No Busters was part of the mall, porky's was round the corner...opp JockersWasn't that part of The Mall?
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No Busters was part of the mall, porky's was round the corner...opp JockersWasn't that part of The Mall?
Still got my old school tie from there in the 70's.Wow - wasn't Nelson Steet pulled down in the 1960s.
Reeds was open in the 1970s it was mainly Sports goods, but I remember getting my school tie and blazer badge and blazer (not Eton).
A mate used to work in Geordie Jeans was top place...A few choices for me, Geordie Jeans and the and the Great American Soda Bar!
It was Stewarts - like a department store for clothes - its the last building along Linthorpe Road on the right if walking to the railway stations. I bought denim there in the 70s and denim was very big then. It was the best place for denim. I remember going in as a young teenager (with mother as she was paying) and a guy came up to me and he said he was a Norweigan Ship captain and he had a son the same size as me and wanted to check how the denim looked, so I modelled. I do think back and now wonder but he seemed proper. He spent a fortune on clothes there because the UK was much chepaer than Norway. Ships came regularly from Scandanavia to Middesbrough Dock then. Its only 15 minutes walk from the Dock to the shop.Stewarts, or is it Stuart's stores at the end of linthorpe rd. Went there for our Ben Sherman's, stay press trousers, Harrington jackets,Levi's and Wranglers. Best shop in town
It was the Great American Soda BarNot so much a shop, but as a kid, I always enjoyed going to the sort of American Diner that was near where HMV is now in Middlesbrough. You used to have to go downstairs to get to it.
A mate used to work in Geordie Jeans was top place...
I had a pair from there and on each knee was a cartoon. Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble skateboarding on a board made of a woolly mammoths' ivory tusk, one on each leg. Loved them!
It was Stewarts - like a department store for clothes - its the last building along Linthorpe Road on the right if walking to the railway stations. I bought denim there in the 70s and denim was very big then. It was the best place for denim. I remember going in as a young teenager (with mother as she was paying) and a guy came up to me and he said he was a Norweigan Ship captain and he had a son the same size as me and wanted to check how the denim looked, so I modelled. I do think back and now wonder but he seemed proper. He spent a fortune on clothes there because the UK was much chepaer than Norway. Ships came regularly from Scandanavia to Middesbrough Dock then. Its only 15 minutes walk from the Dock to the shop.
The owner of Stewarts bought what is now Stewart's Park for the people of Middlesbrough. It was previously owned by the Bolckow family (A German immigrant who helped found modern Middlesbrough and its first MP).
Did it used to be a pub, there were two in the Cleveland Centre, the Erimus and the Lion and Falcon.Not so much a shop, but as a kid, I always enjoyed going to the sort of American Diner that was near where HMV is now in Middlesbrough. You used to have to go downstairs to get to it.
It was on Wilson Street, near the Brunswick pub, I think it was simply called The Model ShopThere was a great model shop on either Wilson Street or Brunswick Street. Always seemed to be jam packed, floor to ceiling, with Airfix models, balsa wood flying models and radio controlled aeroplanes.
Later in life, I missed the Lion and Falcon.
It hasn't changed inside since before I got my Hustler School Blazer there, back in the late 70s.Not a shop that'd closed but must be middlesbroughs longest serving shop. Ross's on borough Road has been established since 1904. Was in there getting my son some stuff and the guy who runs it said its bloody brutal round that area now especially on the early dark nights.
Oh yes. Busters used to do full English breakfastsNo Busters was part of the mall, porky's was round the corner...opp Jockers