading Musician (Seattle)
Adnams shop in Southwold
Hannants
and very fond memories of Parrot Records in Cambridge. I spent a fortune in there!