Hundreds Sweet Shop

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Hundreds Sweet Shop

by technomist @ 2008-02-26 - 22:47:29

The Hundreds Sweet Shop has a frontage coloured pastel candy pink, to help it stand out in the crowded market. At 183 High Street, it stands in all its glory at the corner of Erskine Road and the High Street, opposite the Nationwide Building Society.

Pressing my nose against the window, I can just make out before my breath fogs up the glass, that this one sells pick and mix, candy floss, popcorn, syrup and ice drinks which could be mistaken for slush puppie and ice-cream (as well as cigarettes and newspapers in a kiosk to the right of the entrance).

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menhir [Member]
2008-02-26 @ 23:50

Sounds interesting. Some friends of mine opened up a great sweet shop for connoisseurs of sweetie land, in North London. It did well as an independent 'pink' coloured high street sweet shop.

The original concept of the business was reliant on a number of stores being opened in quick succession, the birth of a chain of stores I suppose. I visited it once or twice and was saddened when it closed. It closed because a partner who wanted the benefits, did not pull his weight with the real work that went with the development.

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technomist [Member]
2008-02-27 @ 00:42

That's disheartening, because I think independent sweetshops can survive if they are willing to get the right stock in. There's a great sweetshop in Chester that does a really good trade, and sells stuff I thought had stopped being sold in the 70s.

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menhir [Member]
2008-02-27 @ 13:48

Yup, the hard working partner ended up in hospital with physical damage, doing stuff he wasn't fit for. The type of stock was interesting, both old and new.

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skip2468 [Member]
2008-02-27 @ 02:17

In this part of the world(NZ) similar sweet shops used to be found next door to picture theatres.

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technomist [Member]
2008-02-27 @ 10:55

The cinema is quite a saga here locally - we even have a group called the McGuggin Society, whose purpose in life is to lament the demise of our local cinema and wage a guerrilla war against the Council until we get one openned:

http://www.stalinism.co.uk/

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