Writer's Block: Shops Gone By

[fiat_knox]

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Oh, I have a list.

Dillon's Bookshop.
Bookland Bookshop.
Toppers Games, Chester.
Chester Game Co., above the old Grey & Pink Records.
Odyssey 7, before they got swallowed up by Forbidden Planet.
Andromeda Bookshop, Birmingham.
Dungeons & Starships, Birmingham.
That tea store down Godstall Lane, Chester.
That little game store in Liverpool that closed.
Murgen's Keep, Manchester.
The herbal store down the Arcade in town. "Natural Nation," their name was.
The old New Aeon Books, in the old Corn Exchange in Manchester.
That little New Age supplies store in Wrexham.
Kwik Save just down the road from where I live.

It just goes on and on.

Comments

[martinhazel.livejournal.com]

hmmn some of these I agree with, if your looking for cracking RPG shops we have one in Lancaster. Murgens hasn't gone though its just moved locations, I was talking to mike the other week :D

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

Do you have its current address?

[martinhazel.livejournal.com]

Will find out for you buddy

[weofodthignen]

Dillon's is gone????????!!!!!!! Aargh!!!!!

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

The one in Chester was assimilated by the Borg taken over by Waterstone's years ago.

Oh. That reminds me. Two more Cestrian stores I sorely miss:

There was a bookstore just down along the Rows from the Dillons'. One day I went there, only to find it selling kitchenware. It was empty, last time I looked. If I had a mint, I'd go there and set up a bookstore right there.

And then there was Armadillo, which closed when the Government shut down all knife and sword vendors in the UK. It sold the most exquisite weapons.