Shops and Cafes no longer here.

Chelsea Girl!

The Milkmaid on Piccadilly?
Danish Food Centre for open sandwiches,
I dimly remember the Kardomah on Market Street,
Manchester, a palace of Art Deco and cigarette smoke
all gone now its a New Look, this is called progress
Marshall and Snelgrove
Affleck and Brown
Lewis’s
all the lovely shops on posh St Ann’s Square
Kendal Milne! on Deansgate
The Rosenthal Shop,
the many bookstores
and
Mazel Radio!

If we include restaurants, Berni Inns

Never heard of any of those names but then I never lived in a city

I remember the Dolls’ Hospital in Reading where I took my china doll to have a leg replacement.

The Golden Egg in Wimbledon, my refuge during my au pair days. A few of us used to meet up there and compare notes on our employers...I was very lucky with mine and became a real member of the family. Not many who were so lucky though..

My mum and Dad met in the Kardomah in Derby.

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 Magnet cafe, Manchester
Greenwoods menswear

Neither exist anymore.

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 .

I remember going to the Golden Egg in Oxford Street, London as a teenager 60 years ago

I remember Kardomah. The branch i frequented was in Buchanan street in glasgow city centre. We called it Cat and Donut.