Maplins in Hillsborough ... What was it?

Can anybody tell me what the Maplins store was originally ... it looks too modern to have been a shop!

Can anybody tell me what the Maplins store was originally ... it looks too modern to have been a shop!

Before it was Maplin Electronics, it wasn't there (it was a purpose build for Maplin Electronics:thumbsup:).

Before it was Maplins Electronics, it was a mini 1950s style Holiday camp!

Boom Boom! Er, I mean... Hi De Hi!

*gets coat*

Thanks SCCSUX ... any idea when it opened and what was there before it?

Was a car garage before Maplin, before the garage it used to be a cinema but was knocked down and had the garage built on it. The shop have slide open main windows and if you look at the carpark you can see were the pumps used to be.

There was a cinema opposite the Barracks at one point called The Phoenix

The cinema was named after the owners of the Cinema. It showed movies such as Blackboard Jungle, and Jerry Lee Lewis movies. This cinema was just one of many in the Hillsborough/Wadsley Bridge area and believe it or not there was a policeman who (as part of his regular duties) used to visit them all looking for underage cinema goers !

On one occasion him and his sergeant visited Hillsboro' park cinema.The film that was on was "Nudes of the World " an X rated film.Inside the cinema they found a young lad who was 15 years old watching the film.

After interviewing him ,the manager and the cashier the final result was the cashier got fined in court 7/6d (371/2 p) and a warning.

The petrol station (where Maplins is now) replaced the Phoenix cinema, which must have closed in the 1960s.

Before it was Maplins Electronics, it was a mini 1950s style Holiday camp!

 

Boom Boom! Er, I mean... Hi De Hi!

 

*gets coat*

Could you just keep your coat on permanently when making jokes on the forum. It would save loads of time in you leaving the thread.

This is obviously not the maplins Iam thinking of .Where is it?

This is obviously not the maplins Iam thinking of .Where is it?

The Maplins referred to in this thread is on Langsett Rd opposite

Hillsborough Barracks.

As stated above. There was a petrol station there before Maplins

The Phoenix cinema closed in the late 60s

Remember it well for the double seats, that were always in

demand for courting couples. It was a theatre in the 1920s

This is obviously not the maplins Iam thinking of .Where is it?

There are only two in Sheffield, one opposite the Peace Gardens and the Hillsborough one which is opposite Morrisons top deck car park, and yes it was a petrol station before Maplins opened.