A mooch round the North Yorkshire Metropole Harrogate today has been grand.
Once famous for its waters and international toy fairs, we go for the charity ships, vintage emporia and many many cafes and eateries.
I took a few snaps. This is in a big retro shop called Space.
A Tretchkikoff mirror.
More vintage pics.
Laserdiscs galore! You don't often see them.
Bits n bobs like a Blake's 7 Liberator. Too dear for me!
An unknown Barney Rubble fig.
The shop's own collection bots and space toys, not for sale.
Rocket lamps like the ones my folks had, £245 each!
Auction house notice: Fairylite Thunderbirds dolls sold price!
More vintage tackle.
In the Charities.
Steam LP's! Does anyone collect them?
In Books for All, an old second-hand
Bookshop on two floors. Amazing!
Gunner Cade, a new one on me, he looks like a THX guard! And One.-Eye has a Patrick Woodroofe cover I think.
The Master of Mars, now that's old!
In the Charities:
Who is Tree Fu Tom?
Cabinet life: so dear!
Cafe Lago Di Como. My ancestors hail from Como.
These wooden okapi were everywhere in my parents home.
£5? Cor! Expensive charity stuff!
Never read Stig of the Dump. You?
See anything you like?
The Liberator isn't massively pricey but, as usual, the neutron blaster tips are broken off. The white ones are the commonest (in this country anyway).
ReplyDeleteGood tip that Kev (or tips)! :-)
DeleteThat seems about standard for Aussie die-cast prices!
DeleteI had the white and blue/yellow Liberators, still in their packages -long gone now!
Blue ones are quite rare!
DeleteWas in Harrogate, for a day, with my Wife, last summer and went, like you, into 'Space'.
ReplyDeleteLots of interesting stuff, but nothing quite right for me.
Also visited the famous Betty's Tea Room.
I know what you mean about Space Mish. Personally I found stuff too dear. I did get a mini US football helmet for two squid!
DeleteI like Harrogate tho.
ReplyDeleteI do not think I have ever seen a Laser Disc, but I might have walked past them without knowing what they were.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had a busy day.
It even has a label on the laserdiscs Paul telling folks that these are not LP's but laserdiscs! I've never seen so many in one second-hand shop! there was probably a player as well there somewhere. Lost tech now.
DeleteNot so much as lost tech but it has evolved into DVDs ;) Years back, one of the record stores had a ton of laser discs for 99 cents each. I went to every location I could and went thru their stock. I got some Douglas Fairbanks Sr movies and other stuff. My player still works.
DeleteThe only real old tech I kind of wish I had but not really, is the Selectavision Video Disc system which was a large record and needle system like a record but was a movie. So eventually it would wear out. Granted I only have 2 movies in that format and have them on DVD so I'm in no rush lol. I've got the Black Hole and the Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.
I'd have picked up that TIE Striker for a fiver, been after one for ages! Harrogate is renown for its antiques, so I think that reflects in the charity shop culture. Bill
ReplyDeleteYes, prices were high Bill and the Charity shops almost empty of toys on the whole. They'll re-fill as unwanted Xmas gifts surface! To me a fiver is still a lot of money!
DeleteBookshop for me. Have to be parked just outside, to be able to run in and out laden with goodies. The last 2nd hand bookshop near me closed about 20 years ago (it had 3 floors and a basement, with books stacked on the stairs aswell as shelves, tables everwhere covered in glorious printed matter), one that I found lurking in Weston-Super-Mare closed about 10 years ago. Alas charity shops only seem to sell good condition/modern books, so pickings are slim for me.
ReplyDeleteI used to love second hand book shops but they almost extinct. I find myself lurching towards the Luddite view that maybe the Internet was a bad idea.
DeleteYes, a good second-hand bookshop is a treasure and this one was like something out of Harry Potter. Thousands of old books crammed into dark wooden shelving on two floors with the seller tucked away in a corner at his old desk! Priceless!
DeleteLurching toward the Luddite! ha ha, what a great phrase Kev! The title of your autobiography for sure!
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