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Hi there Nottsvegan, They were separate co-ops - linked by friendship and mutual support and promotion only. After Out to Munch closed, Hiziki took on the café, calling it Café Hiziki. Some café members then opened Salamander. Not sure if it was a separate co-op to Hiziki / Café Hiziki - I suspect it would have been in order to protect the wholefood shop if the restaurant went out of business. At least one of the ex-Salamander members still lives in Nottingham, I see him from time to time, but don't have a contact. I think there is a way of checking whether a name is taken or copyrighted

Yep, I remember Stewart's, that was one of my lunch-hour haunts! What an amazing garden shop that was, I've still never found anywhere better than that. Started my first garden with plants, tools and advice from there. Sad loss, now yet another bar...

Hi there, I stumbled across this thread, and as I worked at Mushroom Bookshop for a few years in the mid-90's, can add a little bit to it: Mushroom Bookshop started on Arkwright Street in 1972, set up by the late Keith Leonard and his then partner Chris Cook. Not entirely sure of the order of things, but at some point it moved to Heathcote Street, taking over the site of the Drury Hill Bookshop (which I presume had been on Drury Hill before that whole area was demolished to make way for the Broadmarsh Centre - anybody know?). By the time I first knew it (1990), it took up numbers 10-12 Hea