Retai/Food outlets we miss

[Conrad]

The c ock loft in Hanley market, Chawners in Hope St.

[Tone]

Hanley: Boyce Adams for a posh tea, the Wimpy Bar for frothy coffee, fresh fish shop opposite the old Post office, Barry's furniture shop, Sherwins, Chatfields music shop, Lewis's food hall, the jewellers opposite the Gaumont (aka Regent Theatre) where they sold Omega watches.

 

Burslem: Bews, Alcocks, the Maypole, Leicester's chemists.

[Birches Head Fred]

Woodside Café Rudyard.

[paulvaliant]

The mobile chip van on Norton estate. :D

 

The Sperling pub with the tuck shop to the side of it.

 

giannasi ice cream van.

 

Bourne sports in Burslem. I went on the day it was opened by Steve McMahon.

 

Clothes shop in Burslem where I used to get my Ben Sherman shirts from in the mid 90's!

[Santa]

I miss the fountain/wishing well next to Partners when the Potteries Centre first opened. By what's now the entrance to Lewis's.

 

It's just stairs now.

[valiant1980]

Tipplers in porthill, my word used to go up with a bottle to fill with brandy I think.

[Memphis]

Athena in the Potteries centre.

 

I always longed for that tennis player with her a rse out poster.

[Trentham Lakes Valiant]

Lewis' Food Court. 2oz of cashews and a Rum Baba.

[geosname]

What was the name of the chippy by the entrance to the general market in hanley.... grocotts?... was the seating area upstairs?... or am I confusing it with another establishment?

 

The wrights pie shop at the top of bucknall new road.

[bookworm]

What was the name of the chippy by the entrance to the general market in hanley.... grocotts?... was the seating area upstairs?... or am I confusing it with another establishment?

 

The wrights pie shop at the top of bucknall new road.

 

grocotts your right geo, fish and chips upstairs what a meal,more like whale and chips, hanley's gone to the dogs.

[mr.hobblesworth]

I used to love Fantasy World. Loads of us at school used to be in to Dungeons & Dragons (and that was just the teachers etc...) and we used to be able to get all the weird 20/4/ 8/ 849248 sided die from there. Plus, if you looked hard enough, there'd usually be some photo of an actress with 'em flopped out in some magazine. Bazaar was also good if you were a 14 year old desperate for a glimpse of nipple.

 

On a more cerebral note, the 2nd hand book shop on Hope Street was a lovely shop. (On the flip, has anyone, ever, mourned the passing of Booklands?)

 

Also, in the 80s, Newcastle used to have loads of 'alternative culture' shops. They were called things like Grapevine or Rainbow and sold patchouli oil and tie dye and Nancy Friday books. There was also that brilliant second hand clothes shop on the way up to Ritzys. They sold some amazing clothes, I really wish I could go back there now and buy some of the lovely thick overcoats they used to sell.

[Conrad]

grocotts your right geo, fish and chips upstairs what a meal,more like whale and chips, hanley's gone to the dogs.

 

I thought the chippy was Derricots.

[Bycarsbill]

What about Lewis's Dept store and their father Christmas arrivals/grotto and toy department--great memories for me!

[geosname]

ROSINA WARDS?..... pawn shop and the leather shop further up.. hope street?

[geosname]

coopers gun/tackle shop down from the gaumont... and burtons tackle shop by the grand hotel