Lost Retail Chains

[Bridie]

Telfers fishmongers

[Dexter St. Clair]

[hound dog]

Lot of names here that I'd forgotten. Don't think anyone's mentioned the Gall's chain - one in Byres Road and also one in the wee lane leading to the old Partick X subway (now Kelvin Hall). Birss of Partick - think that might have been where I got taken for my school blazer and badge when i started Dowanhill Primary in the dim and distant past?

Lawrence the furniture store and also Walkers of Partick - ladies clothes shop owned and managed by Miss Walker. No rummaging thru' the rails in there - you had to wait to be attended to and you told the assistant the kind of thing you were looking for (e.g. a winter coat in a certain colour) and she would check out the stock and bring you one or two items to try on There was also Catherine's of Partick - another clothes shop.

That stretch of Dumbarton Road was a real shopping mecca back then - oh and you had a wee newsagent/tobacco shop (I think) near to the railway bridge. It had one of these signs - was it " The Pickwick, the Owl and the Waverley pen come as a boon and a blessing to men"?

[Mori]

Is there any of the Gas or Electricity showrooms still in existence ?, i remember the old gas showroom in George Square in the 70s/80s, used to have a parts dept in the basement where you could buy heater and cooker parts, there used to be one on Victoria rd too



I dont think there are any of the Electric showrooms left either.





BT ? used to be one in Buchanan st, remember buying a phone from there before the internet came along.

[BTJustice]

I think I have said this on here before and nobody could confirm but I'm sure the British gas shop on Victoria road (direct over from the station and now a Bernardo's)had the shops name spelled out across the pavement in terasso tiles.

I remember going to the launch of the Raleigh Vektar in Tor-toys on Clarkston road, I think they had a branch on Dumbarton road as well.

Late 80's I remember all the girls going mad for Razzle Dazzle, I think that was a chain?

[dingdong]

Any one remeber Lennies the bakers one shop on Maryhill rd another at top off the hill of the hill on Sandbank st my gran worked in the one on Maryhill rd was great when we were going to maryhill park to play football always stopped in ther for some off the biscuits from the broken biscuit box then a bottle of Barrs raspberryade from cafe next to it.

[Bridie]

True-Form - look at the window display



Mitchell
J. Sears & Co. - is that the same Sears as NY?

[Dexter St. Clair]

No

The company has no connection with Sears, Roebuck, as Americans might assume, but grew out of a shoe manufacturing and retailing business based in the English Midlands.

No chain of shops in Great Britain bears the name of Sears, but the company operates 3,800 shops under other names, making it one of the country's largest retailers. Its most famous single store is Selfridges in London, but its main strength is in nationwide chains of shops specializing in shoes and clothing. Its 2,000 shoe shops, operating mainly as Freeman Hardy Willis, Curtess, and Saxone, account for one in five pairs of shoes bought in Great Britain. Other chains owned by Sears include Miss Selfridge and Wallis in women's wear, Fosters and Horne Brothers in menwear, Adams Childrenswear in children's clothing, and Olympus Sport and Millet's Leisure in sporting goods. Through Freemans, Sears also owns the third-largest mail order business in Britain.

from the Beauty of Gillingham
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/sears-plc-history/

[Fossil]

True-Form - look at the window display



Mitchell
J. Sears & Co. - is that the same Sears as NY?

have they new pictures on TVM now?

[Vinegar Tom]

I think I have said this on here before and nobody could confirm but I'm sure the British gas shop on Victoria road (direct over from the station and now a Bernardo's)had the shops name spelled out across the pavement in terasso tiles.

BTJ - I remember that too, but I'm sure it was brass letters inlaid in the granolithic pavement? But I could be wrong?

[BTJustice]

I think I have said this on here before and nobody could confirm but I'm sure the British gas shop on Victoria road (direct over from the station and now a Bernardo's)had the shops name spelled out across the pavement in terasso tiles.

BTJ - I remember that too, but I'm sure it was brass letters inlaid in the granolithic pavement? But I could be wrong?

Im glad somebody else remembers and I didnt just make it up. As far as I can remember as well, the letters were on the pavement after the shop closed and became the Bernardo's shop.

[banjo]

comet biting the dust...whos next.

[floweredpig]

Some menswear establishments spring to mind;

Wrygges ,Dunn and Co. ,Hepworths ,Fosters and Mr Bojangles.

[Delmont St Xavier]

Claude Alexander, Bayne & Duckett, Kirkwoods and many more from bygone days and many more to come....

[Josef]

comet biting the dust...whos next.

Funnily enough, we passed one of their stores at the weekend and I, slightly surprised, commented that I thought they had gone bust several years ago.