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stunev wrote:As I understand it, even though the shop hadn't traded as Woolies for years, their property division still owned it and when Woolies went bust their property portfolio went to the receiver too, which is why Currys and Tesco closed so quickly.
Mori wrote:Was it not a John Menzies outlet after Woolies and Before dixons ? if memory serves me right.
chateaudulait wrote:Right thats that mystery solved. Now. Does anyone know whats happening to the building next to it, the old ravel shoe shop
Mori wrote:Was it not a John Menzies outlet after Woolies and Before dixons ? if memory serves me right.
Rucola wrote:Mori wrote:Was it not a John Menzies outlet after Woolies and Before dixons ? if memory serves me right.
John Menzies was in the unit that was latterly Tesco, but not the one that was Dixons/Currys.
IIRC (which is dubious), John Menzies and WH Smith were opposite each other on Argyle St in the mid-80s. At some point they swapped units so that each was in the space the other had occupied before. Then when John Menzies gave up on the retail business WH Smith bought it over and ended up in the same unit they had been in in the first place. Is this right or am I mad?
Glesga_Steve wrote:chateaudulait wrote:Right thats that mystery solved. Now. Does anyone know whats happening to the building next to it, the old ravel shoe shop
One mystery solved, another requiring to be unravelled.
Sorry, I'll get my coat
chateaudulait wrote:Ha no bad I passed it today and they have put a frieze up of a pub scene. Maybe a new boozer?
8cats wrote:Mori wrote:Was it not a John Menzies outlet after Woolies and Before dixons ? if memory serves me right.
I'd forgotten that was Menzies! It had a basement and I spent my first ever week's wages on a typewriter in there.
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