What store do you wish was still here.?

Can I clarify -I’m not just sending random posters random photos!

Oh, he’s beautiful Fanny. I covet him! Thanks for derailing!

Woolworths and C&A.

Oh, and John Menzies.
Back in the early seventies, when I was approaching my teens, they sold quite a few things that I liked!
We have a pocket calculator bought there back in 1979, which is still going strong and used almost every day!
That must be some kind of a record

I worked in the Personnel Dept of Bourne & Hollingsworth in the Sixties. It's hard to believe now, but in those days all the big stores in Oxford Street closed at 1.00 p.m. on a Saturday and there was a late night on a Thursday when the stores opened until 8.00 p.m.
The store I miss the most is David Evans in Swansea, it finally became a House of Frazer store but closed about 15 years ago.
Sadly there is no longer a Monsoon store in South Wales, the nearest one now is in the Cabot centre in Bristol.
So many shops that have gone and nothing that's replaced them. It makes me feel quite sad.

We still have Country Casuals, Monsoon and Gap in our nearest large town. I miss BHS for their homeware department, especially lighting and bedding.

Chelsea Girl ...loved that shop!
The Pier for homeware and bits and bobs
Adams for children's clothes. I got so much from there and now there are no children's clothes shop
Mango

Are you sure Gap is still there Patsy70, I thought they closed all their UK stores at the end of 2021?

I thought Country Casuals disappeared years ago.

Lovely owl FannyCornforth My mum & my Aunty were both gilders at Crown Derby.
Kittylester I remember the old trolley buses running through town. Also, you mention Green Lane, there was a brilliant joke shop on there near Aileen Penns. We used to enjoy spending our pocket money in the joke shop & also going with our grandma to choose a new winter coat from AP’s. Happy days indeed.

Your wallpaper looks interesting Fanny.

There was a department store in St Albans called Greens. Loved having a mooch around there.

Jenners in Edinburgh. I miss all the department stores that have vanished.

I did like Jenners. However, i was always getting lost, it was a warren and I have absolutely no sense of direction.
A few years ago, I left DD to go to the loo, I couldn't find my way back!

Gamages
Houndsditch Warehouse
Bonds of Chelmsford

Yes going to the loo in Jenners needed planning in advance!

Pettigrew and Stephens
Dayls
Henderson’s

Woolworths.They used to sell tinned shampoo when I was a teenager and always brought my 45s at the record counter. They also tested lightbulbs before you brought them. I was a saturday girl at one and sold the orange squash there with the plastic oranges floating about in the machine.

Copeland and Lye Granniesunite? I always thought it looked more friendly than Pettigrew's for some reason. My mother would go up in the lift in both shops, but would always walk downstairs again because she hated the feeling of going down in a lift. I remember being taken to both shops every spring to choose material for my summer dresses, which my mother would make.

Just Woolies

Woolies was taken over in our town by Poundstretcher which seems to be just as good and sells the same sort of things.

In Dorchester, Dorset Woolworth were taken over by the staff. It sells similar stuff and is called Wellworth.
I miss Alexon ladies clothes. Boswells of Oxford, an independent department store. If it couldn't be found anywhere else, Boswells had it. They closed not so long ago. Much missed.

Hello ?
Being fulltime career for my nearly 3 year old grandson ,I miss mother care as back in the day I would be able to get every baby product I need in one shop ,Boots is good but don't always have everything I need for him x
Nora x

I loved C&A, but the one I miss the most is George Henry Lee in Liverpool. It was a wonderful store and spread over two sites. You could - and I frequently did - spend a whole day there and still not see it all. I used to go there with my mum once a month and we’d spend an afternoon there starting with lunch in their cafe and ending in the coffee shop. I miss Millets in Chester too - it closed a while ago. I really miss exploring it.

Casdon Germanshepherdsmum Yes, there is still a Gap store and Country Casuals in Bromley.

Aldom, we used to have an Alexon factory shop here, which had huge sales every so often. People started queuing at 7.30am.
There was many a bargain to be had at a fraction of the cost.

You were lucky to have Alexon at reduced prices Marydol. Lovely clothes. I still have a skirt which never goes out of fashion. The matching jacket is waiting to go to the charity shop as I haven't worn it for a few years.
I remember the beautiful Italian and French clothes I used to buy from C&A when I lived in the Netherlands.