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Remembering the High Street: A Nostalgic Look at Famous Names by Gordon...
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- ISBN
- 9781844680986
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Remembering the High Street: a Nostalgic Look at Famous Names
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books LTD
- Item Width
- 156mm
- Subject
- History, Business
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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A nostalgic trip down the high street, remembering once famous names such as Woolworth's, Athena and C&;A and also featuring current favourites, including the ubiquitous Tesco and Marks &; Spencer which started life as a penny market stall to become a retail giant but has had to adapt to survive. Full of factboxes and quirky facts about much-loved shops and the people behind them just who was W.H. Smith and what did those famous initials stand for? A fascinating book which charts the rise and, in too many cases, fall of our favourite shops.There used to be butcher, baker, grocer, greengrocer, draper, Boots, ironmonger, pub, W H Smith, cafe, bank, Freeman Hardy and Willis, jeweller, Marks and Spencer, furniture shop, hotel, bookseller, off licence, haberdasher, Woolworth's, confectioner, cobbler, tobacconist, electrical showroom, Burton's, gas showroom, ladies' fashions, gentlemen's outfitters, and more, and maybe a department store, and several versions of some. What do we have now? Pound shop, charity shop, building society branch, betting shop, coffee shop, charity shop, shop boarded up, building society branch, sandwich shop, shop boarded up, kebab takeaway, charity shop, card shop, Indian takeaway, mobile phone shop - we exaggerate but make the point. So what has gone wrong - if it is wrong?The author discusses these and many other topics, and answers hundreds of burning questions. Whatever happened to the Home and Colonial, Timothy White's, Lipton's, the District Bank, the Fifty Shilling Tailor? Who were Jesse Boot, Montague Burton, W H Smith? How did the Co-op start? Whatever happened to all those things we used to buy in those shops in the high street - Balkan Sobranie, Caley Tray, Oxydol, Phillips Stick-a-soles, Icilma Cream, Mansion Polish, Mrs Peek's Puddings? Does any girl still dream of going to work in her Maidenform bra? 70 b/w illustartions
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Pen & Sword Books LTD
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Remembering the High Street: a Nostalgic Look at Famous Names
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Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History, Business
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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234mm
Item Width
156mm
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United Kingdom
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