I worked at Brighton Station Smiths in the early 80s and for a while at the store in Churchill Square. The business was a joke then so what it must very like these days.
I understand that these "travel" shops will stay because they make money, just the high street shops will close.Where are we now supposed to kill a good 20 mins or so raiding the music, film or sporting magazines for free - whilst waiting at any medium sized railway station?
They have funded the high street stores for years - maybe decades. Whoever signed the deal to put them in stations and airports saved a company which would’ve done under many, many years ago if they hadn’t.I understand that these "travel" shops will stay because they make money, just the high street shops will close.
Where will I be able to buy my copy of When Saturday Comes every month?
Hardly any football fanzines have survived the internet age. It's the perfect bog read and focusing on the bread-and-butter teams like Leyton Orient and Colchester United.
I'm a regular customer of the London Road WHS and have noticed the decline in the number and commitment of assistants over the last few years. I've watched shoplifters filling carirer bags with newspapers and walking out.
Yeah they did. Bought my first album there, Aladdin Sane.Unless I’m imagining it, I used to buy LP’s from WHS in Churchill Square in the 70’s when they had a downstairs record dept.
I may be wrong but wasn't that a separate little WHSmith record shop just opposite (next to where Natwest is now)? Wasn't the top floor of the main shop books, downstairs magazines, games, cards etc and then you had to walk out the back door and across to the record, VHS etc part of the shop? Or maybe there was another floor that I've forgotten about?Unless I’m imagining it, I used to buy LP’s from WHS in Churchill Square in the 70’s when they had a downstairs record dept.
Its a bit like a tablet except its all bendy, there's no sound, you can't scroll, and the pictures don't move.
Timely thread this.I'm a regular customer of the London Road WHS and have noticed the decline in the number and commitment of assistants over the last few years. I've watched shoplifters filling carirer bags with newspapers and walking out.
Nevertheless, it'll be a sad loss to the London Road as it's the last place to buy magazines, books, pens and pencils, games, off the shelf wills, filofax inserts and many of the other essentials of life.
Filofax inserts? No wonder they’re struggling if they’re trying to flog those.I'm a regular customer of the London Road WHS and have noticed the decline in the number and commitment of assistants over the last few years. I've watched shoplifters filling carirer bags with newspapers and walking out.
Nevertheless, it'll be a sad loss to the London Road as it's the last place to buy magazines, books, pens and pencils, games, off the shelf wills, filofax inserts and many of the other essentials of life.
You should have bought Trebor Soft Mints.Timely thread this.
I bought a single pack of Trevor soft mints yesterday at London.victoria station and got charged £2 ... I just had a look and it should have been around 70p... How do they get away with this ? Back in the day most shops charged the same for sweets etc didn't they?
Anyway there was one assistant there who was on her phone, walked past, smiled and nodded, then went to the furthest aisle, I thought at the time she was just telling me to nick what I wanted.
.....and I wish I had now.
Lol damnYou should have bought Trebor Soft Mints.
Trevor Soft Mints are £2, but Trebor are only 70p.
Annoyingly they are virtually indistinguishable and usually placed side-by-side on the shelf to catch the odd unaware customer.
Your memory is good. Ground floor depts (from front to back) were: news, stationery, fancy goods - yes really- and cards. Upstairs books and downstairs records. Woe betide budding shoplifters in stationery, a real-life Miss Marple worked there!Unless I’m imagining it, I used to buy LP’s from WHS in Churchill Square in the 70’s when they had a downstairs record dept.