A former place in your town you still haven't gotten over closing?

[OneUmberJoker]

Woolworths

I used to work in Sadler Gate in the 90s and would be in there browsing most days!

C&A. I was staggered to find a 5 floor C&A in Berlin, it was a trip to feel nostalgic in without a doubt. It was about 20 years ago.

An alternative clothing and accessories shop, completely independent, that sold a fabulous range of goth and indie clothing and silver jewellery, and a little second hand bookshop in the middle of Oxford - I think it was actually called the Little Oxford Bookshop - that was stacked floor to ceiling with second hand books, manuscripts and sheet music. The owner never took any ephemera out of the books so you'd often find photos, letters, shopping lists, even old banknotes tucked between the pages. The place was overseen by a chain smoking, wizened gnome of a bloke who sat in a little enclosed booth in the middle of the shop.

I worked there in the summer of 1989 as a student, fun times

Used to love going down SadlerGate on a Saturday night.

Jane Norman

The 90s in Sadler Gate were the best!

Bay Trading Co

Body Shop - the original version that smelled amazing and didn’t cost the earth to buy anything!

Glasnost restaurant in Bristol, it was fabulous

I always shop in C&A when we visit Belgium! Most recently was late August this year.

The bead shop was close to the hologram shop, but I can't remembrr if they were there at the same time.

I loved Chaps on Green Street. Between that and Past Times a couple of doors away I had most presents covered!

Used to spend hours and hours with the Past Times catalogue. Green street had the best shops.

Neal Street East - not my town but essential stop when visiting London
Past Times
Athena
Beads Galore (bead shop in my town)
Vagabonds (90s coffee shop with sofas, live music, massive cups and bagels, allowing us to pretend we were in Friends or So I Married An Axe Murderer)

Woolworths and recently Wilkinson's.....my two favourite stores

Oh yes, loved neal street east. Near my fave bead shop. I think my parents bought most of our stocking fillers from there for years. It was rather magical.

On a similar theme, the Corn Exchange in Manchester, pre IRA bomb. It was all lovely hippie and alternative stalls, a bit like more of Afflecks Palace but a little less edgy. Loved it. It’s all high end retailers and eateries after they had to spend all the money restoring it after the bomb.

Debenhams, it's left a giant hole in my high st that will never be filled unfortunately.
Also missing Woolworths, Wilkinson's and hmv.

The Troubador!

Woolies

Marks and Spencer. Small seaside town. M&S was the "destination" store, nothing bigger. The whole town centre is now mostly derelict as most of the other shops have closed down due to the loss of trade from people who only came for the M&S. Classic example of how a single large shop can drive customers to an entire town centre.

Thank you!

Not my home but 2 former visitor attractions in Ireland, the Knight Ride in Carrickfergus and Dublin Viking Adventure. DC found the latter a bit overwhelming and started crying so I had to take them out. Went back a couple of years later and it had closed so never got to go on it. I think we went on the knight ride before DC were old enough so were looking forward to taking them but when we went back, it too had closed.

Not in my town but in my country, both Iceland and Argos have stopped operating in Ireland. Not glam but useful. And Woolworths of course.

Wallis, it was reasonable, not too expensive and the clothes made me look fairly good.

Woolworths - where else do you buy everything?

Ahhh, this has jogged an old memory....not a place but trees. Right outside the bus stop in the grounds of some fairly decent (ie not run down) low level housing there was the most stunning willow tree. It was mature, and absolutely glorious. It was one of the first trees that would start to fuzz up with green in the spring. It was right opposite my regular bus stop, and I used to walk past it often every week. It was on the edge of the children's playground for the housing.
One day I arrived home and it was - gone. Cut down, gone gone gone....
I was stricken. Apparently the street gossip was that it was too close to the playground and its delicious trailing foliage (which I would have definitely played in as a kid) was a blind spot for creeps whatever. I do not know if that was the actual reason. It was as if I had lost an old friend. I still feel that pang when I think of it, many many years on.
The second was an absolutely deliriously beautiful spring flowering pink cherry. It had such a big spread and was a cloud of blossom when it shook out its blooms in early spring. It made my heart sing every time I turned the corner. I always remembered how I loved sitting in our flowering cherry when I was little, also helpfully easy to climb.
Yep, one day I trotted off and......it was no more. It was in the corner by a wall of what may have been private flats, I don't know if the council took it down or the residents.
Another tree grieving episode followed. I can still see them in my mind's / heart's eye.💔