shops you remember as a kid

For me going to the shop meant going to alans at the bottom of hardy mill road in harwood. Usually for a quarter of choc nibbles and a pint of milk.

Next door but one to him there was a sports shop that always had mizuno stuff in it plus i got a few second hand golf clubs for the driving range from there. Then it was a barbers run by the same guy.

Ollys newsagents was a few doors down with a blockbusters next door. Out of all 4 only alans is still there.

All these big supermarkets that do everything is killing local business which is a bit shit.

Blockbusters
C and a
Woolworths
Stolen from ivor
Tandy

All shops i remember from being a kid and are no more

What does everyone else remember

The United Cow Product shop (UCP) - is there only me that used to like tripe and onions?

Going off on a bit of a tangent - I know it is only the second post in - but I thought I'd mention the cinemas - Odeon and Lido - and the 'baths' - Moss Street, High Street and Bridgeman Steet - clubs - Scamps, Maxwell Plums, Bees Knees - the bird cage in the Arndale - and some old sports stadium down Manchester Road!

Happy days.

Salters sports shop in Farnworth. Got all my gear from there. There was also a little shop up the top end of Cleggs lane in LH called Dovers,where I got my bottles of Tizer.
Kenton's,the first supermarket in Walkden,on Bolton Road. 
There used to be a great store in Bolton where you could buy anything from crockery to lighting,but for the life of me I can't remember what is was called.
Also on Cleggs lane was a grocery shop with the unfortunate name of Swindels.
There was a great little sweet shop near Devonshire road in Eccles where my gran lived,but it's a costcutter now.
C&A and WH Smith in Bolton centre. Spent many happy hours in those two.
Got me thinking has this.

boltonbonce wrote:There used to be a great store in Bolton where you could buy anything from crockery to lighting,but for the life of me I can't remember what is was called

Whiteheads or Whittakers perhaps?

Also book shops - Chapter and Verse.

Don't get me started on pubs!

Sluffy wrote:

boltonbonce wrote:There used to be a great store in Bolton where you could buy anything from crockery to lighting,but for the life of me I can't remember what is was called

Whiteheads or Whittakers perhaps?

Also book shops - Chapter and Verse.

Don't get me started on pubs!

I'm sure it began with a 'G'.

Gregory and Porrits on Great Moor Steet?

everyone in Bolton used to buy their jeans in Talibs and i used to spend hours in HMV and X records stocking up on music.

I went to Moss St baths with my primary school every week, it truly was a dump, then we got the water place which was great but that got bulldozed too.

Sluffy wrote:Gregory and Porrits on Great Moor Steet?

  That's the one. Cheers.

HMV used to be Andy's Records I think, anyone remember that?

Also Gibson Sports in town along with Boydells I think it was called that sold toys.

think they were 2 separate shops KP, Andys was on the corner and HMV round the corner. I remember Boydells well, it was massive and was always a treat going in there 

Norpig wrote:think they were 2 separate shops KP, Andys was on the corner and HMV round the corner. I remember Boydells well, it was massive and was always a treat going in there 

Yes you are right!

I used to love going in Boydells too, I'm sure that they had 2 floors that were split into two as in downstairs for boys and upstairs for girls toys?

There used to be a Cassino just along a bit and facing from Andy's Records - back Mawdsley Street, a posh night club too iirc, a wine bar / restraunt called Mr Bojangles (again iirc) where I used to drink cheap beaujolais and further down towards the Dreat Moor Street end, The Bus Inn - which was really rough back in the day.

Not all these places where going at the same time.

Used to go on the front to the shops in Astley Bridge where ASDA is (where the petrol station is and car park at the side of Blackburn Road), they had a big row of shops they rented out and remember going to Brown's electricals for bulbs and fuses with my dad and also Bridge Cosmetics, Colour Vision and T Coops on the opposite side for those charcoal bisuits for dogs!

Also the video rental shop on the corner!

I remember Gregory and poritts. I lived opposite there after it closed down for a while.

I worked at stolen from ivor so obviously remember that

X records was my favourite record shop growing up. My room was covered in movie posters and band posters.

I remember the shops in Astley bridge to kp. Wasnt little Italy there.? Nice little pizza shop.

y2johnny wrote:
I remember the shops in Astley bridge to kp.  Wasnt little Italy there.?  Nice little pizza shop.

Yeah was there for many years, their Mighty Meaty pizza was a tasty one!

After ASDA pulled the remaining shops down to extend the car park, about 2 years later Little Italy opened up facing but it doesn't seem to be doing well.

karlypants wrote:

y2johnny wrote:
I remember the shops in Astley bridge to kp.  Wasnt little Italy there.?  Nice little pizza shop.

Yeah was there for many years, their Mighty Meaty pizza was a tasty one!

After ASDA pulled the remaining shops down to extend the car park, about 2 years later Little Italy opened up facing but it doesn't seem to be doing well.

I remember it well. After driving round town with the music pumping in my 1.2 clio with 17" chrome alloys we used to park up and go to little italys

Them where the days

Always used to go to a shop called Beardsworths in Breightmet for my football stickers and they made there own Vimto ice lollys which are still the best lollys I've ever had. Used to sell lucky bags as well.

Then there was Breightmet wine shop were I would get my bombay mix, sports mixtures and American Cream soda with liquorice, and when I got older where I used to get 20/20 and Hooch.

In town always used to visit Boydells and a computer shop on Chorley Old Road called Masons Leisure.

We used to visit Computer World when I was a kid for software for my Amiga 600 I still have.

The shop used to be on either Halliwell or Chorley Old Road.

It was on Chorley Old Road next to Masons Leisure. 

http://www.retrocorps.com/2012/09/bolton-computer-and-game-shops-video.html?m=1

Barb Dwyer wrote:It was on Chorley Old Road next to Masons Leisure. 

http://www.retrocorps.com/2012/09/bolton-computer-and-game-shops-video.html?m=1

Thanks for the link Barb, it was a nice little read that!

Not sure why we never went next door to Mason's Leisure, maybe we did but I have no recollection of going there.