SystonFox Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 A bit of nostalgia for all you 20+ something's and maybe a few older remember taking kids here. Children's world in belgrave, it had a slide. Was it the only shop with a slide or did all children's worlds have this feature? And what did this slide haven even sell? I imagined it was like toys r us but I was just a wee nipper I cannot remember what they even sold. Bit of nostalgia to get us going today
lavrentis Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 Our family still mentions it every time we go over the flyover, it was the only place I could go to persuade me to get my haircut when I was very young as I used to scream and shout xD
Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 From what I remember it was basically Toys R Us but it had a clothing section, a better videogame section and a slide. I vaguely remember a ball pit at one point, or am I imagining that? I loved it, kind of place you'd pester your parents all week to go to
Phube Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 Even better was the Carpet place next door had a ball pool!
SystonFox Posted 12 August 2012 Author Posted 12 August 2012 Even better was the Carpet place next door had a ball pool! I never knew. Bastards
Phube Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 I never knew. Bastards It's amazing how often we'd force my Dad into looking at new carpets!
SystonFox Posted 12 August 2012 Author Posted 12 August 2012 So was children's world a Leicester only shop?as I can't find any info online about a franchise. And if it wasn't, was the Leicester branch the only one with a bad ass slide?
kyleolly Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 They were owned by boots, 52 shops nationwide and i think the first one to open was on fosse park in 1987!
Raw Dykes Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 It was fvcking brilliant! It was like Toys R Us (sold toys and computer games), but it sold kid's clothes as well, and there was a big mezzanine first floor with a lift at the back for baby stuff, iirc. They put in an entrance for kids next to the normal doors that had a slide, a tunnel, (a ball pit?), etc. I think it had a cafe and a hairdressers, as well. One lad at school thought it was an orphanage!
Trav Le Bleu Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 Okay, one for the even older folks... what was the toy shop opposite the old Cannon/ABC cinema? It was huge and had working Scalextrix and Hornby layouts. Kiddy bliss! EDIT: was it called Modern Toys or something like that?
General Smuts Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 Brantano's had a ball pit as well. But Children's World was slide mecca. I had my first kiss at Children's World. Never even got her name.
Webbo Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 Okay, one for the even older folks... what was the toy shop opposite the old Cannon/ABC cinema? It was huge and had working Scalextrix and Hornby layouts. Kiddy bliss! EDIT: was it called Modern Toys or something like that? There was a Modern Toys almost opposite the ABC it's a Nepalese restaurant now.
Guest Bilo Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 Brantano's had a ball pit as well. But Children's World was slide mecca. I had my first kiss at Children's World. Never even got her name. Were you ever an innocent child?!
marko Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 I used to love Children's World. Anyone else remember the small basketball courts in JJB when it first opened? They were amazing!
Bayfox Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 They were owned by boots, 52 shops nationwide and i think the first one to open was on fosse park in 1987! what year was fosse park built??? i dont remember a childrens world there. and the childrens at belgrave flyover was there before that. i know as i actually got lost in there once!!!!
Raw Dykes Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 what year was fosse park built??? i dont remember a childrens world there. and the childrens at belgrave flyover was there before that. i know as i actually got lost in there once!!!! Fosse Park was built in 1989. I can't remember a Children's World there, either.
Nick Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 It had a lift inside. Rumour has it, some people went in there once under the influence of LSD and after three or four hours were asked to leave having spent way too much time in the lift and being with toys.
Hollism Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 what year was fosse park built??? i dont remember a childrens world there. and the childrens at belgrave flyover was there before that. i know as i actually got lost in there once!!!! I'm sure Fosse Park was built in the seventies
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 No such luxuries for me in the late forties and fifties.
DJMadness29 Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 According to wiki fosse shopping park was opened in 1989. I remember them having the santa at xmas upstairs and used to spend ages playing on the slide, wasnt the ball pit underneith the slide...
Webbo Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 I'm sure Fosse Park was built in the seventies It wasn't.
Phube Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 Definitely no Children's World in Fosse park. Original shops (according to my young (then) brain): Toy 'R' Us M&S Olympus Sports Do I All Next Maccy D's Ooh need help: For between Toys 'R' Us and Next, and Next and Do It All Edit: Comet was next to Toys 'R' Us! This is driving me and the Mrs. mad!
Webbo Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 Definitely no Children's World in Fosse park. Original shops (according to my young (then) brain): Toy 'R' Us M&S Olympus Sports Do I All Next Maccy D's Ooh need help: For between Toys 'R' Us and Next, and Next and Do It All Edit: Comet was next to Toys 'R' Us! This is driving me and the Mrs. mad! BHS
Webbo Posted 12 August 2012 Posted 12 August 2012 Nope, that took over from Toys'R Us My wife says Adams and New Look.
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