keymarkets and bejams

[Gritt23]

Who remembers the glass animal man in queens road?

It was impossible for any child to walk down from the station without standing there transfixed at his window for at least 5 minutes. It was for me anyway. Superb. I can see him creating a little glass dog in my minds eye right now.

 

[Norman Potting]

Which branch is that, the Brighton one is/was in the Arcade by the Clocktower. Happy memories of the Tunbridge Well branch, used to walk past it on the way to school. To any Tunbridge Wellians out there this was when it was at the top of the High Street, not halfway up Mount Pleasant Road.

 

[Gritt23]

 

[aolstudios]

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hold on there, bald eagle classic

 

[Return of the Rev]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P3VnwAOXDQ

 

[Return of the Rev]

It was impossible for any child to walk down from the station without standing there transfixed at his window for at least 5 minutes. It was for me anyway. Superb. I can see him creating a little glass dog in my minds eye right now.

my mate went out with his daughter,recall drinking gin and orange at her house

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Brentford Nylons!

Go in there, there was so much static you'd come out looking like Rod Hull (pre-ariel fixing mishap!)

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[Cian]

Wavyline and Spar, strangely Spar now run the NAAFI shops

There's a Spar in Gatwick Airport is there not? Dutch brand I think, loads all over Europe.

Mace?

Still going strong in Ireland, both sides of the border.

Supermarkets that left Ireland were Tesco and Iceland. Both came back, Tesco waited till there was a bit more money around and bought out someone; Iceland waited till there was 10% unemployment!

 

[Braders]

Tandy? along London Road.

 

[pasty]

Fosters Menswear anyone?

 

[pasty]

One of my first weekend / holiday jobs working at the Happy Eater at Hickstead in the early 80's.

 

[Leosayer]

Vivo became spar I think

 

[gjh1971]

 

[Leosayer]

Ratners

 

[pasty]

Ratners

Shops have gone since his infamous foot-in-mouth episode, but still trading on t'internet as Gerald Online

 

[aolstudios]

One of my first weekend / holiday jobs working at the Happy Eater at Hickstead in the early 80's.

used to stop there, halfway to work to avoid the rush hour on a23 and have breakfast. We put on weight, strangely

 

[Garage_Doors]

i used to go in there. Moulscoomb?

I watched it being built in the same was as the stadium, I worked for Allenwest at the time and it was on former AW land.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Tunbridge Wellian here (now Plymouth) I remember both Gamleys stores, fond memories.
We have loads of Spars down here and even a few REGENT petrol stations, I have'nt seen one of them for years.

 

[BensGrandad]

Bejam was named after the founding directors Brain, Eric, John (who was the MD, also owned Majestic until a few years ago), and Milly (John's mum)

That could be true as I was told about this years ago but I thought that a James came into it somewhere, either a christian name or surname.

 

[AnotherArch]

What about Bellmans on London Road. one of those new-fangled supermarket thingys where you had a trolley and had to serve yourself?
(Across the road at Sainsburys you still had to queue at each counter for chesse, then ham, then other stuff, etc.)