Shops and Cafes no longer here.

Anyone remember Chiesmans in Lewisham ? I used to go there with my Mum and she would order a drip filter coffee in their cafe. It was a big department store.

I’ve got that John Collier tune stuck in my head now.

Favourite shop ever was Biba - only visited once on a rare trip to London but have never forgotten it

Wimpy Bar
British Home Stores
C/A

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 !!

I used to buy my children’s uniforms and clothes from Littlewoods. I can remember my mum buying me clothes from C and A - they always seemed to be made of crimpoline, so don’t miss that 😂 I used to like Debenhams. It was always the start of Christmas to take my children to see the lovely Christmas displays. And every area seemed to have a local hardware shop where you could buy just about anything. Ours was called Lennox. If you needed a screw, a mop, an obscure bit for the washer - ‘I’ll go to Lennox’s’

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

Lyons not leons

I remember Leon's corner house Marble Arch, my mum used to take us there many moons ago.we lived in Camden town

I met my first husband at On the Seventh Day in Manchester. We used to go every Saturday in the mid 70’s. If they burned the brown rice you got it for free!

Tammy girl. Saw one in Tenerife.
I never shopped there but remember it well.

From my days of living in Chester I remember Brown's of Chester .
It was a beautiful department store.
There were plush armchairs for the benefit of customers!
It eventually became a very shabby Rachams. No idea if it's still there as many branches of Rachams have closed.
Also in Chester, Quaintways a large grocery shop.
I used to take my daughter to Chelsea Girl in Chester when she was a teenager. She's almost 58 now.

Importers with coffee roasting in the window on Guildford High Street was great. I recall Fields in Hull as a boy.

Kardomah! Yes I remember them? They had an air of days gone by conjured up visions of my mum waxing lyrical about Lyons Corner Houses her generation's place to go for the most wonderful KnickerbockerGlory I was told.

Pierre Victoire a chain of French Restaurants that went bust in the '90s I think. They offered really cheap 3 courses, maybe why they disappeared.
Loch Fyne, there was a lovely one in Canford Cliffs, Bournemouth, very clapperboard New England style we always went there on our annual trip to the area. I love fish, their speciality so sorry when that one went.
Cafe Rouge have gone now maybe trounced by Cote Brasseries.

Spaghetti Houses in London, I remember they did wonderful profiteroles once, back in the '70s. An ex and I frequented them quite a bit.

Pizzaland anyone remember that chain?, A German friend and colleague and I sometimes went to one near our office. They did a special offer between 12 and 2. 2 slices of pizza, jacket potato and coleslaw. Got there once around 2.10 once, waitress told us that had finished for the day. Friend stared her down with a "it's on zee menu and I vont it" and hey presto it appeared. I was always in awe of her assertiveness thereafter 🤣

The Swiss Centre in Leicester Square.The clock with the people going round is still there

Used to like Chelsea Girl when I was a teen, I think river island took over.

Esmay

It was a very different world wasn't it ?

We had a selection of interesting shops -there was the man who sharpened your lawnmower once a year.
There was a very elderly and rather frail elderly man who sold toys and lent out books for a penny a week
The corner store where you could buy broken biscuits at a discount .
I enjoyed watching them weigh out everything.

Moving on -looking at footage of eighties Britain -there's Past Times and girls wearing those lovely Laura Ashley dresses some of which I either coveted or owned .

Loved both of those shops 😊

BoggledMind

SpinDriftCoastal

Manchester? Does anyone remember The Seventh Day on Oxford Road, possibly one of the first vegetarian restaurants. Or, The Plaza where they served vindaloo after a hard night on the town?

The vegetarian restaurant rings a bell now you mention it, though I never went in.

Grandmaofone I remember a few of yours.
Lewis's (Liverpool's branch also closed down)
Affleck & Brown became Affleck's Palace - a great place full of independent traders
I remember the underground passage linking Kendals' two buildings on Deansgate.

My gran worked at Affleck & Brown. When it closed, she went to Pauldens, which became Debenhams.

O yes Pauldens! thanks

I used to meet my boyfriend outside Lewis’s in Liverpool
as I came in via Central Station.
“standing there like one of Lewis’s” ha ha
my Nan used to buy her stockings at Blacklers in Liverpool

I remember The Adelphi when it was posh and couples honeymooned there on their first night. Long ago!

Stead and Simpson, Freeman Hardy Willis, Dolcis was an enormous store on Market Street, Manchester, Saxone,
Ravel! Barretts, then Bally Shoes and now Russell and Bromley

now what do we have, the ubiquitous trainer

Richard Shops, Principles, Wallis all gone in 2000
with the demise of the Department Stores.
The evolution of the High Street and personal shopping.

SpinDriftCoastal

Manchester? Does anyone remember The Seventh Day on Oxford Road, possibly one of the first vegetarian restaurants. Or, The Plaza where they served vindaloo after a hard night on the town?

The Eighth Day, Oxford Road?

Still there!

SpinDriftCoastal

Manchester? Does anyone remember The Seventh Day on Oxford Road, possibly one of the first vegetarian restaurants. Or, The Plaza where they served vindaloo after a hard night on the town?

The vegetarian restaurant rings a bell now you mention it, though I never went in.

Grandmaofone I remember a few of yours.
Lewis's (Liverpool's branch also closed down)
Affleck & Brown became Affleck's Palace - a great place full of independent traders
I remember the underground passage linking Kendals' two buildings on Deansgate.

My gran worked at Affleck & Brown. When it closed, she went to Pauldens, which became Debenhams.

I miss C&A still, I used to work there so staff discount too. Shoe shops there are hardly any now, Anyone remember Lyon’s corner house? My sister was a ‘nippy’ at Marble Arch corner house.

I recall many independent shops and cafes……all sadly gone now after the big names took over. But those are closing down since the trend of online shopping! No wonder town centres look so drab and uninviting………charity shops, nail bars and barber shops abound now.

Yes Chelsea Girl GB I used to go and spend my wages from my Saturday job in there after work. Etam too long gone.

kittylester

My mum and Dad met in the Kardomah in Derby.

Oh Kitty I remember that Kardomah 😀