Steve de grey
proper brummie kid
Trying to remember long gone shops. Can remember paynes shoe repairs.Wimbushes bakery. Timothy whites chemist. Wrensons grocery. Anymore I've forgot
Butchers?marsh and baxters
I think they started as a pork butchers. I know they made pork pies, sausages and other pork related goods. Apparently the Black Country Museum has a Marsh and Baxters shop.
I think they started as a pork butchers. I know they made pork pies, sausages and other pork related goods. Apparently the Black Country Museum has a Marsh and Baxters shop.
radio rentals
Lee Longlands
Laura Ashley
Mothercare
HMV
I thought some HMV were still open although they closed a lot.didnt know all those were long gone pete
Canadian firm Sunrise Records emerged as the buyer of collapsed music chain HMV last year after the company collapsed into administration. However the deal came with a number of closures which have now been revised......I thought some HMV were still open although they closed a lot.
Think Radio Rentals operate via a website only - at least they did at one time but shops have gone.
I remember the Midlands educational had an escalator in itVictoria Wines
Midland Educational
Barrows
Thanks Pete, this is a depressing list!sorry to say it looks like more are going to join the list
List of shops that have collapsed into administration in 2020 ...
it sure is.Thanks Pete, this is a depressing list!
I remember the Midlands educational had an escalator in it
i remember the old store i would go in there and laskys for a moochThe Midland Ed was originally in Corporation Street, roughly opposite where C&A was, if I remember rightly there were only stairs in that shop. The art department was in the basement - I loved going down there, it had a wonderful smell. Other than that, I think there was just the ground and first floor.
Later they moved up the road towards Lewis's in that newer block near where Oasis market is and that shop did have escalators.
Chelsea Girl on a Saturday was always a " must visit " on a Saturday after spending lunchtime in the Tavern in the Town, sad really. I guess it was Birminghams equivalent to Londons Biba but perhaps not on the same level.All these clothes shops that I shopped at one time or another:
Chelsea Girl, High Street
Etams, Bull Street (same premises as Lewis Separates but later?)
Lewis Separates, Bull Street
Van Allen, High Street
Tiffany’s boutique, Temple Row
Bus Stop, New Street
Crowthers, Corporation Street
C&A Corporation Street (gone in this country, still going abroad)
Just goes to show how volatile the rag trade was/is.
Viv