I used to go in here with my rather more daring friend. She bought a really stinky afghan (coat!) from there, plus patchouli. We used to nudge each other at the vibrators on display (when you were 15 in the 70s they were a bit of a novelty). I never really saw anyone buy anything, other than my friend and her coat, it was mostly a place for browsing, but the shop was going for what seemed like ages.

Anyone else used to go in there?

Anyone know when it first opened and when it finally closed?

Was it owned by a Sheffield person?

I can sorta remember it opening, as for the date? Hmm... just can't remember off hand '78 - '79?

yup i remember pippys :)

and smiffys down new the train station, poly etc

the goth / punk shop on the gallery above the markets

and the sheffield peace shop near the magic roundabout :)

Zinc, I remember it in 1974 so it was before that.

i was going to it in the mid 80s, maybe even late 80s

so it was going ahell of a long time for a hippy shop :)

Originally posted by alysonpeach
I used to go in here with my rather more daring friend. She bought a really stinky afghan (coat!) from there, plus patchouli. We used to nudge each other at the vibrators on display (when you were 15 in the 70s they were a bit of a novelty). I never really saw anyone buy anything, other than my friend and her coat, it was mostly a place for browsing, but the shop was going for what seemed like ages.

Anyone else used to go in there?

Anyone know when it first opened and when it finally closed?

Was it owned by a Sheffield person? yes it was owned by a sheffield person last time i heard of pip he was selling rock in blackpool.honest no joke lol:thumbsup:

Originally posted by roughy101
yes it was owned by a sheffield person last time i heard of pip he was selling rock in blackpool.honest no joke lol:thumbsup:

a lot of crackheads in blackpool like?


:D

I remember Pippys as a slightly scary shop that always made me feel fascinated yet slightly inadequate. I also remember the vibrators, weren't they sold as some sort of massage instrument for sore necks??
The 70s hey, innocent times

I'm sure it was still going in the early nineties, whilst I was at uni, and didn't it have a sister shop in Liverpool?
That was probably part of Quiggins though, and that got shut down (as far as I know) realatively recently :(

The shop in the gallery was Oblivion - I think the sign is still there.

I used to go in there mid to late 80's, mainly to buy hippy juice (patchouli oil) to drench my leather in :) but I also bought my first pack of Tarot Cards from there too :thumbsup:
The last I heard the bloke who ran Pippy's is indeed living in Blackpool :)

I seem to think it was still there early nineties, not much longer tho. The only thing I ever remember buying from there was Directions hair colour as it was the only place I could find it after Pulse closed.

I remember going out one night and someone broke into my mate's car in town and stole her leather, we found it the next day hanging on pip's rail lol thankfully she got it back without a prob!

Oblivion was more recent, didn't last anywhere near as long as pippy's (probably due to the bad management) That one did have a sister shop in Hull called Function 1 which I believe is also closed down now

They also sold odd bits of jewelery, and badges, i remember those puzzle rings, they'd bend out of shape easily and never seemed to go back together.

Originally posted by alysonpeach
Zinc, I remember it in 1974 so it was before that.

Jeez, I'm not that old, am I? :(

Was thinking about Oblivion the other day, was walking down to Quays through the market and all the signs for Oblivion are still there, still looking like it was years ago.

Not forgetting Void.

Oh the amount of velvet and I bought in all those places........

it was owned by pip hayman. he was always in josehines every nite . they even put a sign in the corner of josies saying pips corner.(that was in the 80's,)now theres some useless info for you.his daughter was always around town also,nikki if my memory is correct.(he was always next to the toilets,place where u could see everyone in the club. sure you'll sleep better with my info. hasta luego

Yeah I thought that shop was great. Bought a leather jacket from there in the late 80's. Not sure when it shut down though.

Used to love the smell in that place....

FAB cool shop. Bought 2 afghans coats from there and 3 leather jackets, but not all on the same day!!!! Always full of STUNNING girls on Saturday dinnertimes buying hippie juice. Sadly missed Sheffield institution........

Must have closed in about 94/95 as it was still there when I first came to Sheff as a student in 92.

Remember it well.

I too reckon it closed in the early-to-mid 1990s.

Used to sell jackets, badges, silver bangles (that you bought in groups of about 10), PVC trousers, 'poppers' and so on.

I actually used to go up the road to Pulse more often as they had a decent record section at the time, round toward the back of the shop where it was done out like a cavern.

Records, posters, hippy juice, ear-rings and so on. Big on Love and Peace, man and now, RSVP.

I'll take your last post as a compliment Goldenfleece and hope me and my mate were amongst the "stunning girls".

Who remembers the booby bell on the counter?

Did you actually press it?

I bought a Leather jacket, and other things from there. I remember joss sticks and hippy juice and racks of strange t shirts and leather thongs and things.
All the stock was packed in on the hangers so tight you had to wait to get out sometimes.

I used to proudly wear a white pippy's t shirt they were great.
There was also a Pippy's window in Rebels, with an advert for the place and a few examples behind.

