My Childhood Highstreet

kr15snw

I think were dated down here.

We still have a Mccolls newsagents, an Athena AND a shoe fayre!

Mrs_Ryan

There are McColls still all over the place.... they're part of the TM Retail (Forbuoys etc) group... We have a Shoe Fayre here in Leicester as well.... think we've got the head office down here!!

pumpkin25uk

loved this thread! our price records, saxone, and presto(my nan always shopped there) what about jonathan james shoe shop and olympic sports.
in southend we still have good old wimpy, theres nothing like having a knife and fork with your burger!
kwik save and index catalogue!
i used to love snob and chelsea girl.
going off the subject slightly who remembers united bars yum and walkers snaps.

jackieb

I remember when Fine Fare was on our main street. Yellow label was their own brand and there was no worse insult at school for someone to say that your mam bought yellow label. :rotfl:
From what I remember, the yellow label tins were usually bashed and sometimes rusty. Maybe that was just our Fine Fare though!

toinfinityandbeyond

My high street had Key Markets (food still in boxes-no shelves either)
7-11 (remember slurpees???)
Anglia building society
and a fine fare i think which off subject used to sell fish n chips-they were salty biscuit shapes-i loved these....does anyone remember who made them and if anywhere sell them still???

jackieb

toinfinityandbeyond wrote: »

and a fine fare i think which off subject used to sell fish n chips-they were salty biscuit shapes-i loved these....does anyone remember who made them and if anywhere sell them still???

I remember them. I used to lick them before eating them. And they were in a fake newspaper bag. I think Burton's used to make them.

kr15snw

Index! Forgot about them, remember thinking they could be bigger than Argos. Hah, that worked!

clogau

Showing my age now but every Saturday spent in Chelsea girl

purplebutterfly

lynzpower wrote: »

those were the days, when prices used to be put on with a sticker gun- that used to fascinate me, and when my parents bought a shop, the previous owners left a sticker gun in the back- happy days as a 10 year old

When you used to walk round Safeway and hear the click click click of the pricing guns and if ever one was left unattended, you had to fight the desire to sneak over to it and have a quick go


Or was I just a very sad child? :rotfl:

Tarry

I remember Index