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High Streets (Grundy's Wonders)
(Grundy's Wonders)
John Grundy has been searching high and low to bring us the lowdown on high streets.
Whether it's called Main Street, Broad Street, Front Street or even just plain High Street, the main shopping street is the most important part of any town. John's journey through the North East, from Northumberland to North Yorkshire, starts in his own local High Street at Gosforth in Newcastle. While Gosforth certainly has its fair share of shops, it's not quite up to the mark. That's despite the fact that the area was John's favourite suburb in the first programme of this entertaining series.
At Alnwick and nearby Warkworth in Northumberland, John's fascinating history lesson explains how burgage plots became burger bars and how ancient laws, which divided up High Streets, decided the shape of shops to come. Barnard Castle is a brilliant example too of how the size of elegant town houses dictated the look of the main shopping street. The County Durham market town has examples of shops from almost every era.Stokesley in North Yorkshire is also a contender for this week's Grundy's Wonder award, although quite where Barbie and a fish and chip shop fit in is intriguing. As for this week's victim of 'Grundy's Great Boot Of History', see if you can guess which North East high street has "ghastly, megalomaniac, smash-your-face-in sort of architecture".
From the high street to the information superhighway: shopping undergoes a makeover.
The 1980s heralded a sea change in the way we shopped - and what we shopped for. Reflecting the growing impact of new technologies, from the arrival of credit cards to the consumer electronics boom and ultimately the internet shopping age, this collection also journeys through the changing face of our high streets into the 1990s and beyond.
This is the era of out-of-town supermarkets and supersized shopping malls muscling in on the traditional town centre trade. Many smaller villages faced the loss of local shops entirely, but they didn't give up without a fight. Alongside these existential threats, local news reports investigate such emerging issues as convenience food labelling, shoplifting and the campaign to 'Buy British' as domestic manufacturing continued its long and painful decline.
Glimpses of long-lost chain stores, brands and products that once dominated everyday life across the UK may inspire more than a whiff of nostalgia. Yet this collection also tells a story of continuity: despite the all-powerful internet, we do still seem to want to come together to shop in the 'real world', not least at Christmas, and those seasonal shopping moments are here waiting to be unwrapped
33 videos in this collection
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Shopping
Newcastle upon Tyne
1999
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Shoplifting Is On The Increase
Chelmsford
1983
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Dog: Dog Days
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Post-Christmas Sales
Belfast
1984
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Toy Fair 1980
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Charm School
St Austell
1989
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Round Robin: Think British
Norwich
1982
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Debden Village Shop Re-opens
Debden
1982
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Anderson and McAuley Department Store
Belfast
1986
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Credit Card Shopping in Northampton
Northampton
1986
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Villagers Open Community Shop
Stetchworth
1984
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St George's Market
Belfast
1980
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Shopping Centre Santas
Belfast
1984
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Yvonne Aston is the New Outsize Model
St Ives
1985
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Chinese Supermarket in Nottingham
Nottingham
1985
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Big Night Out Shopping
Belfast
1985
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E Numbers in Everyday Popular Products
Norwich
1985
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Battle Goes On Over Sunday Trading
Cambridge
1986
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Counterfeit Goods
Hornchurch
1987
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CD Video is the Future
Belfast
1988
Shop Safely on the Net: Virtual Mail (BSL / subtitles)
