When you could buy 10 mayfair for £3.15!!
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Woolworths 
Athena
Tammy girl
MK1 - we didn’t have one where I lived so was always happy when visiting elsewhere where there was one
Athena
Tammy girl
MK1 - we didn’t have one where I lived so was always happy when visiting elsewhere where there was one
Yes I remember my mum taking me to Adams kids. I also had some of their hangers in my wardrobe for ages!
I use to sit on the floor and eat all the sweets that fell from the pick n mixWoolworths
God I cannot believe the price of cigarettes nowadays. I’m sure when I was at school I’d pay £1.96 for 10 sovereign and if I was feeling fancy I’d get 20 B&H for like £4 or something. Bloody £11 or something now!
Always woolworths.
There was also this corner shop near my old high school. It's now a bathroom showroom but every time I walk past I think of all the times me and my friends used to steal boxes of 'fun snaps' and throw them at the floor all the way to the local shopping centre to wind up the guy who worked in the card shop. He was a total perv now I think about it but he was a complete novelty to us as he'd get off work at about 4 and buy us alcopops. Funny all the memories that come to mind when walking past a bloody bathroom showroom
There was also this corner shop near my old high school. It's now a bathroom showroom but every time I walk past I think of all the times me and my friends used to steal boxes of 'fun snaps' and throw them at the floor all the way to the local shopping centre to wind up the guy who worked in the card shop. He was a total perv now I think about it but he was a complete novelty to us as he'd get off work at about 4 and buy us alcopops. Funny all the memories that come to mind when walking past a bloody bathroom showroom
Woolworths, tammy girl, mark one, blockbuster and action station
Yes used to get school trousers from there they were this awful black stretchy material that used to go so shiny, also at the seam on the bum the white elastic used to come out ‘bum fluff’ everyone called it
Romford Market back in the 80s and early 90s when it was bloody massive and sold everything. Especially the stalls where it was all current season Top Shop and Miss Selfridge (and clearly fell off the back of a lorry...)
When I was a teenager me and my mum would sometimes go there shopping and then after for a pizza at Pizza Hut. We used to share the smallest pizza and a salad bowl
and I just remember feeling so grown up being there and not Mcds or Wimpy!
Snob was a favourite shop; also a few years later Pilot - I still have a feather boa trimmed lacy thing I bought from there in about 1996
When I was a teenager me and my mum would sometimes go there shopping and then after for a pizza at Pizza Hut. We used to share the smallest pizza and a salad bowl
and I just remember feeling so grown up being there and not Mcds or Wimpy! Snob was a favourite shop; also a few years later Pilot - I still have a feather boa trimmed lacy thing I bought from there in about 1996
I miss the Kitchen reject Shop from the 80's and 90's and also The Body Shop from the 80's and 90's (when you could take your empty shampoo and shower gel bottles and go and refill them inside the shop).
Another one I miss is Nectar (a shop similar to the Body Shop). I get quite nostalgic for BlockBuster dvd shop and wish it was still here so I could have a browse around at all the old film dvd's and buy popcorn and Ben and Jerry's at the same time.
I used to love Chelsea Girl and Tammy Girl as a teenager too
Another one I miss is Nectar (a shop similar to the Body Shop). I get quite nostalgic for BlockBuster dvd shop and wish it was still here so I could have a browse around at all the old film dvd's and buy popcorn and Ben and Jerry's at the same time.
I used to love Chelsea Girl and Tammy Girl as a teenager too
When I was 14 ( back in 1988) before the six week break at school we was allowed a day to either go Alton towers or watch videos in school.
I watched videos in school.
I never forget the idiot teacher who thought it was a good idea to put Hellraiser on!!!
I still can see some of the film in detail and it gets me angry why a teacher would think this was a good idea..the teacher fast forward the sexual scenes (with a grin on his face) but we watched the start to about half hour or more into the film as luckily the lunch bell went and we could go.
Bloody horrible, I remember some of that creepy film from that day.
One girl screamed at one scene.
Other one was Nightmare on Elm Street by another teacher in another room.
Keeping on topic..
Nostalgic shops for me..
Woolworths
C&A
Anthea
Oasis
I don't know if the last two was just Birmingham based or if Oasis is still there.
My brother who is near my age remember an " outdoor" where it's like a normal small shop but had a beer pump on the counter that they full for you to have a beer to take home, I guess you brought your own container.
