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« Reply #195 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 18:32:51 »

Sorry for the impersonal name - just a small team of us rather than one person!

We do have lots of Queens Park pics - I'll see what we have.
In the 90s those terrapins were seemingly wild in the ponds confusing drunks and students...

I can imagine fB thinking he might be living in a real Ninja Turtle world...
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« Reply #196 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 19:26:15 »


Surely Bretts was Commercial Road...not Cromwell Street?
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« Reply #197 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 19:30:55 »

Hinders pet shop
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« Reply #198 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 20:38:33 »

This is one for the oldies. My memory may be playing tricks on me but I have a vague recollection of there being animals on display ( a very mini mini zoo ) in one of the larger department stores - McIlroys / Debenhams building in the late mid / 60s.   
Can anyone confirm or am i talking shit as usual?
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« Reply #199 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 20:46:32 »

This is one for the oldies. My memory may be playing tricks on me but I have a vague recollection of there being animals on display ( a very mini mini zoo ) in one of the larger department stores - McIlroys / Debenhams building in the late mid / 60s.   
Can anyone confirm or am i talking shit as usual?

I remember there being a big pet shop of some sort on the corner where McDonalds is now. Was that Hinders?

They had a fucking big tank full of Pirhana's in there which were Ace.
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« Reply #200 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 20:47:08 »

Surely Bretts was Commercial Road...not Cromwell Street?

I dunno, it's next to Normans in that photo.
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« Reply #201 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 20:51:50 »

I dunno, it's next to Normans in that photo.

Maybe there were two stores..the one i remember in Commercial Road was bigger i seem to remember.
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« Reply #202 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 20:54:48 »

Maybe there were two stores..the one i remember in Commercial Road was bigger i seem to remember.

There was certainly a Bretts in Commercial road. I poked my fingers through a gerbils cage in there when I was about 8 and the little cunt bit me. It bled like fuck and I got a bollocking from the old dear.
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« Reply #203 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 21:14:46 »

Maybe there were two stores..the one i remember in Commercial Road was bigger i seem to remember.
I'm with you there, thought it was a double fronted shop.
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« Reply #204 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 21:23:57 »

I'm with you there, thought it was a double fronted shop.

Almost certainly moved from Cromwell Street to Commercial Road then i reckon...bigger premises.

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« Reply #205 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 21:52:14 »

I remember there being a big pet shop of some sort on the corner where McDonalds is now. Was that Hinders?

They had a fucking big tank full of Pirhana's in there which were Ace.

Was the pet shop called Toomer's?  May well be talking b*llocks though.
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« Reply #206 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 21:55:27 »

Was the pet shop called Toomer's?  May well be talking b*llocks though.

There is/was a Toomer's pet shop in Ciren, so highly possible.

edit: in fact, there is still a Toomers in Swindon

http://www.toomers.co.uk/contactus.php
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« Reply #207 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 22:25:23 »

the one on commercial road was definately called bretts.i remember the goldfish were kept in a tiled pond which was in the floor of the shop.
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« Reply #208 on: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 11:00:41 »

What about this pet shop?
Hinders - on Commercial Road.
Not sure of date (1960s?):
Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/5387318128/

I had a quick look in our collection of old phone books and directories and Bretts was also on COmmercial Road in the 1980s.
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