I went to Pools today to get my ticket for the Alkmaar game on Wednesday, when I looked at the back there is a 10% discount for Burtons in the town centre, yet the expiry date is 31st May 2007

There's very little in Burtons worth having anyway.

Apart from that bewer with the dark hair who works on the till, Jonny.

I just won't be able to help myself now you've said that, I'll have to go in and see what she's like. i know it's sad but it'll be inprinted in my mind so I go in next time I pass the place.....

Whatever happened to Fosters menswear?

Didn't it turn into Scorers or some other hardware shop...?

Isn't Samuels the jewellers where Fosters used to be, if not it is JD Sports

I thought Fosters was upstairs, are you sure you aren't thinking of Paragon (chix shop) which is now a jewellers......

Fosters was downstairs Jonny, just along from Dixons.

Greenwoods bought Fosters out a couple of years ago I reckon. You don't really need Greenwoods until you feel the urge to dress in beige.........

or Tweed unless you wanna look like an RE teacher

Anyone remember Tandy! I got my first remote control car from there

aaahh tandy
Nearly everything I got from there broke

Give us younguns an idea where Tandy was, I remember the name but not its location

what, with my memory?
upstairs, on the corner or something.
Maybe downstairs.

tandy was downstairs just along from dixons ,near to where bodyzone is(we used to goto dixons after the match for the football results,they used to think it was funny to turn the telly,s in the windows off).

Yeah I think Tandy was situated where the card shop is now.

Anyone remember fine-fare, Gateway etc where Westgate's is now. Lol, those were the days. Oh and those round concrete benches, oh and the big hoover machines that look like noo-noo from teletubbies.

And the circular ramp.

The flowerbeds outside Woolworths.

The open roof.

The busker.

One of the Lee brothers asking for money to buy a tin of gas.

Ahhhhh the circular ramp, oh what fun I used to have pushing my little brother down it in his buggy and letting go

the stairs with gaps between the steps you could look up through the gaps and get a good eyefull (think i,ll leave it there).

Whitakers with the bog eyed old shop bird was always good for a laugh, as was Dixons sports shop next door with all the patches and badges they used to sell.

one of the town's sport shops had a woman with a glass eye. Might have been Dixons, next door to where Halifax is now.

That's the one Mr Parmo, near the chippy in the corner.

Tandy was downstairs where Play the dvd shop that has closed was I think.

I've no idea where that Play shop is / was but Tandy was definitely located where Mr Wonder says.

Aye Tandy was where bodycare is. No where near where play.com was.

What was the bike/model shop at the bottom of the ramp to York Rd called?

I think that was called Goodall & Lewis's...........I bought many an Airfix model from there and also from Frank Wrights which was on the other side a bit along from the Yorkshire Bank

Is Wilf Spence hardware on Oxford Road open? And Piggins butchers?

Dalkins rings a bell? What/ where was that?

Pools Surplus!!!

Dorothy Perkins

stylo shoe shop next to Woolies!! With shoes on display in that open corner bit, what everyone cut through instead of walking around, for some reason!!

Wasn't that Barretts? With Stylo up on the other corner not far from where Hungry Jacks is now, I think there's some kind of playstation game type of shop there now? Or was that Shoefayre?

hmmmmm

anyway - more shops - Greenwoods outfitters

Dovecot on Whitby Street

Dovecote was cool!

So was Bretts.

And Woolies used to be twice as big didn't it?

Tell you what else was cool too. We used to go and get the big shop at Asda on a Thursday night and park in the "Underground" car park so had to walk back through the shopping centre. All the shops used to have sort of hallways into them instead of flat shop fronts and as a nipper they used to seem sooooo long! Running in and out of those in the dark while the parents were struggling with the shopping bags and couldn't keep a grip of you was ace!

Rosens!! Piccadilly Bar!! Goldfinch Wines!! Goodalls!!

Frank Wrights!!

And the mother of them all Co-OP Central Stores.

When I was a postie we used to park on the ROOF of the shopping centre and deliver mail at the back of the shops. It's a whole different world up there (or was).

Fred Gents!!

The Central Stores and Delta were a pain in the hole when we were kids as my mother would always want to go there when we went shopping and with little legs they seemed like MILES away! And she banked with Co-Op bank which was on about the top floor of the Stores which she made us use the stairs to get to too.

But the toy department in the stores at Christmas was cool!

William Strikes
Pattisons bakers
Rayner's opricians
Bespoke tailors shop near the Labour club with grumpy impatient git owner
Avery's scales!
Army recruitment office
Robert Robinsons
The Yorkshire PENNY bank
The Trustees Bank
Hind's newsagents
Shop next to York Road methodist that used to sell completely lethal cut-price electrical appliances and shitty cheap screwdrivers and pliers

H. Lamb who moved his giant clock from Lynn Street to York Road
Motorbike shop where the King Johns is now

I think it was more late 70s, as I remember them closing it off when we used to get the big shop from the little Asda. Like you say, you could look in but not go in. Me and my brother always used to leg off in front and stare down there thinking that there might be ghosts or monsters in there and that was why they had closed it!

Pardon?

Have you burped?