tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post1299442896080217757..comments2024-03-29T07:55:45.502+00:00Comments on Phil's Workbench: Daventry's unxepected model shop - CT NewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-9749318685078816512013-09-28T13:31:20.204+00:002013-09-28T13:31:20.204+00:00It is certainly better to come across a shop full ...It is certainly better to come across a shop full of odd and unusual things, or a combination of disparate things than nothing at all.<br />Where I live there are few model shops, and they seem to be disappearing all the time.<br />Good find, and keep up the search.Jackofallhobbieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06461830980241218802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20340207.post-56699537827645754822013-09-28T06:48:04.624+00:002013-09-28T06:48:04.624+00:00I used to pop in here quite often when my beloved ...I used to pop in here quite often when my beloved still lived in Daventry; good to see it's still there and selling some model supplies.<br /><br />The combination of newspapers and model products is unusual, but by no means unique; a mere 5 miles from where I sit typing this is the Model Shop, Woodchurch http://www.modelshopuk.com/ <br />Check out those opening times......yep, you can go and buy some quite esoteric French model railway items among other things, from a shop in rural Kent, at 5:30 in the morning!<br />They have an amazing range of stuff and I regularly find unexpected things.......for example the Sommerfeldt catenary for my tramway layout which I had resigned myself to getting mail order, sight unseen.<br /><br />I guess the combination of two seemingly quite disparate things works for both these places.....good for us as it means we can still walk in to a shop and buy things, and it's great to just browse and find stuff you never knew existed........<br />Regards,<br />Simon Hargraves.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com