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Offline Barbiroli

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #15 on: February 06, 2011, 02:37:05 pm »
I think there were two, Mike`s shop and a hairdressers next door.

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2011, 03:36:08 pm »
mike tick tock took over the shop after moving from his shop next to baxters photography.

Not the famous "Mike The Watch?"


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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #17 on: February 06, 2011, 03:57:15 pm »
the name of the jewellery shop was MANSELS,i think they came here  from england.the family lived for a short while in a flat in ffordd dwyfor.there was mr and mrs mansel and a son ,possibly michael,the business later moved to the corner of moon st. and mostyn broadway,mike tick tock took over the shop after moving from his shop next to baxters photography.but this has got me thinking was there two shops on this corner or just the one.
Mansels advert from 1966:

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2011, 12:33:08 pm »
I was in school with Francine Mansell. her Father had the shop but I don't remember a brother or her Mother.

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2011, 12:59:42 pm »
Mike Mansell was in JBGS with me from 1961-67.

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2011, 07:36:23 pm »
From 1955 - Ball & Boyd Estate Agents in the 'Loyal Arcade', 76 Mostyn Street. 76 Mostyn Street is now Superdrug. Loyal Arcade suggests more than one business/shop in the arcade, does anyone know more?

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Offline Dwyforite

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2011, 09:10:35 pm »
i think  the EXPRESS cleaners were there as well,there was also a shop selling plumbing supplies in the basement,and my sister just put forward the name KENDALS i am told they sold high class raincoats and such.

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2011, 09:23:52 pm »
Thanks Dwyforite, that's interesting.  $thanx$ I wonder if there's any photos of the arcade anywhere. I've only ever known it as Superdrug.

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #23 on: February 08, 2011, 11:21:27 am »
At the bottom on the right was Mary Hone a wool shop and on the left Kendalls which became the first "Next" outside Manchester and they went on to bigger things!  At the top was the cleaners.  next door was Maypole and Princes Cinema and Sandbach.

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #24 on: February 08, 2011, 12:58:18 pm »
wasn't there a shop called "Jaeger" that sold clothes?

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #25 on: February 08, 2011, 08:51:44 pm »
I was just thinking that maybe one of the larger empty shops on Mostyn Street could be converted into this sort of Arcade format, whereby 5 or so smaller shops share the space. Would enable smaller businesses to get a toehold on Mostyn Street without it being an all-out gamble.

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #26 on: February 08, 2011, 08:55:15 pm »
Westmorelands Toy Shop in 1966 (now Nineteen Coffee Shop, I think?)

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #27 on: February 08, 2011, 09:02:39 pm »
Yes,great photo, it looks like the basement area which was turned into Santa's Grotto each year
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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #28 on: February 08, 2011, 09:34:48 pm »
I always find that 'Yachts That Sail' a bits strange, for some reason.

Here's Roberts & Son (The Royal Fish Stores), Fishmongers, in 1921. Their shop is now HSBC Bank:

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Offline norman08

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Re: Vanished shops of Llandudno
« Reply #29 on: February 08, 2011, 10:14:37 pm »
wasn,t their a butchers called espleys by the arcade ,[milk bar side ]we used to do the harry worth sketch outside kendals window