Nottingham's most opinionated greengrocers tells us their thoughts on antiques, Beeston and VHS tapes.
Antiques
Well, if you go out on town on a Saturday night you’ll find enough antiques - dragons and dinosaurs and fossils. Derby Road used to be the place for antiques, and if you know what you’re doing you can pick up some good stuff, but it’s hard work. We can’t be bothered with them though - we don’t have anything of any value. But Hopkinsons used to be an ironmongers and they had everything in the world.
Beeston
It used to be owned by Barton buses. It’s delightful - a nice gentle place. It’s not loud or lavish, and quite clean as well. You’d think all the students would make it louder but far from it - students have got work to do. And of course when The Beatles split up Paul McCartney played his first gig at the Pavilion at Highfields. Then they pulled it down, it was like a glorified wooden shed really.
VHS
We don’t have a video player and we never went to the video shop on a Friday night. We were in town drinking. Maybe our parents had one though. However, we were in Sisson and Parkers years ago when it was on Wheeler Gate and we bought a collection of Pathé tapes - sixty of them - so it was all the history of Pathé news. They were great. But we must have a video player…
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