just drove past and its a spar now.....generations of chavs have bought there anual holiday clobber from this icon of fashion,it only seems like yesterday when i was getting my oxford bags and star jumper....its a sad day:(

noticed it when we came up on Good Friday, taxi driver us took us up Granville Road to Manor Top and then down Mansfield, I assumed it had been changed awhile ago. Used to shop there myself when I first left home 20 years ago, and then went to Manor Top chippy for my greasy chips. But Spar next to Somerfield...........it is still Somerfield innit, can remember when it was Gateway.

.generations of chavs have bought there anual holiday clobber from this icon of fashion

Postscript: but I'm not a Chav and never have been, don't want anyone getting the wrong idea, was an early punk for quite awhile.

Originally posted by kirky
just drove past and its a spar now.....generations of chavs have bought there anual holiday clobber from this icon of fashion,it only seems like yesterday when i was getting my oxford bags and star jumper....its a sad day:( I remember that shop well my mum used to go in a lot.:)

Sad, but clearly inevitable.
In recent years it did seem to be awfully out of touch with what people were actually wearing. I used to loook at the window models and try to imagine who would wear such stuff.

Was this the shop with the yellow windows? The glass I mean. If so, it always looked very odd to me.

Originally posted by kirky
just drove past and its a spar now.....generations of chavs have bought there anual holiday clobber from this icon of fashion,it only seems like yesterday when i was getting my oxford bags and star jumper....its a sad day:(

Kirky, I'm sure I've seen you in there buying a "tank top" jumper? And that was only last year. :)

Seriously though…..it's the passing of an era.

Originally posted by stevie1957
Kirky, I'm sure I've seen you in there buying a "tank top" jumper? And that was only last year. :)

Seriously though…..it's the passing of an era.

He was only in there because the Oxfam shop was closed :P

The one in Woodseats closed years ago and is now a charity shop for St Lukes Hospice...didn't realise other shops survived albeit for only a while longer....

Originally posted by shieshuk
The one in Woodseats closed years ago and is now a charity shop for St Lukes Hospice...didn't realise other shops survived albeit for only a while longer....

I'd better stop pulling Kirky's leg...he cleans my windows....:)

Originally posted by stevie1957
I'd better stop pulling Kirky's leg...he cleans my windows....:)

well i thought i might do when i saw you were from woodthorpe:)

Originally posted by Bushbaby
Sad, but clearly inevitable.
In recent years it did seem to be awfully out of touch with what people were actually wearing. I used to loook at the window models and try to imagine who would wear such stuff.

yeah but it was ideal for baby clothes,came in very handy for me when my first two kids came on the scene