Can anyone remember the shops in the old Churchill Square?

[Doc Lynam]

I remember Intersport and the perpetual "closing down sale"!

 

[shaolinpunk]

Not in the old Churchill Square, but when Eisnegger had a store where Hollisters is at the moment they had a closing down sale for about five years

 

[The Gem]

WOW memory lane, I worked in the Tesco right at the back in 1979 for 3 months until I joined the army

 

[LamieRobertson]

I worked in that tescos too for three months before moving to the HMV store

 

[Seagulls Downunder]

WOW memory lane, I worked in the Tesco right at the back in 1979 for 3 months until I joined the army

Think there was a Bejam next door which then became Icelands and what about Habitat, what kid didn't go in there and hide amongst the bean bags.

 

[Hornblower]

There was a Habitat and a big Mothercare.

 

[Common as Mook]

Our Price was next to Tesco wasn't it?

 

[spongy]

I remember I bought my SNES from the Dixons at the back.

And also when I was a kid I tried running up the down escalator, tripped, and ripped my knee open on the serrated edge.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Think there was a Bejam next door which then became Icelands and what about Habitat, what kid didn't go in there and hide amongst the bean bags.

Indeed there was - remember going there regularly with my Mum during school holidays to do the weekly shop.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Slims cafe

 

[Return of the Rev]

The solarium cafe always stop to use the toilets(nice and clean)

 

[Doc Lynam]

I didn't realise so many streets were lost in the making of that 60's concrete block. Bit before my time but anyone remember the old streets and what was on them?
Cannon Street, Artillery Street, Russell Street and Granville Place (below) to name a few.

Old street map around Western Rd (just look how streets and pubs were lost and a meat market, a whole community!)

Then in the early 60's

 

[Hove Seagull]

Ahh, the days when Tesco clothes were called Delaware (or something like that?)

 

[Kumquat]

Think there was a Bejam next door which then became Icelands and what about Habitat, what kid didn't go in there and hide amongst the bean bags.

Habitat was the first place I thought of. My mum f***ing loved that place. Me and my brother used to go into HMV while she trawled round Habitat like some drooling homeware obsessive.

 

[Badger]

That computer game shop in the dingy corner next to the public toilets.
WHSmith Record Shop.

 

[Doc Lynam]

Was there a tie shop?

 

[Buckley's Mad Eye]

Slims cafe

This^

 

[maltaseagull]

I spent a couple of weeks at the Co-Op for an induction when I started with them .

 

[Doc Lynam]

Slims cafe

Greasy spoon?

 

[Colossal Squid]

Then in the early 60's

What's this "site of Sports Stad" in this image?