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Guildford Crescent swimming pool
Being dragged around m&s by my mum and hating it. But then... Sausage beans and chips in BHS cafe making up for it.
The 3d simulator thing in Virtual Reality which looked amazing as a 10 year old but I've no idea what was going on when I tried it
Going to a butchers to buy meat in an arcade. It sounds positively Victorian now
The Gadget Shop when the capitol arcade opened
The running track in David Morgan's sports dept
Not the city centre but I miss the Monico cinema.
Magical place. Was the first cinema my grandmother went to in the 30s and the first cinema my father visited when we was a kid in the late 40s / early 50s
Sad when it closed in the early 2000s.
Two lanes of traffic on Queen St and the narrow pavements on either side heaving with shoppers on a Saturday, many walking outside the kerbs in the gutter with cars, vans & buses whizzing past.
Going into The Empire pool and giving your ticket to an old small guy with a bald head who would then give you a metal cage which had a rack on bottom to put your shoes, then you'd hang your clothes over the rest of it like a massive caged coat hanger.
Then the walk through freezing cold water to clean your feet you'd have to do before you reached the pool
The Prince of Wales cinema adverts for films such as...
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farmhouse grill in the great british burger or wimpeys...
spillers for my hip hop fix i still know ashley to this day the grand daughter who owns it now
going to see santa in david morgan or howells...
going to look at the raleigh burners and mongoose diamond back kuwahara bob haro iron horse and other bmx in the bike shops
beaties toy shop they had like a train set running round the shop up high and open toys so you could play before you buy
and lots more
Fantastic
Those posters, even the titles of the films, used to do it for me as a kid in those days.
The Russ Meyer films, Vixen, valley of the ultravixens I remember.
Never got to watch any in the cinema itself but caught up on them since
Often looked around the inside since whilst supping a pint in Wetherspoons wondering.
Beautiful building.