Shops and Cafes no longer here.

ABC cafes - London
Lyons Corner House (The Restful Tray) - London

I ate my first Wimpy Burger at Lyons CH - it cost 1/6d (7.5p new money)

Hanningtons in Brighton
Hills of Hove

Bridey

Wimpy Bar
British Home Stores
C/A

We still have a Wimpy near where I live. You still get a burger on a china plate with a knife and fork and the drinks are in glasses. The prices have gone up a bit though since my first Wimpy.

In the summer of 1973 my incredibly, sophisticated (I thought so)! school friend had a summer job at Biba in London.
I was very impressed. I had a Saturday job at our local grocers.

I thought they where long gone Magenta8, no plates and glasses in my day, but it was were we all met up.

There is still a Kardomah in Swansea, tbh it's about the only thing left in Swansea , M& S closed last week, they do still have a traditional market though. I used to love the Milkmaid when I was teenager, but reading some of the comments on other posts lots that have have forgotten about.
C&A, BHS, Wimpy. Shoe shops in general they are all gone True Form, Dolcis , Stead & Simpson,

My family moved from a small rural town with one cafe to a small city when I was a teenager. The best cafe ( for a teen with limited funds) there was in a long gone department store- egg and chips was an affordable favourite. It’s not a common dish now. My sister worked in BHS cafe - whilst I worked in the food section, BHS now also long gone. The staff discount was useful!
My gran used to take us into Cowardines in Bristol for a cup of tea and to buy coffee beans.

Anyone remember the "Conti Club" on Harter Street in Manchester?

It was a bit of a "seedy dive" in the early 70s. We went there after most places had closed. It was always packed out it seemed to me. You had to knock on the door, speak through a window thing and go in down some steps into a basement - and then try not to trip over in the crush once inside!

The floor was presumably carpet - sticky with spilt drinks and we used to go to the men's loo if in a hurry (as you might queue for ages if you were "fussy enough" to want to use the women's).
For quite a while the mirror in the ladies was broken and someone had just held it up with judiciously placed screws.

The world and his girlfriend used the "Conti". Very cheap.
Full of atmosphere, adrenaline and joy! Footballers, students, doctors...
Anyone still out after midnight!

Magenta8

Bridey

Wimpy Bar
British Home Stores
C/A

We still have a Wimpy near where I live. You still get a burger on a china plate with a knife and fork and the drinks are in glasses. The prices have gone up a bit though since my first Wimpy.

We still have a Wimpy where I live too. I always preferred McDonald's but a friend insisted on taking the children to Wimpy because they had china plates etc which she thought made a burger 'proper food'.

I forgot Crawfords in Oxford: a self-service restaurant near Carfax - a godsend to the impecunious. I think it's gone now.

NotSpaghetti

Anyone remember the "Conti Club" on Harter Street in Manchester?

It was a bit of a "seedy dive" in the early 70s. We went there after most places had closed. It was always packed out it seemed to me. You had to knock on the door, speak through a window thing and go in down some steps into a basement - and then try not to trip over in the crush once inside!

The floor was presumably carpet - sticky with spilt drinks and we used to go to the men's loo if in a hurry (as you might queue for ages if you were "fussy enough" to want to use the women's).
For quite a while the mirror in the ladies was broken and someone had just held it up with judiciously placed screws.

The world and his girlfriend used the "Conti". Very cheap.
Full of atmosphere, adrenaline and joy! Footballers, students, doctors...
Anyone still out after midnight!

I went to the Conti in the 90s.

NotSpaghetti

Anyone remember the "Conti Club" on Harter Street in Manchester?

It was a bit of a "seedy dive" in the early 70s. We went there after most places had closed. It was always packed out it seemed to me. You had to knock on the door, speak through a window thing and go in down some steps into a basement - and then try not to trip over in the crush once inside!

The floor was presumably carpet - sticky with spilt drinks and we used to go to the men's loo if in a hurry (as you might queue for ages if you were "fussy enough" to want to use the women's).
For quite a while the mirror in the ladies was broken and someone had just held it up with judiciously placed screws.

The world and his girlfriend used the "Conti". Very cheap.
Full of atmosphere, adrenaline and joy! Footballers, students, doctors...
Anyone still out after midnight!

you sent me down a right rabbit hole looking for the name of George Best’s club on/off Deansgate, dyk, there are so many nostalgic Club scene threads out there I was almost sidetracked.

I also remember going to the Playboy Club, the restaurant food was amazing, on to the Time and Place, behind the Cathedral,
then onto a little restaurant with red checked cloths I cant remember where, off Deansgate? more of a cafe really.
This would be early 70’s. Great times, good fun, good music, safe, never any trouble or fights, the clothes! fabulous clothes.

Remember a café in Tottenham that had 50 different milkshakes

So many memories
Chiesemans in Lewisham 1950-55. They used to have baby chicks at Easter in a pen in the basement level pet shop and I am sure I rode on a little pony round the department. Could that be true.
Biba in 1965 or so on trips to London.
Tammy Girl Chelsea Girl
Hanningtons in Brighton 1967-69
Cranks in Brighton
Kardomah Cafe in Kingston in 1972
Pierre Victoire and Cafe Rouge in Richmond
All great places with atmosphere. Of course I was so much younger and life was good.
More recently Carluccios in Windsor where my friend sat and chatted at the outside tables to Carluccio himself having a quiet small cigar and coffee.

Sad to seemthem all gone.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Grandmaofone Slack Alice.

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.

I do. Didn't they sell clothes too?

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

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