Another silly little ABC game - shops we have loved and lost?

Ely’s is one of a chain of department stores. There’s one of the same chain in my local market town.

Ely’s of Wimbledon.
Actually I’ve just googled and I think they’re still there!
Can anybody in SW London confirm?

I think I might give upon this .Why are we even discussing The next one is E !!!!

Ro60

Sorry time lapse ? X? There Must be one!

yes there is ..there was X clothes..sold punk and alternative clothing, Bondage trousers etc !!

Oh sorry, I've just seen that it's supposed to be an alphabetical game, I thought it was a normal topic - count my letter as E, although I can't think of a shop I miss that starts with E (I'll check again later and see who comes up with an X or Z...).

Do these have to be well-known shops that used to be "household names" or can they be independent shops which went to the wall years ago?
Household name: Wimbush's Bakeries in Birmingham - I lived in Brum for a while in the 1960s and was addicted to their pineapple tartlets: a sweet pastry case, a layer of pineapple jam, a mound of synthetic over-sweetened "cream" and a coating of yellow icing dusted with green vermicelli - the four essential food types!
Small local shop: Old Snowball's paper shop/tobacconist, - specifically the sweets counter: sweet cigarettes, gob stoppers, sherbet dabs, penny chews, parma violets ... and big jars of blackjacks, acid drops, barley sugars, hundreds & thousands, etc, transferred with a scoop into a tiny paper bag.

Dingles.

Is it D ?
Dorothy Perkins

Home and Colonial Stores,
Civil Service Store (on the Strand)

Bourne and Hollingsworth

X - ? 《What on earth have you all been up to? I leave you alone for 5 minutes....》

Youngs.

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Waterstones ( sorry if it’s still going)

VJ's......off licence near my house in the 1970s

Unwins (wine merchants)

Reported.

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Timpsons

Simpsons

Rishworths -A nice furniture shop in town.

Quarzi's - was a corner shop/cafe where I grew up. It was very popular.

Paige’s - it was a fashion store on North Rd, Durham in the ‘60s.