Shops and Cafes no longer here.

My mother used to work at the Kardomah in Birmingham. When they were making sandwiches they were told to scrape the mould off yesterday's bread!

Team too, in a London outer borough. I could get work trousers for £8 and they lasted.

Pizzaland.
BHS. Got my towels and cardies there.
A local cafe with real coffee, where I practically lived up to about 2005.

I remember going to the Wimpy Bar in Bradford. We could get a soup (tomato or brown windsor), a cheese burger and chips + vanilla ice cream to follow, all for our 3/- luncheon vouchers.

Has anyone mentioned that C&A was nicknamed Coats & Ats?

Do you mean On the Eighth Day? I believe it is still there.

Biba in Kensington Church Street, Kensington Market in Kensington High Street, Miss Selfridge in Oxford Street.

I worked a holiday job in Woolworths;
I remember being enchanted by the Kardomah in Chester when I went there to college.
When I was a child I remember the grocery shops where bacon was sliced for you on a machine as you wanted it, butter was taken from a large container, weighed and shaped according to your requirements, tea was served from a sack and weighed accordingly as were many other items. These shops smelled wonderful .
More recently I do also miss Richards and Principles, and of course all the other department stores that have disappeared.

The local High Street had Goodbans Department store with little canisters of rolled up paper cash sucked through the tube from cash desk to the top floor. It had Downs grocery store with
sawdust on the floor , where Mum talked through her list to the serving staff who’d been there for ever. She then shared a pot of tea in Lyon’s with her friends before heading home in time to take in the box from the van . It was a magic we could all share in the school holiday , and best of all
we were allowed to unwrap the fresh Downs delivery and store it away .

Many of my childhood memories have been mentioned - Chiesemans in Lewisham, Allders, Kennards and Grants in Croydon and the coffee importers in Bromley. Bromley also had Medhursts, which became Allders (now Primark). Brixton had Bon Marche and Sydenham had Cobbs,
We went to Selfridges to see Father Christmas. Other central stores were Peter Jones at Sloane Square, John Lewis at Oxford Circus, Barkers and Derry & Toms in Kensington,

Many of these trips were to buy dress material and haberdashery.

Golden Egg was a restaurant chain, a bit like Wimpy, Later, we went to Berni steak house. We still have Wimpy locally.

What you have missed Mojak

There was a coffee house in Bromley in the mid 50s which roasted their coffee beans and there was that wonderful smell wafting out. I was 5 and probably if I ever had coffee it would have been Camp.

Ally27

Gosh yes, Liverpools amazing shops. Owen Owens, George Henry Lees, my mums favourite, Hendersons, Blacklers, Littlewoods C&As , BHS,all the ladies shops on Bold St. I could go on. What treat to go for the day. Now..... I couldn't be bothered it's mostly tat.

Ally27 do you remember the Chanticleer Chinese Restaurant? in Tarleton Street in the sixties? it was
always very busy at lunchtime,
Mum would take us in there after buying us school shoes
in JHL.
As adults we favoured the Bluecoat Chambers coffee shop.
I thought these days would last forever, not that my past
would be so arbitrarily dismantled

No idea what you are talkong about?? Never heard of these places

David Greigs in Bromley was another one. Before the big supermarkets came. I would have been about 4 or 5 years old. Also that place in Catford that had kittens and little animals for sale.

I loved the egg, chips and peas at the Wimpey as a child. I missed the Dutch Pancake House when it closed in Manchester.

My first Saturday job was at Owen Owens in Liverpool on the men's underwear counter

I do. Didn't they sell clothes too?

What I have remembered as the Kardomah in Kingston was actually the Kenco Coffee House near the Market Place. Very popular in the 70s. Long gone. Not sure when it closed. It was a favourite place with DH and I before he was DH.

Grandmaofone Slack Alice.

As a teenager I used to shop in C&A and my first purchase was a pale green crimpilene (?) A-line mini dress. I thought it was very stylish at the time.

Debenhams and BHS in our next door town. And the MS as well. The town is empty. Just vapes, barbers and the likes. Cafes but just the chains. No atmosphere at all. Another bank has closed.
It's a riverside town with pretty riverbank walks and a conservation area. So sad. I used to love shopping there. Debenhams always had what I wanted. BHS had a great lighting dept. Both had a restaurant

The Kardomah - the decor at ours was a mix of art nouveau and Tiffany lampshades. Very quaint and reassuring almost.

Now we've got Cafè Nero. Not. The. Same.

I remember that models would walk around the restaurant in Rackhams in Birmingham.

Lewis’s in Birmingham had what they called a zoo on the roof. It was just a few rabbits and such like in cages.

Does anybody remember Le Macabre Coffee Bar in Soho. It had coffin shaped tables and dark spooky decor.

I also remember Daniel Neal where you could buy children's clothes and shoes and get their feet x-rayed. There was also Gamages and the Army and Navy Stores.

NotSpaghetti, I remember the Conti Club late 80s / early 90s.
There was also Bookbinders on Minshull Street.

Ally 27. Yes all those wonderful department stores and their fa ulous grottos at. Christmas. Blacklers had the big rocking horse on the ground floor. Wonderful bygone days.