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Post by spunkbubble on Jul 25, 2011 19:28:03 GMT
Sneaky culture was a brilliant shop.
Used to go into the old stanleys every week after a night out just to get free cheese and ham toasties.
Slightly off topic, can anyone remember the old Normid in Talke? Always rember going there every weekend, getting an iced cream with that pink sherbert stuff on, and spend hours playing on their nintendo until my parents finished shopping. Better than that Freeport shit that's there now!!
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Post by toddyssilkyskills on Jul 25, 2011 20:00:38 GMT
not a shop but can remember when the fountain square had an actual fountain in it.
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Post by toddyssilkyskills on Jul 25, 2011 20:02:06 GMT
Sneaky culture was a brilliant shop. Used to go into the old stanleys every week after a night out just to get free cheese and ham toasties. Slightly off topic, can anyone remember the old Normid in Talke? Always rember going there every weekend, getting an iced cream with that pink sherbert stuff on, and spend hours playing on their nintendo until my parents finished shopping. Better than that Freeport shit that's there now!! ;D I used to love normid in talke as a kid, I don't even know why, probably because it had a big shopping grocerie area then the other half was loads of other stuff.
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Post by pretzel on Jul 25, 2011 20:15:26 GMT
SMC
Haydens
Graduate Records
Sherwins
Woolies
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Post by Shut Yer Pus on Jul 25, 2011 21:41:43 GMT
What a great thread.
What about Bratt and Dykes, about 4 floors of stuff, mostly boring until you get to the top floor, loads of Star Wars stuff all over the place.
Partners and Webberleys, classic school pencil case shopping.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2011 21:47:18 GMT
Stolen From Ivor - Joe Bloggs Jeans a-go-go Fantasy World - Smiths t-shirts and posters, decent vinyl upstairs & downstairs - frib oil and fucking weirdos Dirty Graham's Cafe on the Bus Station - errr...dirty Top Q - cheap Leather / Pleatherwear - 'Asda price!!' Mike Lloyd - good/obscure vinyl - bloody Valeite!!
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Post by Shut Yer Pus on Jul 25, 2011 21:49:53 GMT
Gwat Shoppe ! WHAT EVERYONE WANTS ! on the road into Hanley by the first bus stop after the bus station, what a load of kak.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2011 21:54:03 GMT
Gwat Shoppe ! WHAT EVERYONE WANTS ! on the road into Hanley by the first bus stop after the bus station, what a load of kak. That shop was wank!!We used to go in there and try stuff on for a pisstake when we were young un's. It was basically tat - cardigans £2.00 etc - tripe.
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Post by toddyssilkyskills on Jul 25, 2011 22:07:31 GMT
rowfers was opposite the old stoke shop in hanley
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2011 22:08:18 GMT
Is Discs and Disks still going down in the market? Bought a few Playstation 1 games and traded a few in at that badboy
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Post by toddyssilkyskills on Jul 25, 2011 22:09:11 GMT
Video World on Piccadilly in Hanley used to have a great arcade for young uns upstairs, spent many an hour in there thrashing the big computer screen
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Post by exeterstokie on Jul 25, 2011 22:18:39 GMT
video 80 the first video shop in stoke on trent
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Post by darksideofthemoon on Jul 25, 2011 22:43:41 GMT
Great thread......brings back SO many memories......I remember The Place (disco) and Buck's Jewellers (I dated Caroline Buck once)......can't recall where I used to get my Ben Sherman shirts from...... Please note - I emigrated to Oz in 1971 so my memories are somewhat hazy!!
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jul 26, 2011 9:36:32 GMT
What a great thread. What about Bratt and Dykes, about 4 floors of stuff, mostly boring until you get to the top floor, loads of Star Wars stuff all over the place. Partners and Webberleys, classic school pencil case shopping. Last time I was up Hanley duck Webberlys was still going strong.
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Post by tazi on Jul 26, 2011 10:28:32 GMT
Never remembered that some of these shops existed but after reading about them i do remember them now.
Anyone remember the old market 'did it used to be where weatherspoons is now or close by there?'....
Remember always having a sandwich and a drink on a Saturday afternoon in one of those square rooms.....
