Corner shops.

[darren]

Re: Corner shops.

A lot of that stuff would be banned now.

In our corner shop called mackles its not changed a single bit in my lifetime same old scales can still order half a pound or quarter of a pound.
Still get them in paper bags.

Still have the big clear screw top containers going in u instantantly go back thirty yrs.

getting told off for 'rooting around' in the ice cream cabinet lol-we couldnt help that we had to have that jubbly that was stuck right at the very bottom of the cabinetnearly fell completely into those ice cream cabinets several times lol-good memories i can mention of course are the varied 10p mix ups,mars bars for 12p,cans of sun charm or panda cola for 20p and the whole spectrum of other tasty treats that were kind on the stomach but not so kind on the teeth

[stuckinthepast77]

Re: Corner shops.

getting told off for 'rooting around' in the ice cream cabinet lol-we couldnt help that we had to have that jubbly that was stuck right at the very bottom of the cabinetnearly fell completely into those ice cream cabinets several times lol-good memories i can mention of course are the varied 10p mix ups,mars bars for 12p,cans of sun charm or panda cola for 20p and the whole spectrum of other tasty treats that were kind on the stomach but not so kind on the teeth

[AmethystWitch]

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I have books 1 - 30 and then 6 others which are random :S Not sure how I managed that, as I was trying to collect them in sequence! lol The covers are raised and that's another thing that attracted me to them! The colours and the artwork on the front! I'm also an art addict They're quite old now, so you can pick them up dead cheap on Ebay and Amazon etc

[darren]

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Wow how nice are these mate.
can u send me one.heh.

i never really thought of corner shops doing books and how beautiful these look.
how many have you in total mate.
looks like these images on the front are raised.
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When I was about 10, I used to love running down the street to the shop on the corner. Every week once my dad had given me some pocket money, I'd go to the little book shop and look through all the Goosebump books there! I decided to collect them all!! lol Every week I'd buy a different one I still have them and am gonna start a re read soon!

[AmethystWitch]

Re: Corner shops.

When I was about 10, I used to love running down the street to the shop on the corner. Every week once my dad had given me some pocket money, I'd go to the little book shop and look through all the Goosebump books there! I decided to collect them all!! lol Every week I'd buy a different one I still have them and am gonna start a re read soon!

[amethyst]

Re: Corner shops.

When I was a kid my local sweet shop infact we had 2 on the same street turned back to houses in the late 70,s.The butcher is now a hairdresser,we had a post office once that closed down in the 70,s,which is now a house.Only thing left which stayed the same is the dentist.

[darren]

Re: Corner shops.

corner shop i know it sells just sweets drinks and newspaprs.
its not actually on a corner but still qualifies die to what it sells.
but yes corner shops are not meant to sell everything.

i can remember coming home from school there was a corner shop only a minute up the road i used to get sherbert dips and that stuff that crackled in your mouth.

no toiletries etc.

[themilkman]

Re: Corner shops.

Corner shops aren't how we remember them.

Now they seem to sell all sorts of everything, sweets, toiletries, food, cleaning products etc but charge a much higher price than the nearest well known supermarket.
Lets put it this way, talking to the owner of a corner shop that I use which is about 3 miles away from the nearest mainstream supermarket......we inflate the prices coz it's easier for some people to come here and shop than travel to a supermarket.

[Retrogames]

Re: Corner shops.

I wonder if kids still use corner shops like we used to? Sometimes I got as much fun out of buying little rubbish pocket money bits and bobs from the local shops as I did heading into town for bigger purchases. Bouncy balls, panini stickers, coloured pens, those orange plastic egg and bubble gum machines outside. Made my day.

There is a sweet shop on my local rank of shops, my 4 year old sees going there after the park (opposite our house) as a real treat. The interesting thing compared to our days is that the shop just sells sweets and drinks, the owner said that there's no money in newspapers or magazines let alone toys, so many kids get these from the weekly supermarket run that he's only sold sweets and drinks for two years. The local newsagent closed for similar reasons, so to get a comic or paper is a fifteen minute walk or a drive into town. From my perspective it's cheaper, my boy asks for these awful £5 'comic and tat' things when he sees them, i'd rather do a couple of weeks of 20p mixes and then get him a decent toy for a tenner every now and again.

Worth noting that there's a high school on the same road, now those teens spend a fortune in there!

[darren]

Re: Corner shops.

with the corner shops i remember us having in the last ten yrs i got talking to the people behind the counter and they said very few kids came in compared to the eighties like we did.

I wonder if kids still use corner shops like we used to? Sometimes I got as much fun out of buying little rubbish pocket money bits and bobs from the local shops as I did heading into town for bigger purchases. Bouncy balls, panini stickers, coloured pens, those orange plastic egg and bubble gum machines outside. Made my day.

[Trickyvee]

Re: Corner shops.

I wonder if kids still use corner shops like we used to? Sometimes I got as much fun out of buying little rubbish pocket money bits and bobs from the local shops as I did heading into town for bigger purchases. Bouncy balls, panini stickers, coloured pens, those orange plastic egg and bubble gum machines outside. Made my day.

[darren]

Re: Corner shops.

funny enough we still have a shop mackles you call it and although its not an actual corner sop its the same size as one.

its been around since before i was born and sells all the old sweets corner shops did.
You have sweets i those big clear screwtop containers.

you an ask for a pound a half pound etc.
they still weigh the on the old fashioned scales.


its never changed ever while all other shops have.

although we have had many corner shops in my town.

I could not agree more, Darren. I live in aarea that is quite close to a Tourist Area and neighbouring town has lot's of Tourist type shops. On going there last time I discoverd a great little shop that sold all sorts of food - just like Corner Shops used to be.

Just being there and discovering all the differing stock they had, what major Supermarkets don't have - really took me back to the 1980s and I have often thought about it like so since and rememberd more and more how that Corner Shops were when they had so many differing items that had a great range of goods all in one shop.

It is times like, recalling Corner Shops like so in the 1970s to 1990s I recall with fondness and think how great it is that this was possible in these respects and how unique in differing way's too.

80sChav

[Avahi1057]

Re: Corner shops.

We didn't have a corner shop that was literally on a corner, but we had one that I imagine fitted the bill?

It sold sweets by the weight out of big glass jars, it also sold toys like matchbox cars and airfix models. It probably sold standard stuff too like chocolate , mags and cigarettes. I was just a little kid at the time so I only had eyes for what I wanted (namely the sweets and the cars!)

It was a strange sort of shop by todays generic standard. It had a glass counter running the entire perimeter of the shop and all the merchandise was packed against the walls, right up as high as the roof. There was nothing in the center of the shop. The idea was you pointed and bought.

The interior looked pretty similar to that shop from "Open All Hours". In fact there was even a door round the back leading to the house where the owner lived!

They don't seem to make them like that anymore unfortunately

[80sChav]

Re: Corner shops.

these corner shops built communities.

I could not agree more, Darren. I live in aarea that is quite close to a Tourist Area and neighbouring town has lot's of Tourist type shops. On going there last time I discoverd a great little shop that sold all sorts of food - just like Corner Shops used to be.

Just being there and discovering all the differing stock they had, what major Supermarkets don't have - really took me back to the 1980s and I have often thought about it like so since and rememberd more and more how that Corner Shops were when they had so many differing items that had a great range of goods all in one shop.

It is times like, recalling Corner Shops like so in the 1970s to 1990s I recall with fondness and think how great it is that this was possible in these respects and how unique in differing way's too.

80sChav

[xmark1234]

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our corner shop was a good way from where i lived but every day use to jump on me bike and go get the great 80s sweets and 80s toys loved it