Your favourite shops as a child?

[JoeyBartonHanson]

I would say
Blockbusters and the local corner shop to get sweets

Partners for the stationery!

I liked Woolworths for the pic n mix

Past Times for the olde worlde stuff.

Thomas Cook for looking at the holiday brochures

Woolworths 😃 it had everything you could possibly ever want! 😂 and ‘Athena’ where everyone went to buy that poster of the half naked bloke holding a baby 😍😂

Does anyone remember ‘James the Second’? I seemed to have gone every weekend to the one at Merry Hill shopping centre in Dudley with my parents. It sold what I would today call tat. My parents collected little cat figurines from there and I thought it was so sophisticated. Same with The Pier.

Woolworths, I still miss it.

Woolworths,i still miss it too,they should bring it back to the highstreet.

Woolworths definitely!

Body Shop when they had the perfume carousel. Fond memories of being 16 and having a perfume right in there and getting chucked out.

We had lots f independent shops n the high street when I was growing up so the names won't mean anything to most people. There was a toy shop when I was tiny that was floor to ceiling shelving and cabinets full of dolls and games etc which was like a wonderful dream to me! Didn't go in often. The assistants used to get stuff down for you.

When I was a bit older I liked the shop that sold American clothing and the one that sold hippy stuff . I was desperate to look adult at 11/12 in the late 70s.

Then later on it was Our Price record shop!

Schofield's in Leeds. Proper, smart, classy department store. John Lewis ? Harvey Nichols ? Forget it. Schofield's, on The Headrow, was where it was at. Shame HOF got hold of them.

Bay Trading Company as a teen! I thought I was so cool...

Tammy Girl!

Woolworths for the pick and mix

We had a Co-Op department store. Four floors plus basement of all kinds of stuff. There was a proper Santa's grotto every Christmas too. It was always exciting when we went there.

Surely Wilko's is the new Woolworths!

Woolworths and Merretts

C & A!!!
And Tammy Girl

We used to visit a fabric and haberdashery shop that had a pneumatic cashier system, using canisters and tubes to whizz your cash payment to the central cash office. It was like living science fiction when I was six!

Then there was the excitement of new buying shoes, and being able to see the bones of your feet inside the glowing green X-ray machine! Wonderful...until they were banned!

MK1
Adams
Dolcis
Tammy Girl - especially for miners make up and t shirts ... still have a very old bracelet upstairs from Tammy that I’ve never chucked out for some reason !
Woolies/Woolworths

Woolworths
Tammy Girl
An independent department store called Russel & Dorrell that had a great toy department and Santa's grotto.
Co-Op department store
The Gadget Shop
Athena

And I know the Body Shop is still around but I used to love the Dewberry fragrance they did in the 90's. Also White Musk but I think that's made a comeback?

Oh, and Dolcis. The only shop I could get shoes in a size 9.

Barrett's
C&A
Adams - more so now I have a child. I LOVED their clothes
Woolworths
Alders
Tammy Girl

I also miss BHS

I loved Chelsea Girl as a young teen - it seemed so fashionable and grown up

As a new uni student I came across The Reject Shop and loved it for decorative odds and sods for my room

Athena and Blockbusters.

The local cash and carry - building igloos out of the 10kg slabs of cheddar in the chilled room. DS now builds forts using packs of loo roll

We had a local shop called ‘weigh and pay’. It was full of bins of spices, cereals, nuts and other random bits. Also dog food and broken biscuits.
I loved having a wonder around in there. They did these amazing lemon or strawberry lollies that were chewy and fruity but with holes in like they had bicarbonate in. They were the size of ice lollies but sweets and I have never found them anywhere else.
Really want one now