Sunday, October 30, 2011

Beatties - 1975

1975 BagThanks are due to Christopher Rabson for this bit of model railway archeology - a genuine Beatties carrier bag from 1975, an even more impressive find than my 1980's example.

Looking at the addresses on the front, I thought I recognised the High Holburn one as a ModelZone shop but according to Google, it's now  McDonalds. The model shop is down the road a bit at 202.

Or is it ?

A quick search online reveals that the ghost of Beatties still exists:


What's going on here ? Spooky.

Anyway, does anyone recognise any of the other addresses ? Are any of them hosting model making related shops or they all fast food joints ?
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4 comments:

  1. Chris Nevard Model Railways & Photography6:15 PM

    I bet you carry that bag to all the shows with you packed spam sarnie lunch and thermos?

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  2. Phil Parker3:57 PM

    Nope - sadly it's not mine. But is there a hint of retro cool in that idea ? Perhaps there is a business in recreating all those old toy train store carrier bags for use at shows. It would be safer than rucksacks !

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  3. James Finister5:58 PM

    112 was, of course, originally the Basset-Lowke shop and gave its number to their popular freelance tank loco

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  4. Andy from Workshopshed6:41 AM

    I'm sure that the ModelZone shop is where the old Beatties used to be.

    There also used to be a Beatties in Carlisle on Louther street, that's long gone now.

    If found some others here.

    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clints.place/fulluk.htm

    and

    http://mdfs.net/User/JGH/Progs/University/DIR.LIS

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