Well known high street stores - Now defunct

randella

Also I stand corrected re. Wimpy - I thought they'd long gone.  I haven't seen one in years.

Nitefly

randella said:

Also I stand corrected re. Wimpy - I thought they'd long gone.  I haven't seen one in years.

The last Wimpy I was in was at the Johnstonebridge Services on the M74, about 3 years ago.

That was the day I took Our Maud to see a steam train at Galashiels - and they say the age of romance is dead! 

exocet

Nitefly said:

randella said:

Also I stand corrected re. Wimpy - I thought they'd long gone.  I haven't seen one in years.

The last Wimpy I was in was at the Johnstonebridge Services on the M74, about 3 years ago.

That was the day I took Our Maud to see a steam train at Galashiels - and they say the age of romance is dead! 

Long after the demise of Wimpy in the UK, they were trading in India. Not sure if that's still the case. India also had Dolcis (Shoes), they disappeared from UK Hight Street.

rocktron

Whittard.

They sold a variety of teas.

Nunogilberto

rocktron said:

Whittard.

They sold a variety of teas.

There's one in Cardiff...

StefB

Binns.

Texas Homecare.

Lunn Poly.

skunkwerx

Rover? 

I saw a C&A recently in Seville, Spain.. Surprised me it did. 

I remember Beatties, bought my Tamiya 2001 Subaru rc car from there back in the day. 

Are Milletts still around?

King85

We used to have a corner shop called Circle K about 25 years ago near me, went to Bali last year and they were everywhere.

C&A are still in Slovakia too as are T Mobile.

JerkMoans

King85 said:

We used to have a corner shop called Circle K about 25 years ago near me...

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K In San Dimas...

rlw

JerkMoans said:

Private Shop(s)

Used to be all over the place (particularly Luton, for some weird reason), now food for crows.

EXCEPT up and down the A1, which is infested with the things.  Are North/South travellers particularly kinky?  Crazed with lust for herbal Viagra and rubber fists?  Baffling.

Probably.

King85

JerkMoans said:

King85 said:

We used to have a corner shop called Circle K about 25 years ago near me...

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K In San Dimas...

   I didn't know that was the store in Bill and Ted

JerkMoans

King85 said:

JerkMoans said:

King85 said:

We used to have a corner shop called Circle K about 25 years ago near me...

Strange things are afoot at the Circle K In San Dimas...

   I didn't know that was the store in Bill and Ted

Every day's a school day on the Fretboard  

JerkMoans

skunkwerx said:

Are Milletts still around?

A spanking shiny new one just opened on Barnet High Street, so that's a big fat yes!

skunkwerx

JerkMoans said:

skunkwerx said:

Are Milletts still around?

A spanking shiny new one just opened on Barnet High Street, so that's a big fat yes!

Ah good to know. Used to be a couple round here but I think Blacks and Decathlon did them out of the area. Probably sports direct too..

the_jaffa

I’m pretty sure that Blacks and Millets are now the same. In fact, yes just checked; Blacks own the Millets chain

rlw

rocktron said:

Whittard.

They sold a variety of teas.

They still do...

rlw

Take 6

Ravel

Freeman Hardy & Willis

Chelsea Girl

Dolcis

Lord John

Jean Junction

hollywoodrox

Finefare
grandways 
Binns (house of Fraser )

is there still a Skills toy shop in Nottingham and was it related to the coach company?

i miss Tandy and their Archer,Realistic. Radio shack brands  and the diary where you could collect a free battery each month

john Menzies 

do NSS newsagents still exist . Whe I was a kid a lot of newsagents were part of a group called NSS with an orange sign 

The greater co operative store in a Nottingham with the big Art Deco staircase and lifts manned by people telling you what floor you were on etc.

VG  
Mace  although as long ago as 2004 there were still Mace stores in Scotland.

Keymarket was taken over by Somerfield I believe  which was also gateway 

I remember Liptons and dewhurst and laskys too as someone posted 

also remember getting my mum perfume from Richard shops and can totally recall advertising jingles . Mum always shopped in Chelsea girl 

do don miller bread shops still exist 

hollywoodrox

I can remember Boots selling ,records ,home computers , ghettoblasters,Walkmans  they even had a grinding shortwave top of the line radio in once with prope SSB reception.
you could get some decent records there too ,even the occasional special ones.

i remember Binns (house of Fraser) having records too and even reduced price coloured vinyl , I remember there being lots of UK subs ones , they also had chess computers and early video games .

exocet said:

EricTheWeary said:

I know I've posted this before but every time I go into a branch of Boots it's like being in somewhere that's about to close. It's owned by US company Walgreens so they may not want to hang onto it whilst profits plunge further and further.  

I could be talking out of my arse but I do find Boots to be an allegory for UK approach to industry. Years ago, Boots was much more than a High Street Chemists - it had a Pharmaceuticals research arm, they discovered and developed drugs e.g. Ibuprofen. Then they break it up in the name of shareholder value, loose control of the profitable / future business and are stuck with an ailing High Street / retail only model with no USP?

Axe_meister

MagicPigDetective said:

Three pages in and I’m the first to mention Tandy Electronics

See my reply earlier