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Shopping (Grundy Goes...)
(Grundy Goes...)
Architectural historian John Grundy enjoys the pleasures of shops and shopping, tracing their history from medieval market to modern shopping mall
Dressed as a medieval jester, John begins the story in Newcastle's Sunday Quayside Market - the kind of place where shopping has been done since the beginning of towns. The programme then traces the history of the shop-front, from plain shutters that let down to form a counter during the day to the culmination of shop-front design in the ornamental windows of Victorian times with their brackets, friezes and cornices. Medieval shop designs still survive in The Close beneath the High Level Bridge, Georgian windows abound in Durham's Saddler Street, and Victorian shop-fronts still exist everywhere.
This programme was shot entirely in Newcastle and Durham City, where the whole development of shop styles can be found. John takes a look at electronic shopping, department stores (Bainbridge in Newcastle was one of the first in the world), arcades and shopping malls. And he ends the programme with his admiration of modern shops like Newcastle's French Connection - "the elegant simplicity, the white walls and the pale wood, set against the hi-tech engineering of smooth steel and glass."
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)
