At 157 High Street, on the corner of Truro Road and the High Street there usedto be a business which for a long time had a sign outside saying it was part of the Pure Life group. After they stopped selling their furniture at 157, the shop was used by some women said to be relatives of a director of Pure Life. The women who sold trinkets, tasteless geegaws and very cheep bangles would regularly insist that they were closing any day now, but the sale seemed to go on and on and on.
The Pure Life sign then went, but for some time commerce continued within. Oddly enough, the goods looked remarkably like cast-offs from the Pure Life furniture store down at the bottom end of the High Street, including a carved wood buddha and cheap, plasticy, leather dining room chairs, though there were more cheap knick-knacks and soft furnishings than furniture thrown into the mix. The items had labels marked Glamour UK Ltd. I do not think there was a connection with Glamour the hair salon.
On entering I once saw an irate customer complaining that he had tried to sort out some problem or other for three weeks - it did not hear the cause of the contretemps but did hear something about 50 quid. In the end, problem not sorted, he left with young lady who looked like his daughter, red in the face, saying he will be back. Not a propitious introduction to a 'new' business.
Next door to Discount Decore and across Truro road from Ambrosia. Upstairs is SJ Law.
Since the demise, the shop has been divided into three businesses, Bag Shop (which does not display a business name on its frontage) taking the corner, Shoe Box in the middle and Nadeem's Bedding taking the right hand space.
[Updated 10 July 2009]