Neil 2 Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 Anyone remember the TV ad with the gentleman with a wobbly lunch box "When You walk through the door Your pounds worth more" "At Williams Where Else" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 I don't remember a shop called Williams. What kind of stuff did they sell? Was there one in Broad Marsh? Living on Clifton I often used to go through Broad Marsh from its very early days and that name doesn't ring any bells. Weird coincidence if their catchphrase was "your pounds worth more" because that's about all Broad Marsh consists of these days . No proper shops left. If you haven't been through the place for a few years (and you only go through because no-one stops there) it has a branch of every kind of pound shop. Pound Store, Pound Stretcher, Pound Land, and to be different there was (maybe still is) a 99p store for people who aren't so well off Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 Furniture Store (IMMSC) I think there may have been a national chain of them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 I worked on the Broadmarsh Coop as an electrician when it was built. 1974 it was. Later it became Alders, Now boarded up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted March 26, 2011 Report Share Posted March 26, 2011 Furniture Store (IMMSC) I think there may have been a national chain of them. That would explain why I don't remember them. A teenager wasn't going to be interested in furniture. I worked on the Broadmarsh Coop as an electrician when it was built. 1974 it was. Later it became Alders, Now boarded up. And for the last couple of years before it was boarded up, it was TK Maxx until they moved to the new Trinity Square disaster Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Neil 2 Posted September 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 Sorry you've got the wrong place. It was at the top of the escalaters opposite Whimpey's Yes it was a furniture shop Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted September 27, 2011 Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 I think it later became 'Wades' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,435 Posted September 28, 2011 Report Share Posted September 28, 2011 Now you've mentioned Wades, I remember it. That unit, like almost everything else in Broad Marsh, is now a Pound Shop of some kind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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