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It's nice to know I'm not the only arcade fan (and I don't mind a spot of gaming.:hihi:) Here's a photo of the Union Street end of the late lamented Cambridge Arcade.

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Can you remember the shops in the arcade before it closed? I think I remember a barbers(was it Johnny Fanthams?),a staitioners,maybe a haberdashery and I think the side windows of Suggs where as kids we used to stand and look longingly at the "casey" footballs and the shotguns!

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Can only remember John Fantham having a hairdressers on Division Street and then a hardware shop at Crosspool

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Can you remember the shops in the arcade before it closed? I think I remember a barbers(was it Johnny Fanthams?)....
Yes - Johnny Fantham had his barber shop there before he moved to Division Street. I also remember Ken Jones' double-fronted jeweller's shop. Here is a scan from the 1973 Kelly's Directory.

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Yes - Johnny Fantham had his barber shop there before he moved to Division Street. I also remember Ken Jones' double-fronted jeweller's shop. Here is a scan from the 1973 Kelly's Directory.

 

Doesn't look as though my memory is very accurate!

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Hi hilsboro

do you rember the El Mambo at the botom of the arcade,Ithink Brendon Elwood was the owner.

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I think that must have been before my time. :hihi:.:hihi: But the name does seem to ring a bell. The "old" Nelson was just round the corner - I seem to recall a fatal stabbing there in 1968...

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hillsboro it was the fifties and was a place where you wouldn't let your daughter go or even walk past.

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To Jack Reacher: You're not thinking of Pippy's on Cambridge St are you? They started in the sixties with hippy clothes and I think finally gave up the ghost in the late eighties after getting into punk.

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SheilaH, Hillsbro already came up with the answer. Bubble and Squeak was the shop in question.

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It's not often that Hilsbro is wrong,and infact he's nearly right but I think the shop was called Southsea Bubble.

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It's not often that Hilsbro is wrong,and infact he's nearly right but I think the shop was called Southsea Bubble.

 

Nope - definitely Bubble 'n' Squeak (at least, that's the early 1970s shop that jack reacher referred to, as per the Kelly's Directory link in Hillsbro's post #21). In fact think I still have a couple of shirts I bought there, as well as a pair of rather snazzy slacks, but I don't suppose they'd go well with my grey hair now…:(

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