My Childhood Highstreet

neiljc_2

scottishminnie wrote: »

Stakis Steakhouses - several in Glasgow many years ago - I remember thinking how I'd finally made it I was when I could afford to go there for dinner with some friends.


i know im going to sound like the four yorkshiremen from Monty Python but hey... it was a rare treat to be taken to the Galley in Dumbarton (stakis steakhouse) I remember as a small kid thinking how posh they were because you got a crusty french roll on a side plate:rolleyes:

oh and Im going to add MR Byrite - got my first suit, awful shiny grey one, for my brothers wedding in 1986

bottomsup

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Ratners jewellers!

I remember feeling very grown up when my dad bought me a necklace from there for my 10th birthday (I still have the Ratners box it came in!)

I used to work in Chelsea Girl as a Saturday job.

Does anyone remember Dickie Dirts? (used to sell jeans etc)


Also Spud u Like - used to love their jacket potatoes!

ailuro2

We don't have a LEeds BS, but we do have a Spud U like

Wm Lows, or Wullie Louws as most folk called it.

we had a Wryges on the end of Goldbergs - I had forgotten abuot that.

Henderson's the furniture store in the overgate - was later taken over by Queensway - now that was a national chain, I remember getting a really cheap coffee table from there when it went bust.:D

Anyone used to get the free bus to Asda with their Granny style shopping trolley?:p

cceg

Top Man

The high street clothing shop for trendy young men ( and my brother, who i dont remember to be very trendy! )

kt33uk

Some of these names bring back memories. :rotfl:

My 1st p/t job was in RS McColl
Visiting Pik n Save on a Saturday with my mum, aunty and half the street and all us kids playing with the trolleys.
Fine Fare when it was in the town centre, which then became Elmo then back to Fine Fare then moved out of town and soon became Gateway then Somerfield then closed down, was flattened and is now Lidl.
McLaughlin and Brown - bought my 1st washing machine from here
Graham & Morton (think this was local) - went to see Aneka here, remember her of Japanese boy fame. :rotfl:
Electronic Boutique - which then became Game. The first 'game' shop in our town

scottishminnie

Oh my - Graham and Morton's - there's a blast form the past (was that on King Street? - I remember a store with a fish pond and open plan dark wood staircase which had a good toy section, it could have been Graham and Morton's) and I couldn't remember what the Stirling dept store was that became Frasers but it was McLaughlin and Brown's.

From Stirling I also remember M and M's on Port Street where everything was dirt cheap and Hamilton's the tobacco shop along at the corner of the Craigs and Port Street and the shop shop on King Street where I was taken for school shoes, they had a fab rocking horse for you to play on (kind of made up for having to wear Start Rite shoes!)

jess1974

Does anybody else remember Leo's supermarkets, or did i imagine them, think they might have been Norfolk or Suffolk only.
Also BB Adams a sort of discount store selling everything, it was like an aladdins cave inside, oh and ipi dee the clothes shop......

oilit

yep leos - im sure they ended up being party of co-op?

Rumbelows
Radio rentals
international stores
liptons
western counties building society
tower records
general trading company
menzies
our price
madge mellers (that was a one off HUGE cake & coffee store in the town i grew up in)

and think how many independent fishmongers and butchers there were I remember a butcher called sharlands in the same town as the cake shop and my parents & i got invited round to their house for sunday lunch along with a few other customers - bloody great big house from what i remember with cook and cleaner - and that was in sleepy devon - gawd those were the days

The scary thing is in 20 years time our kids will amswer the same question with:

cancer charity shop
vodafone shop
o2 shop
help the aged charity shop
loads of estate agents
3 mobile phone shop
mcdonalds
coffee shops

everything else was out of town high street

luxor4t

Berni Inn was the height of dining sophistication (well, I was 16!).

My mother was scandalised when she heard we would go to the bar and have a Berni coffee (served in a wine glass with cream on top) without eating in the restaurant!

anguk

Geordie Jeans! :T

Everyone from the north-east who was a teenager in the 80's must have owned at least one pair of Geordie Jeans. Every time a new craze came out, pinstriped, stripe down the side, coloured turn-ups etc. we'd be there buying a new pair.

Also Robert Anthony for cheap jewellery, me & my friends would be in there every Saturday buying something with our pocket money, you could get a silver chain for a couple of pounds. I think my very first digital watch came from there!