Bird Cage and City Arcade

Davis's was down past the Locarno towards Allied Carpets. They had a chess board built into the slabs outside their shop, with large wooden pieces for hire. I remember them as the only people whom sold catapult elastic in town?

Roy used to go the elecronics in a little passage to the left at the far end. So small if there were more than 2 people you had to queue outside.

Hello, Brilliant electronics stuff from there. Most of my railway miniature jack plugs came from there, a fraction of the price anywhere else. Early diodes for our dying diode fiddle yard operation that works twenty five years on. Showing off now, but the most catastrophic events with model railways is either a loco running off a lifting section, or a train going full pelt into a dead end. Our current railway has ten dead end fiddle yards but happily no lifting sections. So the dying diode stops the current once the loco has run into that section, then requires the controller to return the controller to zero, then to apply a fresh surge. It only operates in one direction. Coming out of the dead end is just normal.

I remember the Thistle, Phipps Mild !!!!

Bikers pub, off limits to a mod like me.