My Childhood Highstreet

jess1974

penguinlegs wrote: »

No, sorry, I meant Norwich. I can remember the International in Thetford, used to go in there with my grandparents on the way to visit aunts and uncles (I think! memory is a bit hazy!)

Oh ok, i think BB Adams was probably a Norfolk chain, its good to know someone else remembers them though.....

jackieb

jess1974 wrote: »

Oh my god, i'd completely forgotten that one, i used to live in Cambridge in the early nineties, and everyone was wearing those jumpers....

And Paco! I had quite a few Paco stuff.

kiddy_guy

Just to confirm Hawkshead are still trading, and Tammy Girl was taken by BHS.

penguinlegs

Just remembered Mr Byrite - sold jeans and big baggy lairy coloured (it was the 80s) shirts and t shirts. Also Weigh and Save. Had huge tubs of food that you scooped out yourself Used to get to the till with three times the amount of chocolate raisins than I thought I had. Lovely smells in there. Pick and mix sweets in the same aisle as spices and curry powder and some smart alec would put the chilli powder scoop back in the sherbert.

thepenniescount

billysmum wrote: »

does anyone remember pollards

I remember Pollards selling clothes in wooden draws and shelves!!!!

wooohooo

2007.I remenber buying my 1st pair of roller skates there in the early 1980's
ROOPA, the y sold loads of jeans

MACKROSS or something like that,it was a department store

Princess_Coupon

penguinlegs wrote: »

Just remembered Mr Byrite - sold jeans and big baggy lairy coloured (it was the 80s) shirts and t shirts. Also Weigh and Save. Had huge tubs of food that you scooped out yourself Used to get to the till with three times the amount of chocolate raisins than I thought I had. Lovely smells in there. Pick and mix sweets in the same aisle as spices and curry powder and some smart alec would put the chilli powder scoop back in the sherbert.

Yes I remember the weigh and save my mam wouldn't shop there she said kids with grubby hands probably messed about in the containers when no-one was looking:eek:

TravellingAbuela

Dash are still trading too and not a bat-wing sweater in sight!! In fact last Summer they had the nicest range I have ever seen in there.

mintymoneysaver

I remember Jumpers as they had a shop in Newport , Isle of Wight until about two summers ago!

whitty999

i was going to say Bejams but i think they changed the name to Iceland
reading this worried me as so many are shutting down,i think its sad