Then there was brewbakers but it's better to go even further back in time than that....
Derricots chip shop close to where the side entrance to the potteries shopping centre is now used to jam packed on a Saturdays....Lovely chippy that was, that's if there was room to sit in there....
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Post by lordeffinghamhunt on Jul 26, 2011 11:24:23 GMT
C&A...... Good lord that takes me back.... My Mrs as C&A written on her skidders so that she doesnt put them on back to front
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Post by lordeffinghamhunt on Jul 26, 2011 11:25:02 GMT
Lyptons and Crazycutts. Hammonds the fishmungers
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Post by swampySCFC on Jul 26, 2011 12:33:25 GMT
The condom shop opposite the ABC cine bowl ;D Chawners where people got their parallells from Lewis's deli, where you could get proper cheesecake and not the slop you get nowadays Dont forget Tonics
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2011 15:35:15 GMT
The green shield stamp shop by where the amusement arcade is opposite the bus station was a good un......
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Post by swampySCFC on Jul 26, 2011 15:43:33 GMT
The green shield stamp shop by where the amusement arcade is opposite the bus station was a good un...... Im sure there was a competitor offering pink stamps too. Lewis's food counter was a good un.
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Post by katjam7 on Jul 26, 2011 15:55:43 GMT
RIP RAP.........next to goldsmiths...........
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Post by str8outtahampton on Jul 26, 2011 15:58:05 GMT
I can't see Huntbach's on here. It looked anachronistic in 1969 - a warren of corridors and split levels and staircases - surely it's not still there?
I knew a Saturday girl in Webberley's. She told me a woman had come in one day and asked for 3 feet 6 of books (to fill a new book-shelf). Sounds dubious, but the story was a good one at the time.
And in the Lewis's car park I am certain (in the late 60s) there were still one or two crush barriers from the terracing when Vale played there before they moved up to Burslem. Is that possible?
Hayden's - "Hayden's Have It". That was their extremely snappy strapline, I think.
SMC was in that strange little arcade. We used to call it Small Men's Cocks. For no reason whatsoever. Other than it made us laugh in a Beavis and Butthead sort of a way.
There used to be an excellent record shop where I used to spend many a happy hour. Run by an old hippy. Can't remember the name, but about 50 yds from where Dale's sports would have been
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Post by davebuck on Jul 26, 2011 16:06:51 GMT
STOLEN FROM IVOR !!!!! my ex wife was manager there ! lol
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jul 26, 2011 16:15:19 GMT
Anyone remember the old market 'did it used to be where weatherspoons is now or close by there?'.... Remember always having a sandwich and a drink on a Saturday afternoon in one of those square rooms..... There were two indoor markets tazi. One where, as you say, where Weatherspoons is. This was fish/meat & fruit/veg. The other one was a two storey market where Potteries Centre is now. This sold usual market merchhadise and I think the basement of the Potteries Centre was the original basement of the old market. More useless information is that Percy St used to be the main bus terminal in Hanley before the bus station was built.
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Post by kevan45 on Jul 26, 2011 17:24:58 GMT
Lotus Records - quality! Apart from the dodgy ***t who tried to rip me off just cos I was 14 - me dad sorted that out!!!
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Post by trickydicky73 on Jul 26, 2011 17:27:41 GMT
Joke shop at the top of Hope Street. The itching powder was brutal. It was called Magitrix , I think.
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Post by trickydicky73 on Jul 26, 2011 17:30:06 GMT
What about Chelsea Girl and Geordie Jeans ? We'll never see their like again !
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Post by happylarry on Jul 26, 2011 22:31:45 GMT
Bloody hell green shield stamp shop - good call, I thought I was old, glad to see there are some more crinklies here too. Sherwins is the shop I always remember, downstairs where the record section was, listening to Motown on the headphones, the smell of vinyl, spent many a happy Sat'dy in there . Festival Time - San Remo Strings sublime...... HL
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Post by kbillyh on Jul 26, 2011 23:04:49 GMT
Dreadhead ahem ...."coffee" shop on Hope Street.
How the fuck did that stay open for as long as it did?
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Post by JoeinOz on Jul 26, 2011 23:39:11 GMT
Burtons
Is Jessops still there?
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