Decline In The High Street

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Mine too Brian. Do you remember the actual model dockyard on display...spectacular....it was never the same after it moved out of the arcade.
I can just remember after visiting the Dockyard, being taken to Wilson's Zoo situated up a tenement stair at the corner of Oswald Street.
There you could see a lion, panther, baboon, monkeys etc, all in cages about the size of shoeboxes and probably never saw daylight for decades. An old guy used to get in the lions cage with a whip and try to get it to do tricks. I believe its only trick was to pee on the audience. What I remember most was the smell....and that was from the drunks who wandered in to torment the animals.
In retrospect a deathtrap.....a thing of nightmares......a Glasgow version of the Island of Doctor Moreau

I remember that Lion I dont think it had any teeth,did Wallaces sausages not move into that building and there was a bonded warehouse at the back those were the days of those quint three wheel articulated Fodens that BR used to have.

You Are dead on Del it died the day it moved out of the Arcade
 
Mine too Brian. Do you remember the actual model dockyard on display...spectacular....it was never the same after it moved out of the arcade.
I can just remember after visiting the Dockyard, being taken to Wilson's Zoo situated up a tenement stair at the corner of Oswald Street.
There you could see a lion, panther, baboon, monkeys etc, all in cages about the size of shoeboxes and probably never saw daylight for decades. An old guy used to get in the lions cage with a whip and try to get it to do tricks. I believe its only trick was to pee on the audience. What I remember most was the smell....and that was from the drunks who wandered in to torment the animals.
In retrospect a deathtrap.....a thing of nightmares......a Glasgow version of the Island of Doctor Moreau
Oh how i long for the good old days!!!!!
Brian
 
I remember it well, under central station bridge, even jamiesons has fewer big scale figures now. And I'm at least half your ages!(y)
Scotty
 
I very rarely venture into town these days, because I have absolutely no interest in anything that the likes of Starbucks, Body Shop, Clintons, Bet Fred, Greggs and sundry discotheques-cum-clothes-boutiques have to offer.

Time was most towns had their own special attractions in terms of shops. Not any more though. Once you've seen one 21st century UK town centre, you've pretty much seen 'em all: Same chains, same chavs, same litter, same (in most cases) complete lack of any character whatsoever. And where once were model shops, now there are just mobile phone shops, staffed by bored-looking spotty youths in ill-fitting suits.

On the rare occasions I do hit town, it's mainly just to blitz the food hall in M&S (can't deny the quality of the nosebag they sell), and/or to peruse Waterstones before deciding that I can get whichever book it is I'm interested in cheaper off Amazon after all. I might pick up a modelling mag in W.H. Smiths while I'm there, but that's about it.

- Steve
 
Although the internet marketplace has pretty much taken over nowadays I now only buy models that I've seen in 'the flesh' so most of my purchases take place at Euro.
I do buy from the internet but again it's figures I've actually seen. It would be great to see more shops carrying a decent figure stock but on simple business terms you can understand the demise of the High Street figure market particularly when an on-line supplier doesn't have to carry a huge stock when good supply and distribution lines can be established with manufacturers
D
 


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