Long lost shops of Bolton

As BHS closes its doors, in Bolton, this weekend, I was thinking about all the other shops, both chains and independent, that use to be in our once wonderful town.

C&A - (Dutch/German firm that closed all its UK stores due to higher competition from Primark and H&M)
Talibs - who didn't buy their jeans from there
Stolen from Ivor - always thought it was a very strange name
Timothy Whites - heard of the name but never knew what it was

I bought all my flares from C&A. I particularly remember a nice purple pair,that went very well with my two tone shoes. What a sight I was. I've destroyed all the evidence.

Ivor was the name of the guy who actually owned stolen from ivor and the reasoning behind it is the prices where that good you was stealing from him.

Genius.

Loved that shop.  Best job and best boss i ever had.  (Well both my bosses, Tony first and then gail who also had the grey mare in darcy!)

Timothy Whites was taken over by Boots.

It was on the corner of Newport and Great Moor Street's opposite the Wheat sheaf.

Never heard of any of hear places

Rumblelows.
Leccy Showrooms
Woolies there must be loads that have closed down.

Is Sweetens book shop still open?

Anyone remember Bullough's TV Rental?

Whiteheads, my mum used to love going to their tea shop, I got my first proper football boots from Gibsons sports on deansgate and used to get my records from Derek guests and if I was flush loved his cafe downstairs

Bulloughs name rings a bell.

http://g4aqb.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/bulloughs-tv-shops.html

Barb Dwyer wrote:Is Sweetens book shop still open?

It closed about 6 or 7 years ago - shame as I preferred Sweetens to the normal chain store book shops.

I only found out recently that in a previous life, Sweetens was actually a pub!

Was sweetens near McDonalds and Holland and Barrett's in town?

karlypants wrote:Was sweetens near McDonalds and Holland and Barrett's in town?

Yes

bwfc71 wrote:

Barb Dwyer wrote:Is Sweetens book shop still open?

It closed about 6 or 7 years ago - shame as I preferred Sweetens to the normal chain store book shops.

I only found out recently that in a previous life, Sweetens was actually a pub!

It was always going to close, after Amazon and Tesco started selling books for ridiculously cheap prices. 

Remember going to Sweetens to get Terry Pratchett to sign one of his new books.

Do cinemas like the Queen's, the Lido and the ABC count? Apparently at one time there were something like 50 cinemas in Bolton and the surrounding area, but these are the ones I remember - plus the Odeon of course.

y2johnny wrote:Ivor was the name of the guy who actually owned stolen from ivor and the reasoning behind it is the prices where that good you was stealing from him.

Genius.

Loved that shop.  Best job and best boss i ever had.  (Well both my bosses, Tony first and then gail who also had the grey mare in darcy!)

Correct Johnny. The company was set up by Ivor Hazan in the early seventies. At it's peak it had forty shops but nowadays there  is only one left in Stockport.

Sids butchers, Newport Street.

DER  ( Domestic Electrical Rentals )

Colourvision.

Colourvision was the one i was trying to think of last night. Was that exclusively rental and was it part of the coop at one point.

The UCP.