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We were in Barnstaple on holiday today and they have a Wimpy but no McDonalds. Got me thinking, I remember going to Wimpy in Sheffield as a kid in the 70s and maybe 80s but can't remember where it was and when it closed. Any ideas?

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There was one on pinstone street near or actually where the damart store was

and also one on fargate near wh smiths

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We were in Barnstaple on holiday today and they have a Wimpy but no McDonalds. Got me thinking, I remember going to Wimpy in Sheffield as a kid in the 70s and maybe 80s but can't remember where it was and when it closed. Any ideas?

 

Bottom of Pinstone St in between where Damart and H Samuel was. Or, diagonally across from the first McDonald's on the top of the Moor!

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Pinstone street! Of course! Many thanks all. Can you remember when it closed?

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Was there one near the old markets too? Opposite where Wilkinsons etc is now?

I seem to remember my cousin working there when I was quite young.

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i think there was one on fargate in the 70s

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Pinstone street! Of course! Many thanks all. Can you remember when it closed?

I was in this one in about 1974.

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There was one opposite British home stores on hay market

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There was one opposite British home stores on hay market

 

Burger King bought most of the wimpy out I think early 90s late 80s, it took them a couple of years to convert to Burger King. my wife started at Wimpy late 80s and carried on with Burger King into the noughties.

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i think there was one on fargate in the 70s

i was thinking that, about halfway down on the left hand side as you walked down fargate.

 

anybody remember the mr wimpy game on the zx spectrum? lol

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There was one opposite British home stores on hay market

Yes, that one was there until at least the late 80s.

 

---------- Post added 04-08-2015 at 19:40 ----------

 

i was thinking that, about halfway down on the left hand side as you walked down fargate. ...

You can just make it out on this photo from 1989.

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