And there was also a tiny fiat car which was sign written with Pippy's sheffield and liverpool.

I think that one of the women who worked there now has Roz on Abbey Lane at the woodseats end. I never asked her but I'm sure she used to work at pippy's.

Great Shop, great memories...:thumbsup:

Here is a pic Of me in about 1988 (http://www.borracho.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rock/joseFeliciano.jpg) With one of my Pippy's t-shirts on and a pippy's badge from the back of a jacket stuck on the bottom of my guitar { silver rectangle }

Originally posted by alysonpeach
I'll take your last post as a compliment Goldenfleece and hope me and my mate were amongst the "stunning girls".


Sure you were babe......and sure you STILL are!!

Originally posted by rocketman
Must have closed in about 94/95 as it was still there when I first came to Sheff as a student in 92.

Remember it well.

lol you mustve come to sheffield just as i left :(

i always used to walk past, not daring to go in (cos i was a shy, reserved type as a teenager :hihi: )......my mum saw me go in once and gave me a right bo##ocking!!

think i used to go in every day just for the hell of it to wind her up!:clap:

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Here is a pic Of me in about 1988 (http://www.borracho.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rock/joseFeliciano.jpg) With one of my Pippy's t-shirts on and a pippy's badge from the back of a jacket stuck on the bottom of my guitar { silver rectangle }
Love the hair!:headbang:

Used to regularly wander in and out buying random items of jewellery, T shirts, belts and stuff. It smelt great in there, but was a bit creepy at the back of the shop!

Me and me mate got our first leather jackets from Pippy's. We were still in school at the time and it was one of the shops we would always go in and have a wander around on a Saturday. It was still open a few years after we left school, so must have been around 94/95 that it shut down.

I loved Pippy's. I bought a puzzle ring from there and remember having to go back and this man with long, long hair putting it back together for me. I was really young... I remember my mum going with me!! :lol Pippy's was a formative part of my teen years! I so wanted an afghan coat and my mum wouldn't let me!!! LOL

Forgot about the belts ... they used to have a very large selection of decorative belt buckles with things like "Southern Comfort" or "Levi Strauss" on ... what was that all about? I had a puzzle ring too, a girl at school taught me how to do them.

I always went in pippys for my patchouli oil in the mid to late 70`s

MuddyCoffee, you're correct about the shop "Roz".

Roz was the blond girl with the most amazingly perky breasts who worked in Pippys. A lovely girl and a good mate of one of my ex-gf's.

I last spoke to her in her shop, probably 10 years ago, and haven't had cause to go to that end of Sheff since, so it's good to hear it's still there.

Originally posted by GrumpyGit
MuddyCoffee, you're correct about the shop "Roz".

Roz was the blond girl with the most amazingly perky breasts who worked in Pippys. A lovely girl and a good mate of one of my ex-gf's.
I last spoke to her in her shop, probably 10 years ago, and haven't had cause to go to that end of Sheff since, so it's good to hear it's still there.
Yes it's a brightly painted place and she appears to run it with a nice lady who I take to be her mum. It seems to do well, It's 100 yards from my house..

Most of the stuff in there tends to be girly or childrens clothes but I sometimes go in to buy coathangers or the occasional thermal Winter hat.

:clap: YAY! Pippy's holds so many memories for me, chiefly of which is , like many other folk, it was the place of purchase for my one and only leather bike jacket. Me and my brother got them as christmas presents around 1986 and that was that, mine finally gave up the ghost ten years later having been around the british Isles and europe, just getting softer and more comefy by the day....
Saturdays meant a trip to town before the match, call in pippys for joss sticks or badges, and then after tea a mad dash down to the Wap... always remember a guy on a stag do being soundly thrashed by a truly IMMENSE strippogram woman with a whip and a plastic club..... priceless! The guy was about 5 foot six and 8 stone wet through!

Wow yes I remember Pippys well. Bought my smelly afghan from there £50 in 1982. Ive still got it ha ha! Cant bring myself to get rid at all.

The shop had a beautiful stink of incense. A better place was "Bringing it all back home" on Glossop Road. Really cool shop!!!

Caz

I used to work there for about a year, it was OK to work there apart from the owners pervy comments, believe it or not that small tiny shop had eight security cameras installed. I had my suspicions that it wasn't just the shoplifters he was looking at!!!!

Hi
I used to work at Pippys for about three years in the late 80's it must have been. Your right, he was called Pip, had lots of friends in high places he did. He was (as littleboo rightly states) a perv who used to try and put his hand up our skirts especially when we went in the tiny stockroom upstairs which was reached by four steps!:gag:

Roz is indeed working at 'Roz's' on Abbey Lane at Woodseats, I still bump into her now and then.. Her shop is doing well and stocks some trendy clothes at reasonable prices for the young girls.

