Lost Retail Chains

[robertpool]

My dad was a van driver for furniture removals Gordons

I remember Sturrocks Steel

Tunnocks in Polmadie

But my favourite was The Newsagent in Gorbals Cross called "Ralstons"


Hardly chains I know!

Gorbals Cross (with Newsagents?)


Gorbals Cross by Robert Pool's Glasgow Collection, on Flickr

[Wee Harry]

Terrific, I got my first 10 new pence from Mr Ralston!

[Doug]

Anyone mentioned Goldbergs?

Absolutely, my wife and I used to enjoy shopping there, great shop it was !

[Doug]

I remember Jackson the Tailor, they had shops in the city centre, a bit like Burtons and how about Brighter Homes they had decorating shops about Glasgow. You also had Grants furniture shop in Jamaica Street, everyone went there for their first 3 piece suite (I was the store manager) and what about Habitat, when it opened everyone crowded in just to buy mugs !! and you had Cecil Gee the mens shop, it was all the rage for trendy young guys (like me :))

[calamity]

Captol freezers shops
Sellyns
Templetons
Cochranes
Galbraiths
Russell stores
Graftons
Peacocks
City Bakeries
Weaver to Wearer
True Form shoes
Bayne and Ducket
Manfields
Saxone
Littlewoods
Virgo
Bambers
Bus Stop
Bata
Gordons
Chelsea Girl
Dido
Trerons

[Wee Harry]

Chelsea Girl, was agreat shop for fellers, my current girlfriends at that time used to shop there and I would sit on the wee chair watching others trying out their outfits beyond the saloon doors, I could see for myself the top and bottom thirds and it was a challenge to imagine or effect a way of viewing the troso.

C'mon I was only fourteen, fifteen, seventeen and more recently thirty seven at Bravissimo!

[calamity]

Wee Harry, no wonder ye hiv that name, probably stunted yer growth

[Delmont St Xavier]

Chelsea Girl, was agreat shop for fellers, my current girlfriends at that time used to shop there and I would sit on the wee chair watching others trying out their outfits beyond the saloon doors, I could see for myself the top and bottom thirds and it was a challenge to imagine or effect a way of viewing the troso.

C'mon I was only fourteen, fifteen, seventeen and more recently thirty seven at Bravissimo!

I must have been sitting beside you! I remember being in a shop in Maryhill Road and a girlfriend at the time went in to try something on, the curtain wasn't made of thick material and everyone in the shop could see her changing and the outline of her terrific figure. It was amazing the amount of men who would volunteer to go into that shop with wives, girlfriends and happily wait whilst they were in the changing room....

[Boxer6]

yes it was. We our staff Christmas night out there when it was The Sgian Dubh

What does Sgian mean?
Dubh I take it is black as in Dublin?

I can't see anyone's answered this for you Bridie; "sgian" or "sghian" is knife or blade, and "dubh" is indeed black - apparently, it can also mean "hidden", as in hidden within the stocking/sock I suppose.

[Fat Cat]

Captol freezers shops
Sellyns
Templetons
Cochranes
Galbraiths
Russell stores
Graftons
Peacocks
City Bakeries
Weaver to Wearer
True Form shoes
Bayne and Ducket
Manfields
Saxone
Littlewoods
Virgo
Bambers
Bus Stop
Bata
Gordons
Chelsea Girl
Dido
Trerons

Cantors.

[calamity]

oh aye Cantors .
DER
Grants
High Walk Shoe Shop
Arnott Simpson
Maceys where the old M&S used to be before Chelsea Girl
Latters
Biggars

[Wee Harry]

Anyway, I am Wee Harry by the fact that my dad was Big Harry one of nine kids from the Gorbals Cross in the 1930's

He toid me once he took up smoking at 8yrs old, gambling at 10yrs old and winchin wimmin at 12yrs old, he then went on to say he was not 100% sure of this but it was any one of those activities at any one of those ages!

[mercury]

Jessops

[weegeordie]

Granada Tv & Video Rental Done my apprenticeship there..
FineFare Supermarkets mid 80s

[calamity]

Ashley Russell and C&V both fur shops in town...
Timothy Whites chemist
Paige
Quicksave
Cockburns chemists
Birrells sweetie shops
Crest wallpaper
Dido umberellas