I remember the outdoor but not when it had a beer pump.
I do remember seeing beer barrels been rolled down into the cellar from outside.
PS I'm only on the first few posts so I look forward to catching up on here
I’m just gonna leave this here.....
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Can’t believe Rapid has gone, that Was such a bril shop a bit like an Aladdin's cave! Last time I was up in Liverpool it had moved near the M&S. How sad. It wassad enough when Lewis’s closed, that was a beautiful shop to walk around!Woolworths. I used to love going to our local to spend my pocket money on toys and books with my nan and grandad. They had the best sales on Boxing Day.
Also C&A and Tammy Girl when I was a teenager
There's still a TJ Hughes here! I go sometimes for chips and gravy in their little cafe when I'm out shopping (I hate McDonalds and similar and love gravy so, erm
Quiggins too, my mum used to take me there, maybe you know it's still here but it's moved (it's not quite the same now but still...!)
Lewis's in Liverpool was a great place. It's so sad it closed down. I also remember Owen Owen and George Henry Lee's (I believe the latter is now part of John Lewis?) Rapid Hardware has recently closed which is terrible, Liverpool has lost a lot of historical well known companies now that I think of it.
Tammy Girl was ace. I’d run up thestairs to Tammy and my mum would shop down stairs in Etam.
loved Bay and Select (such horrible clothes looking back though lol!) Morgan clothing as wel
I’m a midlands girl so Not sure if it’s a midlands shop but the old Coop department stores and Alders! Spent many a Christmas in both with my mum frantically shopping !
Yes, I loved it!
We used to have tammy in the town where I live, it was above an etam shop I think...? Used to buy all sorts from there especially when I went through my many phases. Particurlary remember bright pink trousers with loads of strips of pink fabric coming off them and baggy flared jeans with pink chains... dear godThat was such a cool shop. I always used to make sure I was wearing my tammy pants for p.e
And them t shirts with different coloured sleeves to the body. Ours used to be above an adult clothes shop, but cant remeber what it was called.
Jane norman for the school bag and the carrier bag for your p.e kit
Ahaha I had forgot about the Jane Norman bags for PE think I had a blue and a lemon coloured one - buying the cheapest thing in the shop to get them haha!!
Yep I had a birthday party in MD's, don't think it would have quite the same effect these days...!Did anyone else have McDonalds birthday parties???? Like in the McDonald’s restaurants and just sectioned off with chairs
Oh you have just reminded me I had a satsusma lip oil I think it was like a lip gloss but with a roller ball type top and it was in a small glass bottle. I took it to middle school and dropped it in the toilets in my first year. The place stunk of it and I never owned up to it... even when I left 4 years it still has a faint orange smell in those particular toilets
I did the same, around the same age - went in with my 'boyfriend' at the time thinking we were so cool. Must have looked like right d*cks haha! Think I bought a lovely pink totally not age appropriate numberLa Senza - I bought my first ‘grown up’ bra there with Christmas money I must of been about 14 it was a push up, purple with the cartoon ‘Little Miss Naughty’ embroidered on, in the first size I picked up as had no clue on sizes and too shy to ask, all bought without my Mums knowledge and kept it hidden Incase she found it
Yes that's was where it was. Used to love MCd party too. Used to be upstairs in out McdoanldsWe used to have tammy in the town where I live, it was above an etam shop I think...? Used to buy all sorts from there especially when I went through my many phases. Particurlary remember bright pink trousers with loads of strips of pink fabric coming off them and baggy flared jeans with pink chains... dear god
Ahaha I had forgot about the Jane Norman bags for PE think I had a blue and a lemon coloured one - buying the cheapest thing in the shop to get them haha!!
Yep I had a birthday party in MD's, don't think it would have quite the same effect these days...!
On a Saturday afternoon it was mental up there Yep - I have my daughters first baby clothes from there which were kept and handed down to the younger two but think they closed down not long after my eldest was born
xUsed to love our co op. Used to get kicked out every Saturday for jumping on the beds
I remember etam and Tammy girl.. One memory that sticks in my mind, I must have been around 11-12 yrs old back in early 2000s and purchasing a pink velour tracksuit with my birthday money.. worrying that I spent too much on clothes, it must have cost me like £20-25