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Muttley said:
I must have been in there when I was a child but don't remember. I do remember Tower Records being there.
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Lillywhites? Is that still there? I went in there when I was about 19 after I had just joined the BTP with wages to burn. I bought a punchbag there, but I didn’t think at the time, I lived in a council flat with two bedrooms and had nowhere really to put it. I asked Mum if I could hang it from the light socket, and I think she probably slapped me round the head. I ended up resting it against a chest of drawers in my bedroom and using it as a kick bag or a punchbag kneeling down.
 
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Wonder what 4 is… 🤔

'Muriel's in', 'sourced from AliExpress', or 'sold for less elsewhere'…
 
Used to go in Swan & Edgar’s, then look in windows of Garrards and Aquasputum, up to The Needlewoman Shop, Hamleys , Dickens & Jones and finishing up in Liberty’s. Most of which no longer exist or not located in Regent Street any longer. Used to treat myself to some decent loose tea in Jackson’s in Piccadilly very occasionally.
 
Duke of Cheese said:
Lillywhites? Is that still there? I went in there when I was about 19 after I had just joined the BTP with wages to burn. I bought a punchbag there, but I didn’t think at the time, I lived in a council flat with two bedrooms and had nowhere really to put it. I asked Mum if I could hang it from the light socket, and I think she probably slapped me round the head. I ended up resting it against a chest of drawers in my bedroom and using it as a kick bag or a punchbag kneeling down.
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Lillywhites still exists but it is owned by Mike Ashley these days so the name isn't really worth the amount of plastic in the signage any more.
 
Duke of Cheese said:
Lillywhites? Is that still there? I went in there when I was about 19 after I had just joined the BTP with wages to burn. I bought a punchbag there, but I didn’t think at the time, I lived in a council flat with two bedrooms and had nowhere really to put it. I asked Mum if I could hang it from the light socket, and I think she probably slapped me round the head. I ended up resting it against a chest of drawers in my bedroom and using it as a kick bag or a punchbag kneeling down.
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Yes, pretty sure that's still there, I've never been in there, I'm not remotely sporty!
 
Battiola73 said:
Used to go in Swan & Edgar’s, then look in windows of Garrards and Aquasputum, up to The Needlewoman Shop, Hamleys , Dickens & Jones and finishing up in Liberty’s. Most of which no longer exist or not located in Regent Street any longer. Used to treat myself to some decent loose tea in Jackson’s in Piccadilly very occasionally.
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It's changed so much these days. Liberty's is still there but its not really my cup of tea. Just got John Lewis in Oxford Street now, I use that a lot. There's a few nice shops in Regent Street but it's a different world these days. Hamley's is still there, got so many memories of being taken there as a child.

I don't go to Oxford Street very often, I'd rather go to Westfield (either Shepherds Bush or Stratford) as its under cover and there's a proper food hall.

And of course we had the 2 huge C&As in Oxford Street, they're Primark now. I don't buy many clothes there but their homeware is great.
 
Army & Navy in Victoria, Whiteley’s, Arding & Hobbs, Gamages, Marshall & Snelgrove, Barkers of Kensington …Proper department stores all gone now. My Dad was catering manager at Marshall & Snelgrove in Oxford Street. He used to let me wander round the toy department after closing time (I was 23 at the time) and choose a toy or two. He always said he paid for them, but I don’t think he did. Oxford Street in the late 1960s was full of great shops. Now it is full of not much at all. Nothing much for the looters to steal any longer in many UK city high streets. Nottingham where I live now is absolutely awful for city centre shops nowadays, too.
 

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