Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

BobClay

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It was a magical world for a kid in there. Train sets, all manner of models and toys. It might look a bit rough on the outside, but once inside you were soon parted from your paper-round money by all the wonderful goodies on show. The new shop up on Eastgate was larger, well lit and nicely laid out, but it never had that almost Harry Potter style of magic that this shop had. :)

Or am I just being sentimental ? .... (starts to field strip the .50 cal to put myself right.) :P
 

Gramaisc

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I never went in the original shop, but the building survived until I arrived - it's hard to be sure, without overlaying maps, but I think it may have been somewhere about where the central reservation flares out, just north of the crossing to Asda over the Queensway.

Was the Unicorn where the Deak was, before he went to the Sun?
 

BobClay

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I never went in the original shop, but the building survived until I arrived - it's hard to be sure, without overlaying maps, but I think it may have been somewhere about where the central reservation flares out, just north of the crossing to Asda over the Queensway.

Was the Unicorn where the Deak was, before he went to the Sun?

Well, I wasn't a patron of the Unicorn when I was buying toys from Bagnalls ... :eek: You'll have people thinking I'm some sort of early starter pisshead !!! :pint::o
 

BobClay

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Jeez one bottle of Bulmer's Cider (bought from Kidmans when you were camping out on the Rec as a kid) and it comes back to haunt you all these years later. :roll:
 

EasMid

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Is that about where "Resales" was? I'm fairly sure it was just before the pub on the corner. (Of course I'm waaay too young to remember the pub's name)
 

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proactive

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Try this.

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littleme

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@tek-monkey & @Withnail s links never work for me, I have to come out of the page, & then go back in to see them...
 

Gramaisc

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You'll just be on some sort of list - for making remarks about Cheltenham, or something like that...
 
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