Dearly departed shops :-(

[GOG440]

[quote=C&C]

As clearly in the same area, anyone remember Caddy's Ice Cream Parlour in Dewsbury near the old bus station?
Used to go in there for an orangeade float before catching a bus home.
Maybe it's nostalgia, but I'm sure it was the best ice cream I've ever tasted.

We used to live next door to John Cadamarteri who founded the business in 1902, but we always just knew him as Mr Caddy.
We were only very young. and he was an old man, but I remember he'd often come out of his house with a plate of chips he'd just made for us if we were out playing on the drive/in the garden.

CADDYS - DEWSBURY by Mosaic Images, on Flickr

Edited by C&C on Friday 19th January 15:31

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Do you know when Caddys closed?
I dont think I remember going in there but I do remember going into the bonbon cafe by the old bus station.

[Eyersey1234]

gtidriver said:

We had a Prestos in Folkestone that changed to Mainstop, then to Safeways I believe.i remember being 6or7 and every Friday was shopping evening, after the shop my parent where packing what they had bought I used to go play in the area that was full of boxes, used to meet up with other kids and we would build forts and chuck smaller boxes about.

I remember Presto, there used to be one in Pocklington before it became a Safeway, then when Morrison's bought Safeway it was sold to Somerfield but the monopoly people made them sell it as there was already a Somerfield in the town

[vikingaero]

Netto.

Still on the Continent, I know, but it was the store that changed Mrs V & I from The Big Four. We went in there to buy something from the weekly speshal offers and the lady in front of us had a trolley rammed with shopping - mainly all branded stuff. In The Big Four it would have been an easy £150 shop, but she paid £80.

[V8mate]

V8mate said:

Allanv said:

V8mate said:

No idea what prompted it to pop into my head, but does anyone else remember the Scientific & Technical shops in the 70s?

I have a really limited memory of them; certainly that they had telescopes in the window.

Do you mean Tandy?

https://www.tandyonline.com/about-tandy

No, this was pre-Tandy. Pretty much pre- most home electronics, IIRC.

Found a piccy

[C&C]

GOG440 said:

CnC said:

As clearly in the same area, anyone remember Caddy's Ice Cream Parlour in Dewsbury near the old bus station?
Used to go in there for an orangeade float before catching a bus home.
Maybe it's nostalgia, but I'm sure it was the best ice cream I've ever tasted.

We used to live next door to John Cadamarteri who founded the business in 1902, but we always just knew him as Mr Caddy.
We were only very young. and he was an old man, but I remember he'd often come out of his house with a plate of chips he'd just made for us if we were out playing on the drive/in the garden.

CADDYS - DEWSBURY by Mosaic Images, on Flickr

Do you know when Caddys closed?
I dont think I remember going in there but I do remember going into the bonbon cafe by the old bus station.

It was a wonderful place - full of red leather seats and lots of polished chrome. Also large mirrors with frosted patterns on them if I recall correctly.
There's a mention of it in an old Dewsbury Reporter article that mentions it being closed "some 25 years ago". The article is dated 2006, which would make it around 1981 when it shut. This fits in roughly with the time I remember.

...and since you mentioned it, I've found a pic of the Bon Bon Cafe from the same guy on Flickr:

BON BON Coffee Bar DEWSBURY by Mosaic Images, on Flickr

Edited by C&C on Saturday 20th January 03:46

[MJG280]

Big Rumbly said:

Green Shield Stamps and Pink Stamps shops

Green Shield Stamps became Argos. During the changeover I had to value their Daventry warehouse 1 million square feet. 1975ish?

[alorotom]

I was born in 82 and remember green shield stamps from Mobil petrol stations and drinking to Leeds with my dad mid-late 80s to cash them in for some or other tat lol

Didn’t realise it had anything to do with Argos!?

[Frank7]

Perik Omo said:

Gamages in Holborn, London. Used to have a fantastic xmas display with a massive model railway.

Christ, I must be old, I remember Gamages in Holborn, Chiesmans at Lewisham,
Jones and Higgins, Rye Lane, Peckham, Swan & Edgar, Piccadilly Circus, which
eventually housed Tower Records, how about Arding &Hobbs, Clapham Junction?

[Thankyou4calling]

Frank7 said:

Christ, I must be old, I remember Gamages in Holborn, Chiesmans at Lewisham,
Jones and Higgins, Rye Lane, Peckham, Swan & Edgar, Piccadilly Circus, which
eventually housed Tower Records, how about Arding &Hobbs, Clapham Junction?

Debenhams is on the Arding and Hobbs Clapham site now. Don’t know if it’s as big but takes up the block.

I remember Edmunds in Hounslow, Peter Stone menswear, motorist discount centre, feeeman hardy and Willis and ABC cafe.

[Randy Winkman]

alorotom said:

I was born in 82 and remember green shield stamps from Mobil petrol stations and drinking to Leeds with my dad mid-late 80s to cash them in for some or other tat lol

Didn’t realise it had anything to do with Argos!?

Anyone remember a shop somewhere in central London in the 1970s that sold tin soldiers that you could either buy ready-painted or paint yourself? It might have been called "Tradition". Or I could have just made that up.

