W H Smiths

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  CHILLYWILLY

• Jul 7, 2010

@ welb1931. It melted the toys in Phillips Toyshop across the road though.

 

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  welb1931

• Jul 7, 2010

@Chillywilly.....I was out on that call together with Richard Bros, Jim Botterell and if my memory serves
me right Peter Watson-Wood of Westward Tv.....and again if my memory is right this fire was followed
soon after with a nasty one in St Ives which caused a lot of damage.......

 

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  Tropicgal

• Jul 8, 2010

I don't remember a dress shop being on that site. I'm trying to remember the pub but my memory is failing me! Anyone have a photo of the Vic?

 

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  CHILLYWILLY

• Jul 8, 2010

@welb1931. Possibly so. I was only a young lad then, I can remember going to town the following week and my Dad taking me to Phillips window. The dolls and toys were still in the window all melted and distorted. Not a pretty sight.

 

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  Cherrycandy

• Jul 17, 2010

my mum thinks this place was a dress shop called stewarts ?

 

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  Halfhidden

• Jul 19, 2010

@ Tropigal wasn't the pub called the Prince of Wales?

 

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  welb1931

• Jul 19, 2010

@hh...The pub was The Victoria Inn also known as the Hole in the Wall ....The Prince of Wales was next door
to Woolworths....

 

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  Halfhidden

• Jul 23, 2010

I wonder if anyone has a picture of W H Smith when it was down in Branwell Mill?

 

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  Tropicgal

• Jul 23, 2010

Goodness! I do remember when WH Smith was at Branwell Mill! It was on the corner by the traffic lights opposite what is now the Longboat. I remember it being all dark wood and the entrance doors at glass lights with a pattern on them! Would love to see a photo.

 

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  treeve

• Jul 23, 2010

I have one somewhere in my piles of pictures. 'I may be gone for some time'