Shops and Cafes no longer here.

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.

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

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

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.

What you have missed Mojak

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.

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 .

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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!

Moor Street Warehouse in Birmigham. I used to be mesmerised by the system that sent the change wizzing round the shop in what looked like a tin can.

Does anyone remember Apple the boutique on the corner of Baker Street owned by The Beatles.

It opened in December 1967 and closed in July 1968. I had a holiday job in Bond Street at the time and the day the shop closed, they were giving stuff away free, one item per person. I managed to nab a rather awful Kimono. It is lurking at the back of my wardrobe as, I'm not quite sure why, I don't want to part with it.

SpinDriftCoastal My DH frequented the Plaza cafe before we met probably with his scooter club mates. He remembers Annabels as being George Bests place. He also went to Time and Place. Grandmaofone
I didn’t move to Manchester until 73 so it’s great reminiscing some of the early shops I got to know, The milk bar in Piccadilly and a boutique near CandA I think called 2001

Rackhams in Birmingham, a very posh department store, had the most fantastic and genuine January Sales. People would queue for days, sleeping bags, and families taking food for the queuers. The big bargains were all one-offs though, hence the queueing.

Is anyone a Stokie? Remember Huntbach's and Bratt and Dykes in Hanley? C&A (my ma in law used to call it "coats and 'ats"!) Tiko Coffee Bars, The Place (not a shop a nightclub) Co-op Department stores and who could forget Woolies with their wooden floors? Dolcis shoe shops, Pauldens in (Newcastle under Lyme )
It seems to me that everyone is reminiscing these days..even my own sons, now in their 50s. Is it because our world feels so unsafe now?

HelterSkelter1

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.

My mum was a ‘coffee snob’ and we used to go there. She liked proper coffee and wouldn’t buy instant so we always had ‘proper’ coffee at home. It is hereditary because I am the same- fine because Melbourne is very,very good at coffee !

For clothes:
Snob
Etam
Mark One
Fosters men’s wear
Hodges menswear
For shoes:
Barratts
Freeman Hardy Willis
Stead snd Simpson
Millwards
For coffee:
Carwardines
Stephen’s bakery

Shel1951

There used to be John Colliers for men.
When I was a child I used to sing along with the tune..John Collier John Collier the windows to wash, never understood why people would want to wash shop windows

The window to watch, not wash! I wonder if some of us were in the same place in Manchester years ago, the same names cropping up!
I still say Kendal Milne, or I did when we still lived up there, all my Denby came for KM as seconds, Denby another recent loss.

Dodo43

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.

My wedding dress came from Richards, £3 10s, very short, white lace with big sleeves, my grandchildren are amazed at the odd photo I have.

I think Annabell's was where he was often seen, LizH13.
I don't think he owned it.

@Esmay, I loved PastTimes and often buy Christmas and birthday presents on Ebay or Vinted of their items. I was a music student in the mid-eighties and our performance exams, aka recitals to which people could attend the final such recital - were formal and strict dress codes were expected. Male students had to wear DJs and many of the female students, including me, bought our special dresses from Laura Ashley. I also had my "going away" outfit for my wedding in 1989 from Laura Ashley - a dress with matching jacket, which I was able to wear for other formal occasions afterwards. I still have them in my wardrobe but the chances of me ever being able to fit in them again are somewhere between fat chance, slim chance and no chance whatsoever! Laura Ashley sizes were notoriously lacking in generosity and my size twelves from that time are probably more like a present day size eight.
I loved Chelsea Girl, Richard Shops, Dorothy Perkins, Dolcis as they had such a good, fashionable selection at prices that would not break the bank. It's a shame that they have all gone. Another more recent casualty is Brantano. They had a wide range of shoes in an equally wide range of sizes at reasonable prices. When my daughter went to her school prom in 2012, we were able to buy a lovely pair of formal shoes in size 2, her size, in the adult section, which is very hard to do normally. Similarly I have a friend who takes size 10 and she was able to choose from a wide variety of ladies' shoes in that size in the same way that most of us take for granted and never have to think about.

Musicgirl-

Going to Past Times and buying very pretty dresses from Laura Ashley was a happy interlude in my life.
I look back and I think that they were naive and innocent times.
Unlike the terrible world in which we are living now.