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Gramaisc
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That's the one I can never remember - up by Tandy..?
John Marwood
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Next to Just Pants Plus
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Was Parkes next to the Nags?
Gramaisc
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Just found my grey, 6-cell Tandy torch during my current domestic excavations..
Mine is in the style of the upper of the two varieties shown here.
I've also found a Tandy catalogue from 97/98.
bpelectric
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Sony in Mill St closed to day
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Rowneys in Stone sold records, so i'd expect the Stafford shop to have too.
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I'm sure I can remember buying an LP from there in the late 70s/early 80s. Mike Oldfield I think.
They had a much better selection upstairs in Boots.
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I think you're right, but I wouldn't want to stake my own money on it. I have a feeling that they might have been a bit more classically-orientated than the other shops.
I did go to a couple of their B+O demonstrations in the Gatehouse - quite interesting.
I didn't even know there was a Rowney's in Stone. Hardly ever went there..
John Marwood
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Upstairs at Smiths and upstairs at Boots , late sixties and early seventies I think it would be, not to mention upstairs at Stantanders cafe in the market square to see ears nailed to trees, the Bridgewater Four stitch up, and the dodgy geezers.emerging from the underground lavvi
Gramaisc
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Yes - certainly up that end of Mill Street and on that side, anyway. 78s in his sleeves are still to be found at the boot sale..
John Marwood
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Oh good, some memory remains. I think the was a little chap called Godridge in there, used to get me my Dylan records until i discovered abootlegger in The Sun
Gramaisc
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In Eastgate Street originally, apparently, then moved to St Mary's Gate..
.. you can just see his name over the car - if the eyes haven't gone..
How that area has been improved by the modernisation.
bpelectric
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Yes they did I much preferred Parkes because they sold instruments as well, had my first drum kit from there
John Marwood
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In Eastgate Street originally, apparently, then moved to St Mary's Gate..
.. you can just see his name over the car - if the eyes haven't gone..
How that area has been improved by the modernisation.
Shot taken from somewhere around Grocotts chippie for the young folk
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1JKz
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That part of the Guildhall is going for a song, actually i don't think i'm using the term correctly, was almost trying to be clever.
...that part of town is looking a little drab now.
I hope (never going to happen) that the council reinstate that end of the Guildhall to how it looked pre 00's, i haven't pictures from the late 90s but from what i remember, it was nice and quaint, you could walk upstairs without battling through sports goods!
There was a mezzanine, there was a coffee shop, a fountain even, is that right? any oldies remember?
As for HMV, such a shame but if you don't put on the armour for battle, you'll die in vain.
...that part of town is looking a little drab now.
I hope (never going to happen) that the council reinstate that end of the Guildhall to how it looked pre 00's, i haven't pictures from the late 90s but from what i remember, it was nice and quaint, you could walk upstairs without battling through sports goods!
There was a mezzanine, there was a coffee shop, a fountain even, is that right? any oldies remember?
As for HMV, such a shame but if you don't put on the armour for battle, you'll die in vain.
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