Shops from your youth

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Too many to mention but I’ll fave a go.

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Cairo
Cottonfield
Strand
Life
McKenzie
Aspecto
Steel wheels
Hitsville USA
Discount records
Volume
Trax / Flying records
Kardba
 
Brough's the grocers, they had a travelling shop big as a bus used to come round the estates, could get anything you wanted delivered to the door. Think the co-op had one as well.
 
Had a walk towards Bar 808 from Aperitif last night and a few this used to be reminiscing moments, Curry’s, Index, Tucci, Chambers and Gossips, even the kebab shop opposite Chambers, then later walked past where Virgin and Geordie Jeans were.

Did Blanford Street used to have a different lay out?
 
joemcdokes said:
Had a walk towards Bar 808 from Aperitif last night and a few this used to be reminiscing moments, Curry’s, Index, Tucci, Chambers and Gossips, even the kebab shop opposite Chambers, then later walked past where Virgin and Geordie Jeans were.

Did Blanford Street used to have a different lay out?
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No just better quality shops, which applied to most of the town those days.
 
black cat in france said:
Brough's the grocers, they had a travelling shop big as a bus used to come round the estates, could get anything you wanted delivered to the door. Think the co-op had one as well.
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Me Mam worked in Brough's on High St West as a cleaner. She had a nasty accident with a bacon slicer which left her with a large scar on her arm.
 
Typhoonftm said:
Beau Clarks "surgical store" next to The Burton House. Where you could buy mucky books, vibrators and blow up dolls to your hearts content. :lol:
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There was a Beauclarkes opposite the Empire as well. And opposite that was an ironmongery shop (Strothers?) that was there for ages before becoming Maison D'Elegance which is now Westminster Bar. I don't think there was much call for elegance in Sunlun! At the bottom of the road was McCanns furniture shop, now Revolution, which had a great big American style neon arrow flashing down the side of the shop pointing at the entrance. On the left of McCanns was a small garage/filling station. Going up Low Row towards The Museum Vaults and on the other side of the road there was the long-demolished Pells and Nelson's auction rooms. My God how our city has changed.
Cheesy Feet said:
West One and Cassidy Clubman on Holmeside for the fashionistas round town..and it was the Durham Book Centre not Durham Book Shop..jeez..:rolleyes:
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I still have a little bottle of Patchuoli oil I bought there circa 1972!
 
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As well as "The Fish Bowl" there was another pet shop called something like The Aquaria, it was in a basement and sold snakes and spiders and all kinds of weird animals.
Isaac Hendersons Motorcycles.
Billy's Shoes. It was Billy Hughes' shoe shop.
Tennicks.
 
Scimmy said:
There was a Beauclarkes opposite the Empire as well. And opposite that was an ironmongery shop (Strothers?) that was there for ages before becoming Maison D'Elegance which is now Westminster Bar. I don't think there was much call for elegance in Sunlun! At the bottom of the road was McCanns furniture shop, now Revolution, which had a great big American style neon arrow flashing down the side of the shop pointing at the entrance. On the left of McCanns was a small garage/filling station. Going up Low Row towards The Museum Vaults and on the other side of the road there was the long-demolished Pells and Nelson's auction rooms. My God how our city has changed.


I still have a little bottle of Patchuoli oil I bought there circa 1972!
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The garage was the Theatre Garage. Tomasettis on the corner of Paley St. and Silksworth Row.
 
Sunderland Computer Centre
Red Radio Shop
K9 pet shop
Durham Book Center
Hills book shop
Volume
Athena
Binns
C&A
Carricks
Timpsons
Lewis Neesons

And from Murton...
Piolies cafe
Cutmores
Nicholsons
Hintons
Ogs
Liptons
VG
Stobies
Walkers
ET Rentals
 
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