Kiss my ....ooeerr sorry, I meant Kiss me Hardy.
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Kiss my ....ooeerr sorry, I meant Kiss me Hardy.
I would be proud to be called a captain :unibrow:
remember those Airfix planes and the packs of tiny little Airfix soldiers that always ended their lives going up the hoover :D
I used to spend ages glueing those planes together for my brothers cos they wanted the planes/tanks but never had the patience to assemble them
That's the place :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ged
Didn't it used to have Games written above the door on the corner too ?
Take a closer look at the photo. I have been in the building game on and off for most of my life. It seems they have laid straight over the old cobbles.The surface hasnt held, suprise, suprise.Well as a tarmac man myself I know it wont as the cobbles could never be even and never sound. Sureley the best method would have been to dig up the road put down hard core. Vibrate it create a level and a sound base and then Tarmac it. Then you dont have to keep coming back. I mean you could use the cobble stone for your hardcore. Cowboy council work I say.:034:
Yes, the trams lines are still there too, as were the ones in Whitechapel outside the Met Quarter I saw recently when they were digging up - or was it digging down :PDT_Xtremez_42:
Yes, Scouse, the diagonal door on the corner had Games above it too.
I think the toy shop in the precinct Zappa, was called Beatties and is now modelworld. City models has been in Elliot st, Stanley Street in the basement next to the barbers and also when the Ace Place moved from Dale street for a short while. There was also a model shop at the top of Bold st.
Does anyone recall a large toyshop at the top end of London road ? It was there in the late 80s.
I bought a TCR racing car set there for the lad
Can we expand this to computer games shops too ?
I remember City Software on Lime St and the one in central, but can't remember the name of that one.
Stretch it too far we could end up with adults playthings :002:
Ann Summers. :)
Part of my Beatles Tours brochure.
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Does Ann Summers supply models,I wander?
In brief - No!
Getting back to toys did you ever see something in a shop you really really wanted but could not have it for some reason? I remember a shop in Crosby and there was a Roman Helmet in the window just for display. I would dream about wearing it. The shop was not a Toy shop I think it might have been an opticians. Well my desire for the helmet never waned and I would look at the desired object everyday.:drool:
A nostalgic and memorable look back at hobbies toy shop. Great picture of the olde days. I remember the meccano my brother was mad about and was always hanging around outside hobbies. He used to ask me for pocket money so he could buy his next set.
My favourite shops:
Hatton's Model Railways used to go there a lot until mid 1970s then switched my allegiance to City Models.
By the mid 90s my interest switched more to photographing transport rather than making models.
Then City Models disappeared!
Isn't it sad though that there are no quality toys now made in the UK?
There are some nice scale models bearking UK names but most come from the far east even if they are designed here
Dinky, Meccano, Hornby ......
John