[Kermit power]

Anyone remember the model Smurfs that National have away with petrol sales in the Seventies?

My dad must've got me fifty or more of those, but sadly they went astray somewhere down the years. Some of them would've been worth a bundle on eBay these days!

[Sheets Tabuer]

AppleJuice said:

Morningside said:

Isn't that just Morrisons?

Coming back apparently...

Morrisons bought them and kept half the shops but had to sell the other half to Asda.

I was banging a checkout girl at the time from safeway so got chapter and verse.

Pretty girl but she was the hairiest bird I'd ever seen, taking her knickers off was like the hair bear bunch emerging from under a quilt, literally like a grenade going off in a mattress.

[V8 FOU]

I still have a couple of Green Shield spanners from c1971 nestling in the vast £40K worth of Snap On.
You could get a set in exchange for 1 book of stamps!

[Kermit power]

V8 FOU said:

I still have a couple of Green Shield spanners from c1971 nestling in the vast £40K worth of Snap On.
You could get a set in exchange for 1 book of stamps!

So good they're still going strong, or so bad you only used them once?

[vikingaero]

Kermit power said:

Anyone remember the model Smurfs that National have away with petrol sales in the Seventies?

My dad must've got me fifty or more of those, but sadly they went astray somewhere down the years. Some of them would've been worth a bundle on eBay these days!

"National is the place on earth, where you get service with a Smurf!"

We used to hound my Dad to fill up every time we saw a Natonal garage.

[Morningside]

Kermit power said:

Anonymous Bodge said:

Any old fashioned car breakers yard.

I know this is going back a bit in time on this thread, but definitely this one for me!

I fondly remember helping a mate replace the bonnet, wing and light cluster on his mum's Pug 205 diesel during the course of a bunked-off Sixth form afternoon after he'd stacked it messing around on a narrow lane at lunchtime....

The good news was that the breakers next to the High Heavens tip in High Wycombe had the same model and colour (some sort of gopping beige iirc) which had been written off in a rear end shunt.

The better news was that they charged something like 30% less for parts you took off the car yourself.

The best news (although I'm sure if our parents knew, they'd have disagreed) was that the car was the top one on a stack of four! It's a good thing that like all seventeen year olds, we were immortal!

Can you imagine a breakers yard these days letting a couple of teenagers scramble around on the car stacks taking bits off?

Bring teenagers we always needed a pocket full of bulbs and fuses.

[Allanv]

V8mate said:

V8mate said:

Allanv said:

V8mate said:

No idea what prompted it to pop into my head, but does anyone else remember the Scientific & Technical shops in the 70s?

I have a really limited memory of them; certainly that they had telescopes in the window.

Do you mean Tandy?

https://www.tandyonline.com/about-tandy

No, this was pre-Tandy. Pretty much pre- most home electronics, IIRC.

Found a piccy

I vaguely remember them.

[Frank7]

Randy Winkman said:

Anyone remember a shop somewhere in central London in the 1970s that sold tin soldiers that you could either buy ready-painted or paint yourself? It might have been called "Tradition". Or I could have just made that up.

There was a tin soldier selling toy shop in Shepherd St., Shepherd Market, Mayfair, can’t recall the name, I never went in there, but it was across the street from a café that was popular with Black Cab drivers when I was driving one.
I just called a friend who’s still driving, to check, he said that it closed 5 or 6 years back, and that they had another branch just around the corner in Curzon St., he’d check if it was still there next time he went by, he thought that it began with T, but was unsure.

[C&C]

Frank7 said:

Randy Winkman said:

Anyone remember a shop somewhere in central London in the 1970s that sold tin soldiers that you could either buy ready-painted or paint yourself? It might have been called "Tradition". Or I could have just made that up.

There was a tin soldier selling toy shop in Shepherd St., Shepherd Market, Mayfair, can’t recall the name, I never went in there, but it was across the street from a café that was popular with Black Cab drivers when I was driving one.
I just called a friend who’s still driving, to check, he said that it closed 5 or 6 years back, and that they had another branch just around the corner in Curzon St., he’d check if it was still there next time he went by, he thought that it began with T, but was unsure.

Tradition of London?

[Frank7]

[quote=C&C]

Frank7 said:

Randy Winkman said:

Anyone remember a shop somewhere in central London in the 1970s that sold tin soldiers that you could either buy ready-painted or paint yourself? It might have been called "Tradition". Or I could have just made that up.

There was a tin soldier selling toy shop in Shepherd St., Shepherd Market, Mayfair, can’t recall the name, I never went in there, but it was across the street from a café that was popular with Black Cab drivers when I was driving one.
I just called a friend who’s still driving, to check, he said that it closed 5 or 6 years back, and that they had another branch just around the corner in Curzon St., he’d check if it was still there next time he went by, he thought that it began with T, but was unsure.

Tradition of London?

Looks like it after clicking on the link, just goes to show you the power of the memory part of the brain, must have been the constant memorising of streets, embassies, theatres, hotels, monuments etc. when I was “doing the Knowledge.”