Came across this little lot...

[classic33]

How many do you remember

https://www.flickriver.com/photos/8728562@N06/sets/72157625112893058/

 

[avecReynolds531]

How many do you remember

https://www.flickriver.com/photos/8728562@N06/sets/72157625112893058/

Thanks for this, that's a fine photographic collection of old bike shops.
Much appreciated

 

[carpenter]

It could be the start of a "coffee table" book

I didn't recognise any, but it got me thinking about my home town - Letchworth Garden City (manufacturing plant for Chater Lea).
Everyone seemed to cycle to work, I used to watch hoards of workers cycling home at lunchtimes and at end of day (no works canteens so they would cycle home for lunch).


I remember there being three bike shops in the '60's:

Munts - toys, prams, bikes, sporting goods


Haddows


There was another (where I got my Dawes racer for cycling to secondary school), but funnily enough I can't remember the name of the shop - it was the only one which only sold bikes.

 

[Grant Fondo]

How many do you remember

https://www.flickriver.com/photos/8728562@N06/sets/72157625112893058/

Wow what a collection! I remember buying a few bits from GH Williams in Headington back in the 80s. Thats when bike shops had a proper rubbery oily smell, not the glossy showrooms of today

 

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Anybody remember the bike shop in Buttermarket steet in Warrington, my friend and I used to drool over the Dawes and Claud Butlers in the window.

 

[classic33]

Anybody remember the bike shop in Buttermarket steet in Warrington, my friend and I used to drool over the Dawes and Claud Butlers in the window.

Syd Ellison's, next to The Lower Angel pub?

http://www.mywarrington.me.uk/shop.htm

 

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Thats it, thanks for finding it for me.