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GTB · Bushton Bushwacker Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 2206 Status:

Whilst in Calne today I was waiting by the old Buckeridges shop looking up at the High Street. I remembered that on the end of the row there used to be a butchers shop, then there was a record shop (where they would play the record before you bought it just so you knew that you really liked it), then there is Lloyd's bank, The jewellers (that's been there for quite a while now) then there was Jeary's the chemist.

Doesn't things change?? Big Grin

There is a debate going on at the moment in the Calne Needs section about a balance of shops but 25 years ago there really was a good balance. What went wrong??

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Tezza · Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:00 am Post subject: Wilkins Toy shop

Martin Peck · Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:21 pm Post subject:

Yes I remember the ginger haired guy he used to set up the gears on my bike for nothing
Martin

jolou39 · Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject:

I used to get Pippa dolls from Wilkins......I used to think it was the best toy shop in the world!

My brother used to buy lots of jokes and tricks - I still remember my aunts ciggie blowing up after he put something in it!

We have lost so many shops - I remember the record shop, a vital part of my early teenage years.

Dixons was where I got my first bra! and Europa News which only disappeared a few years ago....

Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

i can just remember dixons.what was the name of the shop above shirleys you had to go up stairs it was where i got my ears pierced.

walked through the town today first time in a while and was shocked at the amount of shops boarded up at the moment.seems nearly to be every other one.

any one also remember tyhe newsagents up chuchstreet not far past the cons club if i remember correctly it was the only place you were able to buy ciggerettes from despite being in school uniform.

Biggles · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:11 am Post subject:

think that newagents was called Carpenters, remmeber going in there lots as a kid

Local lass · Calnetalk Oracle Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 4792 Status:

i knew it began with c but i kept thinking carters.
its not stilll there is it?

Biggles · Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:03 pm Post subject:

its next door (or next door but one) to the old cons club / new chinese in church street, its now a house.

carters was and still is up London Road next to the old filling station

Tezza · Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: Wilkins Toy shop

Bonnie · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:56 pm Post subject:

Wow... I just remembered Wilkinsons toy shop. I used to love going there with my mum on a saturday morning.

I can rearly clearly remember walking out of there one day and going into the butchers that was next door (park houses?) and passing some punks with spikey pink hair. I must have been about 4 years old, I think it was the first time I ever saw punks and thought they were really cool.

Talking of Parkhouses butchers, the old chaps that worked in there were great, and always seemed really friendly, I loved the bulls head on the wall. Its a shame all these places have been destroyed by the faceless supermarkets we are forced to use now... nevermind.