Yes, Habitat are in Homebase now. We had one a mile away from my house and I picked up so many bits of kitchenalia and fabric from there over the years. I buy knitting wool online now, although there is a lovely wool and sewing shop in the middle of Didsbury (note to anno - it's just near the corner of School Lane and Wilmslow Road).
I loved Seymour Meads when I was young. My grandmother could sit on a chair and observe whilst they cut her bacon, patted her butter, bagged up raisins and sugar, and cut cheshire or 'cooking' (cheddar) cheese. I would be given a handful of broken biscuits to keep me occupied, whilst they exchanged pleasantries and gossip, then we would walk to the butcher's and the delivery boy would turn up with the groceries when we got back home.