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We've W.H.Smiths in Swiss Cottage/ Finchley Rd
Bought my first album in that WHS; Adam and the Ants, Prince Charming.
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My first album came from Harlequin Records which was, coincidentally, exactly where Pullingers is today, It was Relics by Pink Floyd and cost 99p.
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Wooahh. My first album was Kings of The Wild Frontier. Purchased from Woolworths in Finchley Central :) Am I really that old!!
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We've W.H.Smiths in Swiss Cottage/ Finchley Rd (post office) also one remaining in Kilburn. I've some "decent" memories of the Brent Cross W.H.Smiths with our late grandmother going there grabbing... multi coloured rubber eraser pack / zipper pencil case / protractor set / shatter proof ruler / pencil sharpener. This was some horrid school situation that involved... curriculum forced school torment, horrid lunch brakes, disgusting swimming pools, agenda bending comments, defiance / detention / poor grades / Meh overload. (thank Christ the school was pulled down BUT have the memories when I think hard enough about that shite and being bored stiff within the first few weeks of 1st grade OR utter dread / fear of realising junior situation was over / no longer milk monitor / end of the reading corner).
At least W.H.S Brent Cross had C&A
nearby which was once trendy more like the Urban Outfitters of the 80's and long before Arcadia group
Topman/Topshop.
Plus grandmothers nice cooking and chilling out watching "Skippy"- "Flipper" of course memories I shall cherish forever.
(Despite W.H.Smiths being involved at some level they once where "the" decent stationers and suppliers of Parker pens / Casio etc).