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Are there any old timey electrical/electronic component shops left in the city ?
I'm looking for the sort of boffin place which sells old style switches etc instead of the modern expensive, individual bagged stuff Maplins does.

I know of RS Components but they don't stock what i'm after.

Indeed, Landressy Street, and Bridgeton itself, is hardly that welcoming either.

Was the Keystane Pub closed by order ? I seem to have a vague recollection of reading something to that effect taped to it's door.

I've used it a few times. I think it's going to be moved though which is sad, it's a nice building inside & out.
Supposedly it will be put to other uses, but it seems to do rather well being a library.

Two different taxi drivers told me, must be true

Latest i've heard this is to be repaired not demolished.

there's was a cobblers on Olympia st Bridgeton, don't know if its still there. My last visit to it was 3 years ago a few months befor my grandfather passed away. It was the first shop that you come to at the station, certain there was a barber's next door to it as well It's still there, I got him t...

I miss green & yellow buses, and i'm not even an exile

The road closures are overkill. They could have opened up Olympia St to all traffic (not just buses & taxis), but no, the whole bloody cross is closed.

HollowHorn wrote:

Monument wrote:the village.

I must admit I raised an eyebrow when I read that too.

My mum was a lift operator. Don't know where though.

2HB wrote:Not sure ,i was too busy stealing calendars.

Colin Baxter's ?

Most people tend to have a simplistic view of medical stuff, often taken directly from what they've seen on some duff tv soap or drama. Heart Attack = Theatrically clutching chest Disabled = Wheelchair Registered blind = White stick & dog Mental illness = Howling at the moon and dangerous They n...

Happy New Year

The gutted section has mostly gone but they haven't touched the old bit. What do you reckon, will it be saved ?