Free Falling Foxes Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 Anyone else noticed this shop? Its just off St Nics circle before you go down the High St. It's been there 'donkeys' years. Despite so many new/changed shops in town, his seems to be stuck in a 'time-warp'. All you'll see in the front window is some old books, a model train & a couple of pieces of Scalextric track. I must admit I've never been in there - just glanced in the window. Has anyone been in there & what's his secret to longevity? FFF
Zingari Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 yes amazing how it has survived ,can't imagine it is anything other than a labour of love . it looks like the setting for "black books "
Trav Le Bleu Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 I know the shop you speak of, but didn't realise that was it's name and you're spot on. I can remember it from at least when I was a teenager... 20 years ago or more. Wow. I seem to have some distant memory of going in there, I quite like rooting around in shops like that.
Zingari Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 I know the shop you speak of, but didn't realise that was it's name and you're spot on. I can remember it from at least when I was a teenager... 20 years ago or more. Wow. I seem to have some distant memory of going in there, I quite like rooting around in shops like that. Pretty sure its been there over 40 years , seem to remember i used to pass it going to Ald Newts , There was also a second hand record shop close by called Browns, that used to flog off the ex juke box singles with the centres of the disc pressed out . Little plastic inserts could be bought so that we could play them on our state of the art Dansette
lou Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 Can't say I've even noticed it. I'm going in there next time I'm in town now! We should all make the effort to visit it the owner won't know what's hit!
Zingari Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 Can't say I've even noticed it. I'm going in there next time I'm in town now! We should all make the effort to visit it the owner won't know what's hit! he sounds a bundle of laughs http://sempereadem.org/Pages/Alfred%20Lenton.html ps does anyone else think the thread title sounds like it's a pisspoor sitcom from the 70's
lou Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 he sounds a bundle of laughs http://sempereadem.org/Pages/Alfred%20Lenton.html ps does anyone else think the thread title sounds like it's a pisspoor sitcom from the 70's even more reason to descend on his shop en masse I reckon!
Trav Le Bleu Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 Can't say I've even noticed it. I'm going in there next time I'm in town now! We should all make the effort to visit it the owner won't know what's hit! You mean like Alfred Lenton rolling?
Zingari Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 even more reason to descend on his shop en masse I reckon! yes , this could turn into a movement keep going in asking for copies of books , but with added stipulations "Little Britain style"
Jay Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 I guess every town or city has a shop like this! In Grantham we have a shop that seems to been here for ever, all my life anyway called The Gun Shop or something it has a small window that you can see boxes piled up high and from what I gather it sells toy cars and trains, guns and fishing stuff and obvious mix if ever I have seen one..... the stock looks like it's be there years and I have never known anyone to actually go into the shop how it's still there I will never know
dilko2008 Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 i work in Dominoes toys on high street and his is often in our shop grade A wierd man once told us his shop took £1 one week!
jonthefox Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 I remember going in there as a kid when they use to sell the old hornby model trains.
samlcfc Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 Didnt even realise that place was actually open aha. Seen it for years but always just thought it was an abandoned building
dilko2008 Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 He is very often not in there and is seen wondering around town
AmericanScott Posted 20 February 2010 Posted 20 February 2010 I might pop in on my birthday next week and get myself a train set. Always wanted one. i work in Dominoes toys on high street and his is often in our shop grade A wierd man once told us his shop took £1 one week! You can thank me if you have a high number of people asking for model cars and helicopters. I send customers to you or Argos if we don't sell what they're looking for.
JIMMYWILLIS Posted 18 August 2014 Posted 18 August 2014 I was talking about this yesterday. Been there all my life yet never seen any activity around it
PAULCFC Posted 20 August 2014 Posted 20 August 2014 Been in a few times in the early eighties as a kid when me and my dad were building a train set,that was when Mr Lenton was still alive.Brilliant shop if you needed some obscure bits for a model railway.Seems to be still just as i remember it now.Must be worth a few bob for developing.Would be a pity though,Perhaps the city council could do something worthwile with the tax payers money and think about preserving it.(once his son decides he doesn't want it)
PAULCFC Posted 20 August 2014 Posted 20 August 2014 On the same subject more or less,Does anyone on here remember the second hand shop on Humberstone Road.More or less near the roundabout before the ring road was built?(sorry to anyone born before 1970)
Buzzell Posted 20 August 2014 Posted 20 August 2014 I've walked past this place many times but it always looked like it was shut to me.
Jonnyc777 Posted 4 December 2014 Posted 4 December 2014 ALFRED LENTON... When you go in there he doesn't let you look round he just wants to talk, And boy does he talk he never stops, he really does tell you his life story (I've been in there twice). whenever you say ok well I better get moving he just carries on talking. He doesn't want you to leave. TRUE STORY. But he seems a nice guy to be honest, very chatty, as I've said but I don't think I trust him with my dog.
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