Scalextric Shop in Middlesbrough

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Just chatting to my dad about the shop in Newton Street, now Cleveland Centre, where we kids would go to watch the Scalextric on a Saturday.
It was a really big track with rally minis as I recall.
But what was the shop called?
Anyone remember it?
 
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fmttmadmin said:
Just chatting to my dad about the shop in Newton Street, now Cleveland Centre, where we kids would go to watch the Scalectrix on a Saturday.
It was a really big track witb rally minis as I recall.
But what was the shop called?
Anyone remember it?
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I dont remember that, but wasn't there a big model racing shop in the Forbes Buildings ?

I also seem to remember their being a great record shop, (and a football programme shop, or is my memory playing tricks on me?).
 
fmttmadmin said:
Just chatting to my dad about the shop in Newton Street, now Cleveland Centre, where we kids would go to watch the Scalectrix on a Saturday.
It was a really big track witb rally minis as I recall.
But what was the shop called?
Anyone remember it?
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There was something similar in South Bank based in a building on the corner of Victoria Street and Queens Street.

I wonder if it was something that traveled the area or just different clubs.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
I dont remember that, but wasn't there a big model racing shop in the Forbes Buildings ?

I also seem to remember their being a great record shop, (and a football programme shop, or is my memory playing tricks on me?).
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There was a football programme shop and a record shop. I bought a 7" of purple haze from there in the 90s. I figured it might be worth something one day. £40 it's going for on eBay so I don't think I can retire yet.
 
HarryVegas said:
Dean Wycherley had a record shop in the Cleveland Centre.
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Yeah but this was the Forbes Buildings, and I'm 100% sure it was there as I did my A-level Computer Science project designing a stock control system for them (I never actually gave them it, and just made up the stakeholder interviews we were supposed to do).

Although it was owned by a middle aged lady, a guy called Neil who was from Peterborough and looked like a cross between Clint Mansell and Perry Farrell worked in there, and I remember getting the National Express down to the Reading Festival with him whilst he drank probably 3 bottles of red wine.

My question was more, was there a football programmes shop as obviously Boro Programmes was just round the corner.
 
Am older than most of you. This was a big track took pretty much the whole shop. Kids would watch it on a Saturday.
 
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Wiseman_Vaughn said:
Not sure why but I thought the huge scalextric track was somewhere between the Rock Garden and town. Vaugely remember it - maybe 70/71 ish?
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I might be wrong but always thought it was Newton Street - and yes around that period. The town looked really different in those days before the Cleveland Centre, the new bus station and A66 - the terraced streets seemed to stretch out in all directions for ever.,
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Yeah but this was the Forbes Buildings, and I'm 100% sure it was there as I did my A-level Computer Science project designing a stock control system for them (I never actually gave them it, and just made up the stakeholder interviews we were supposed to do).

Although it was owned by a middle aged lady, a guy called Neil who was from Peterborough and looked like a cross between Clint Mansell and Perry Farrell worked in there, and I remember getting the National Express down to the Reading Festival with him whilst he drank probably 3 bottles of red wine.

My question was more, was there a football programmes shop as obviously Boro Programmes was just round the corner.
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Goth Neil, was doing a fine art degree at uni, I used to knock about with him.
 
Remember going in this place on a Saturday after the baths. It had a wooden track with 8 lanes for the cars. There was a really long straight then a bend where most cars came off. It was a sort of figure of eight with a bridge. You payed a few pence for a couple of laps of the track. There are various threads about this on the “Memories of Middlesbrough” Facebook group. There are two main theories on there. One said it was on Newton Street where MacFisheries and the old Jack Hatfield’s shop was on. The other says Bottomley Street. It was definitely where the Cleveland Centre is now. Somebody reckoned it was called “Modeldrome”.

P.S. The cars weren’t as quick as these though!

 
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There was a Scalextric track in a building close to the Purple Onion in the 1960s. The model railway layouts in Romer Parrish and Leslie Browns were coin operated and not very big, oo gauge, about 6ft x 4 ft. One of them, I think it is the one from Browns was saved and set up in the Shed Shop at Grosmont.
 
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