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what shops do you remember that have now closed down?

any areas

Birkenhead
Toy & Hobby (where was this?)
Worrals the stationers
Stolen from ivor
Asda

Bromborough Croft retail park
Childrens World

Liscard
Marks and Spencers
John Menzies
Netto
I am correct in thinking there was a sainsburys?

Birkenhead
Toy & Hobby (where was this?)
Worrals the stationers
Stolen from ivor
Asda
Row of shops on Conway Street (now demolished)
C&A

stolen from ivor was that the one that sold all the eclipse stuff?

C&A ofcourse!
Living (TX MAX, JD, JJB, Nu Look)
Au Naturalle (where HMV is now)
MVC (Poundworld)
index (Home bargain)
Littlewoods (wh smiths)

eclipse? was that spliffy?

what was whsmiths in Birkenhead is now the main post office (which used to be on oxton road - now closed down)

damn rite big smileys an all that those were the days!!!

Birkenhead

Toy & Hobby (where was this?) - B&M know occupys it.. B&M used to be What everone wants?
Worrals the stationers - is know Game
Stolen from ivor - is the Dr Herbal Medicines near argos(its closed down know though)
Asda is where Wilkinsons is right know...
WhSmiths is in the old Littlewoods building but its been converted into other shops..
Radio Rentals (if anybody remember this) Gamestation know occupys it..
The building used for Christmas grotto most years intown used to be the Old Mark One clothes shop
Tandy is know a Charity Shop
Contraband (which was the basement shop near Bon Marche) is know the mens section of Shoemarket..

yeah contraband. I used to love it in there lol

Tandy, that place was the dogs

new ferry market
fred's
frogetts (now bargain booze in new ferry)
kwik save - forgot wot is replacing that in new ferry

kwik save bromborough which is somerfield now ( i can't spell for s*** )

Netto Liscard - Weatherspoons.

Thats they only one i know!

I remember toy and hobby, pestered my parents everytime in town to go there, as a kid it seemed huge, rubber green flooring and shelfs stacked high with toys.
Also a bit of a way from town but the old sweet shop in Bidston avenue called vernons i think,sold all sweets under the sun plus had the seventies cardboard advertisements for marlboro and the likes, the shop was set out similar to arkwrights shop in open all hours, the same bloke worked there when my dad went there as a youngin and he is 63,

I'd like someone to check for me, please, whether Bernards the tool shop is still in Oxton Rd. It was a couple of years ago. About 100 yards up from Charing Cross, on the right. If it is, it must be one of the few shops remaining from my childhood. I remember my Dad sending me there for screws, etc. Just opposite Bernards was a good bookshop called Mortons. A bit further up Oxton Rd. on the corner of Windsor St. on the opposite corner to the Windsor Castle pub was a butchers called Hoyle's. He must have been Catholic, because I remember seeing nuns going in & he would put meat in their bag. No money changed hands.