My Childhood Highstreet

SweetPea73

Did anyone mention 'OUR PRICE ' Records??

billysmum

does anyone remember pollards

mickeypops

When I was a kid in Corby (the 60s) I remember two supermarkets facing each other on Corporation Street - Fine Fare and Maypole (I think.)

I also recall (at different times over the years) MacFisheries, Hepworths, Timothy Whilte, Fosters, Dewhirst the butcher, Presto supermarket - later Leo I think, Contessa, Rumbelows, Littlewoods & Index, Macmarket - later Solo I think - lots of shoe shops that have come and gone, What Everyone Wants, Select, HMV, Our Price, Menzies, lots of banks and Building Societies who've been taken over - notably the Market Harborough BS, Allens the baker, Sketchley dry cleaners, Granada TV rental.

And of course Woolworths.

I'm sure there's loads I've forgotten!

kt33uk

scottishminnie wrote: »

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!)

Oh forgot about M&Ms - think this was our generations 99p shop. My mum went there all the time for her cleaning stuff and we always got a sweetie as they were placed right on the way to the checkouts. Twas sad when it closed.

Yes Graham and Mortons took up quite a bit of space in King Street.

Arnotts/Frasers (I think) which was a massive store over the road from the court in Stirling. Remember going there with my mum for stuff.

Princess_Coupon

anguk wrote: »

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!

I was just about to say Geordie Jeans, but I had forgotten Robert Anthony were they just North East? ours was replaced by Half Price Jewelers, have HPJ gone too? or is there still 1 in the Metrocentre?

Princess_Coupon

Princess_Coupon wrote: »

I was just about to say Geordie Jeans, but I had forgotten Robert Anthony were they just North East? ours was replaced by Half Price Jewelers, have HPJ gone too? or is there still 1 in the Metrocentre?

Oh! I remember blowing all my savings on an outfit in Geordie Jeans when I was an extra on Byker Grove!! and if you'd blinked you'd have missed me.

catmandomoney

SweetPea73 wrote: »

Did anyone mention 'OUR PRICE ' Records??

I'd forgotten about Our Price until I saw it on the new retro Virgin Airlines advert.

What a great thread !! - I don't know about anyone else but I'm feeling old all of a sudden.

anguk

Princess_Coupon wrote: »

Oh! I remember blowing all my savings on an outfit in Geordie Jeans when I was an extra on Byker Grove!! and if you'd blinked you'd have missed me.

Small world, my son was an extra on Byker Grove about 8 years ago, we ended up videoing the entire series just so we'd captured the odd shot of him! We renamed the show "Spot The Dan"!

I've just had a google and apparently the last Geordie Jeans shop closed in 2004, I thought they'd gone long before that.

Tarry

Our Budgens is now a Jempsons/Budgens, and bloomin' expensive too!

zippybungle

Presto, Gateway, Safeway......