Which high Street shops do you miss the most past /present

pollyolly

Not a High St. shop but how I miss Tommy Ball's shoes and clothes in Blackburn. Floors of Clarks seconds shoes, from baby's to adult's at rock bottom prices. Being able to buy my four children new school and best shoes there saved me a fortune and I always had the latest shoes for next to nothing.
And well known outdoor branded clothes at ridiculous prices,
£4 for full length down filled coat! Still wearing 30 years later!

I miss Tommy Ball's as well. I live about 5 minutes away from where the bottom shop was and used to find lots of b bargains there . Thanks for reminding me as I had forgotten about it.

BHS, woolworths, c&a, Richard shops

Wallis, Sheltons (Peterborough), Lewises (Leicester) and the Two Dollar Shop and The Warehouse (New Zealand).

Camelotclub - how lovely!

C & A and BHS.

I do wonder if there will be any shops left in High streets by the end of this year.

Biba

JaneJudge

Yes it was Etams! My Mum would shop at the front and I would head to the back...any men would hang about outside it was brilliant

We used to call Etam - everything to attract men. C&A we called Coats and ‘Ats. I was A Saturday girl at C&A. I used to earn 50p for the day, but you could buy a lovely pair of pearlised high heels in Manfield shoe shop for £2.19.6d ( approx £2.95).

Borders...browse & a brew.
M&S food halls...why, oh why, oh why?
Biba...still yearning.

Kate1949

In Birmingham we had The Beehive and Marshall and Snelgrove.

In the last war my Mum was an Air Raid Personnel warden in Birmingham. Marshall and Snelgrove had their shop windows blown out by a bomb. My Mum had to walk up and down to prevent thieves stealing stuff. As a schoolgirl I was nervous to go in there as the shop was so posh and the assistants so heavily made up and snooty. There used to be a lady in the window repairing nylon stockings.....

Lewis's and blacklers in liverpool. woolies - i remember in the hot summer of 1976 they had a complete counter filled with strawberries. macfisheries. i also miss mfi - ist home furnished from there with discount coupons from newspapers and after divorce furnished with more upmarket furniture

Another vote here for Borders - I really miss this. Replaced by huge Tesco (did we really need another supermarket?)

Also like many others, Woolworths. And local non-chain store Boswells.

Definitely Woolies, I loved that shop! It had an atmosphere all its own and nothing else has ever compared with it.

tricia12

Biba

Those teeny skirts, loved Biba’s.

Laughterlines

Kate1949

In Birmingham we had The Beehive and Marshall and Snelgrove.

In the last war my Mum was an Air Raid Personnel warden in Birmingham. Marshall and Snelgrove had their shop windows blown out by a bomb. My Mum had to walk up and down to prevent thieves stealing stuff. As a schoolgirl I was nervous to go in there as the shop was so posh and the assistants so heavily made up and snooty. There used to be a lady in the window repairing nylon stockings.....

Laughterlines.
Kate1949.

I had a temporary job for a few weeks only in the summer of 1967 in Marshal and Snelgrove in Oxford Street in their jewellery department. I enjoyed it and it helped pay the rent on the flat I shared with friends in Primrose Hill. The best years of my life, what fun we had and where I met DH. I had almost forgotten that very short period in my life. London was such a wonderful place to live at that time.
I wasn’t snooty at all?

We had a John Lewis 'At Home' (no clothes, beauty, etc ) open in our town about 4 years ago - lovely to browse in, or buy online and pick up there, plus a great cafe.. It closed after the first lockdown - I miss that terribly.

Miss East most of all, the new online store is not half as good.
Also miss The Pier, especially at Christmas .

Arsenal67
I remember Snob, I bought a big furry coat in there, in probably ‘71?
They seem quite fashionable again now.

Oh yes Laughterlines Marshall a&, Snelgrove was very posh.

Martin Ford

Yes arsenal67 I used to work not far from snob boutique in Cambridge many years ago

BHS their shoes always fitted me and I could wear them straight away no issues. Always bought my winter boots from there, never found any as neat, comfortable without looking frumpy and just the right height heel. Loved their coats as well?

Laura Ashley

Freeman Hardy Willis
Stead and Simpson
Chelsea Girl
Etam
Principles
Clock House C&A
The Pier
Comet

Anyone remember a shoe shop called Sasha (don’t think that’s spelled correctly) gorgeous colourful suede platforms

Too many to mention and indeed most people have mentioned them already.
But I really miss a small independent clothes shop in a nearby small town called J’s (or Jays?)
Ginny may know where I mean. Its owner had an eye for smart, often quirky, unusual things for grown up women - labels like Adini, and I think even Two Danes and Grizas.
She was not cheap, cheap but very reasonably priced and I can honestly say I never went in without finding something I liked (and usually bought)