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I remember getting little boxes of lego from Toners. Was it next door to the Coffee Roast? I'm sure it was at the end of a block.

Does anyone remember Leicesters on Wallasey Road? Art/ stationery. Reading about the lovely double Bookland shop reminded me.

I used to get my hair cut in the barbers next door, through the newsagents.

The toy dept in the Co-op was wonderful at Christmas time. I'd forgotten about Treasure Island and Youngsters (yellow plastic bags with red lettering??)

Went onto street view, Google maps just now. How depressing - tattoos and piercings on Seaview Road as well as all the other bargain type places already referred too. Rose-tinted spectacles are a wonderful thing, as is 20-20 hindsight!

PS wasn't the model shop in Liscard Crescent called the Hobby Shop? Don't remember it having anything to do with Exchange and Mart. Kenny Campbell's - round the corner, same side as the main Post Office.

It's now a Tattoo place if I remember rightly. Pretty sure it was next door to Lauries, to the left.

If only there was a website that tells the story of "Shopping In Wallasey'.

If only...

http://www....co.uk/wallasey/Shopping_In_Wallasey_Index/index.html

Wonderful!

thanks for the link.

Thats ok...its only in my signature!!

I loved Bookland and Strothers.

hey ste

i used to get my pellets and targets for my gat gun form Toners i was only about 13 or 14 how times have changed

Do you mean at the top end of Seaview Road by Hose Side Road. There was a video shop there till the mid-1990s. It was were the model train shop vacated a few months ago. I think prior to that it was right at the top of Malpas Road next door to Victoria Wine.

I used to live near there. Late 80s early 90s there were lots of shops - Post Office, 2 butchers, 2 greengrocers, hardware shop, florists, general shop etc. Now they're mostly empty.

I used to live near Hose-side as wellThere was also a little electric shop next to where the model shop is/was. I remember that shop also being a womans clothes shop - Lynn Leslie or something??

There was also a video shop opposite asda, near to the zebra crossing, cannot remember the name of it but we used to go in there to play the arcade game `final fight` lol.

Theres nothing in liscard anymore, it`s all gone now, only place i`ve been to in the last few years was gamestation about 2 months ago and even they didn`t have what i wanted, i got the game off Markee from here on wiki.

Wasn`t there a big toys r us or something like that where weatherspoons is now? Was also a rumbelows store and sainsburys at some point if i remember correctly?

yeah my mate worked at rumbelows upto closing. got a £ 300 sony hifi for £30 coz connecting ribbon cables missing. got em for £16 in Sony shop. they had a repair center next to the bronze off wallasey rd.

I remember that video shop. It opened around 1990. I remember the day it opened. The Teenage Mutant Turtles were meant to be turning up. They did but were an hour late and dressed in the crappest costumes possible. Quite a few disappointed children.

There were some good arcade games in there though. Final Fight, Willow, TMHT etc. That place was always full of Oldershaw kids wasting their pocket money.

I'm relatively young at 25 but I remember the video shop with the XXX part at the back through the curtain that I always used to sneak into.

The greengrocers isn't that long gone and they did open up a few years running to do Christmas Trees. Lovely couple they were. I used to enjoy my walks with my mum up that way, picking up our order from the butchers and some fresh fruit.

Just remebered one of the off licences near hose side road used to be a mini Tesco years ago. The one on the corner of Queensway.