Pippy's reminds me of :
Having to unwrap reams of jackets and squeeze them on the rails having put handwritten tags on everything
Hating rock music then learning to love it (Aerosmith especially as that was Roz's favourite and she used to play it all the time)
Some great nights out
Being young!!!!!

I also worked there around 1986/1988 and the guy was a perv! Bizarre to hear from other ex-staff.The Perv's missus worked there too,Jan,who wouldn't know work if it hit her in the chops :hihi:
Rocky Horrors appeared and blew Pippy's out of the water (I worked there too for many years).

They also sold odd bits of jewelery, and badges, i remember those puzzle rings, they'd bend out of shape easily and never seemed to go back together.
I rember buying one of those rings from pippys in 1974, everyone seemed to have one at the time, also used to buy Joss? sticks from there. Also had a fantastic afghan waistcoat (well I thought it fantastic at the time).

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: call in pippys for joss sticks or badges, and then after tea a mad dash down to the Wap...!
Wow, the Wap, now that really holds some great memories for me, used to spend every weekend in there during the 70s

Wow, the Wap, now that really holds some great memories for me, used to spend every weekend in there during the 70s
well search for the various wap threads and add your memories :)

What was that place called which was near Cole Bros in the early 90s. you had to go up some dodgy stairs and it stank of patchouli. I used to go in there for my velvet jackets and stripey Doc Marten laces.

Was that Pippi's? I can't remember...

I rember buying one of those rings from pippys in 1974, everyone seemed to have one at the time, also used to buy Joss? sticks from there. Also had a fantastic afghan waistcoat (well I thought it fantastic at the time).

Those puzzle rings were all the rage. I loved them, I had a couple myself.

do you know the story behind them? I thik this may be a bit of an urban legend, but this is the gist of the history, as told to me.

They were supposedly wedding rings.

The owner could not be unfaithful, whilst wearing the ring, so the rings were taken off. (yeah, right, like that's ever stopped anyone!)

Naturally, they'd fall to pieces, on being removed, and the owner would get caught out as having been unfaithful.

As you can imagine, the secret of putting them back together, (and quickly!) was soon learnt. lol.

Afghan coats! oh-boy! they were ace... till they got rained on, then they stank. An odour I can only describe as like wet-dog!

PT

The shop you went up the stairs to was Rocky Horrors which was near enough next door to the Sportsman pub.

What was that place called which was near Cole Bros in the early 90s. you had to go up some dodgy stairs and it stank of patchouli. I used to go in there for my velvet jackets and stripey Doc Marten laces.

Was that Pippi's? I can't remember...

pippys was lower down, closer to the wap, it was only one floor

as has been said, rocky horrors was near the top of the street, across from cole bros and you went upstairs

Thanks - that was starting to annoy me. It's moved to Division Street now then. I remember my friend bought some shoes from there that had a no-kidding 8 inch heel on them. it wasn't much fun going out with her seeing as she could hardly walk in them when sober, never mind after a few pints!

Yeah, I remember Pippys. I too bought a cropped black leather bikers jacket from there too. i also regularly bought the little pots of crazily coloured hair dye (can't remember what it was called) but I used rose red and pillarbow red for several years. they used to make a right mess of towels and bedding!

There were several shops up the stairs near the old Rocky horrors. I bought tie dye skirts and hippy tops there and found that they stocked the hair dye which was useful when Pippys closed down. Was the building called, The Cambridge arcade? There was also another 'alternative' shop near the markets, can't remember much about it but remember it sold loads of stuff made from hemp.

The shop near the markets that sold the hemp gear was Oblivion.The same shop opened upstairs in Cambridge Arcade when Rocky Horrors was on the top floor.

Oh yeah. Think I bought an army parka from there for £20 about 15 years ago!

i remember it well i got a afgan coat when i was 16 from there it was wicked ive still got it in a bag in the wardrobe.

. i also regularly bought the little pots of crazily coloured hair dye (can't remember what it was called) but I used rose red and pillarbow red for several years. they used to make a right mess of towels and bedding!


it was called directions

i used to buy apple green for my mohican if i remember rightly

i heard of pippys in conversation but never been there myself but reading some of the comments it sounded great

my mate at the time, daniel worked in pippy's which i would date back to summer 1996. bobby knutt was a mate of the owners and i would think what a prat,

All I remember of Pippys was the several large vibrators they used to have in the window!

hi brian its howard mate you remember me chapel walk

it was owned by pip hayman. he was always in josehines every nite . they even put a sign in the corner of josies saying pips corner.(that was in the 80's,)now theres some useless info for you.his daughter was always around town also,nikki if my memory is correct.(he was always next to the toilets,place where u could see everyone in the club. sure you'll sleep better with my info. hasta luego


brian its howard mate from allkinds

it was called directions

i used to buy apple green for my mohican if i remember rightly

Used to get the pillarbox red and the green one from Rocky Horrors, bit crap to be honest, washed out too fast. Went past where Pippy's was today, sad to recall the old days. Just like when I go up Carver Street and Just Micro has been wiped from history. :(