Capitol centre

[Tuerto]

Re: Capitol centre

It's just up from Tesco, before you get to that courtyard area with premier inn and other businesses. Today when I went in it was a little obscured by scaffolding.

I thought that it has closed down and was now under the banner of Mike Ashley's online empire, specifically when Howells (House of Fraser) closed down.

[Trigger]

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I thought that it has closed down and was now under the banner of Mike Ashley's online empire, specifically when Howells (House of Fraser) closed down.

Store is still Flannels but yea it's all under Frasers now. I was the only person in there earlier, same when I later went to Slaters. Hate looking around places like that being the only one :hehe:.

[Armitage Shanks]

Re: Capitol centre

Before st David's 2 opened, they had all the top price jeweller's there and nice cafés upstairs.
Of course the main attraction was Virgin records

[Tuerto]

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Store is still Flannels but yea it's all under Frasers now. I was the only person in there earlier, same when I later went to Slaters. Hate looking around places like that being the only one :hehe:.

Yeah, you almost feel obliged to buy something. Cheapest thing I. There is probably £100

[Henry Hill]

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I don’t know which store you’re referring to, but the answer is definitely no.

:hehe:

Said with such authority as well. :hehe:

[Optimistic Nick]

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I remember mostly going to the cinema there and was it virgin that was there?

The gadget shop and virtual reality were in there, two of the best stores in town for a kid. And yeah a virgin. And a Jaeger later I think. Used to have some nice shops. Did it have a food hall too? Or was that queen's west? And yeah there was an odeon in there. I hadn't realised that had closed actually.

But I loved virtual reality. Little computer games shop. They had a virtual reality headset game thing, which was pretty incredible for 1992 or whenever it was.

Sad to see what it's become, but it's inevitable really. I fear the high street is in terminal decline and on top, the centre of town has shifted away from there.

[NYCBlue]

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Flannels? If so that's still on Churchill way yes.

Although not specifically a men's store, I can't think what else you could mean.

I'm going back a long time. It was on the corner of Park Place.

[NYCBlue]

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I'm going back a long time. It was on the corner of Park Place.

I remembered it. Austin Reed.

[The Lone Gunman]

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Said with such authority as well. :hehe:

And I was right. Austin Reed on Queen Street closed a long time ago. They went bust in 2016.

Made a bit of a fool of yourself once more. Should have stuck to your frame-by-frame screenshots showing footballers defying the laws of physics.

[light up the darkness]

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The Hari Krishna guys had a vegetarian cafe at one point. The veggie curry was delicious

[splott parker]

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I remembered it. Austin Reed.

Wasn’t Austin Reed on the corner of Windsor Place? A Poundshop type store was there recently.

[light up the darkness]

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Wasn’t Austin Reed on the corner of Windsor Place? A Poundshop type store was there recently.

Yes that was where the Austin Reed shop was

[Culver Blue]

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There was a Benetton bottom of that arcade mid/late 90's?

The Central Bar ('spoons) is the only reason to go that end of town now.

[Tuerto]

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There was a Benetton bottom of that arcade mid/late 90's?

The Central Bar ('spoons) is the only reason to go that end of town now.

Benetton was the castle end of Queen St. Think you're thinking about Queens West? That place was knocked up in the 80s i think, I'm sure BHS was where superdrug is now. Upstairs was a food arcade that was tiered, i remember meeting a girl from school there and she suggested a 'Spud u like' (not a euphemism, sadly) needless to say it didn't last.

[Rjk]

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Flannels? If so that's still on Churchill way yes.

Although not specifically a men's store, I can't think what else you could mean.

I went in there once and they were charging £350 for basically a plain white tshirt. Never been back