I haven’t seen all the video but I get the jist, indeed shopping in actual shops seems to be a dying thing nowadays, even I’m guilty of buying stuff online at Amazon etc., and getting groceries delivered by Tesco.
As a boy I used to go with my mam to Victoria Centre and get fresh veg, meat and fish from the market, if I’d been good mam would buy me an apple or banana.
I also remember our local beer off, for youngsters who don’t know what a beer off is, it’s a shop that would sell normal groceries but also licensed to sell beer and liquor for consumption off the premises, our corner shop even had a hand pump, my dad used to take a jug and the shopkeeper would fill it with beer for him to take home.
Other shops I remember are MFI which was a shop that sold flat pack furniture (similar to IKEA), the big coop store on Parliament street sold everything, they had lifts to different floors with a lift operator who would ask you which floor and push the button for you, Woolworths of course was a favourite, especially the sweet counter, Redmayne and Todd’s was on the corner of canal street and Carrington Street and sold Sports equipment, our street had a sweet shop run by a dear old lady called Mrs. Wright, she lived in the back room and would come into the shop when someone opened the door which rang a bell, we used to beg a penny off our parents and get a penny mix of sweets.
There was a shop that sold school uniforms of all the Nottingham Schools and jackets with the school badge on, I think it was called Price and Beale, it was the only place you could get school uniforms in those days.
When I grew up I had to get a suit and my dad took me to Burtons Tailors shop where was measured and got a suit for an interview, I paid with an account into which I paid 5 shilling a week (25p in todays money).
I’m sure there are lots more I can remember, I may come back to this topic.