Old Shops on Boar Lane.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Fri 17 Oct, 2008 11:47 pm

sundowner wrote: Allso on the left just before City Square Regam Electrics next to them was an Oxfam shop i think. Wonderful shop was Regam Electrics - they seemed to sell anything and everything electrical, even spares for obsolete appliances. I believe they moved to the bottom of Eastgate from Boar Lane.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 18 Oct, 2008 2:39 pm

BLAKEY wrote: sundowner wrote: Allso on the left just before City Square Regam Electrics next to them was an Oxfam shop i think. Wonderful shop was Regam Electrics - they seemed to sell anything and everything electrical, even spares for obsolete appliances. I believe they moved to the bottom of Eastgate from Boar Lane. I believe the owner's name was actually Mager.

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Sat 18 Oct, 2008 4:34 pm

Trojan wrote: BLAKEY wrote: sundowner wrote: Allso on the left just before City Square Regam Electrics next to them was an Oxfam shop i think. Wonderful shop was Regam Electrics - they seemed to sell anything and everything electrical, even spares for obsolete appliances. I believe they moved to the bottom of Eastgate from Boar Lane. I believe the owner's name was actually Mager. Hi Trojan Hi BLAKEY Your so right about Regam i think there main warehouse was in the area opposite the university I think i once had to go there for a spare part.Dont know about the owner but he did have a well stocked shop first place i went if i needed a spare part.

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Sat 18 Oct, 2008 5:29 pm

sundowner wrote: Trojan wrote: BLAKEY wrote: sundowner wrote: Allso on the left just before City Square Regam Electrics next to them was an Oxfam shop i think. Wonderful shop was Regam Electrics - they seemed to sell anything and everything electrical, even spares for obsolete appliances. I believe they moved to the bottom of Eastgate from Boar Lane. I believe the owner's name was actually Mager. Hi Trojan Hi BLAKEY Your so right about Regam i think there main warehouse was in the area opposite the university I think i once had to go there for a spare part.Dont know about the owner but he did have a well stocked shop first place i went if i needed a spare part. regam's are still trading from a building down macauly street mabgate,i was there last week to pick up some rubber hose for my mams washing machine,brilliant bloke who owns it,i dont know his name but he always goes out of his way to help me when i go there.

sundowner · Post by **sundowner** » Sat 18 Oct, 2008 7:33 pm

Brandy wrote: sundowner wrote: Trojan wrote: BLAKEY wrote: sundowner wrote: Allso on the left just before City Square Regam Electrics next to them was an Oxfam shop i think. Wonderful shop was Regam Electrics - they seemed to sell anything and everything electrical, even spares for obsolete appliances. I believe they moved to the bottom of Eastgate from Boar Lane. I believe the owner's name was actually Mager. Hi Trojan Hi BLAKEY Your so right about Regam i think there main warehouse was in the area opposite the university I think i once had to go there for a spare part.Dont know about the owner but he did have a well stocked shop first place i went if i needed a spare part. regam's are still trading from a building down macauly street mabgate,i was there last week to pick up some rubber hose for my mams washing machine,brilliant bloke who owns it,i dont know his name but he always goes out of his way to help me when i go there. Hi Brandy nice to know they are still here i would bet the rates put paid to the Boar Lane Shop no way would they be able to cover the rates in that area.You need to be selling cups of coffee at three pounds a cup to trade there now if you know what i mean.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sat 18 Oct, 2008 9:54 pm

sundowner wrote: Brandy wrote: sundowner wrote: Trojan wrote: BLAKEY wrote: sundowner wrote: Allso on the left just before City Square Regam Electrics next to them was an Oxfam shop i think. Wonderful shop was Regam Electrics - they seemed to sell anything and everything electrical, even spares for obsolete appliances. I believe they moved to the bottom of Eastgate from Boar Lane. I believe the owner's name was actually Mager. Hi Trojan Hi BLAKEY Your so right about Regam i think there main warehouse was in the area opposite the university I think i once had to go there for a spare part.Dont know about the owner but he did have a well stocked shop first place i went if i needed a spare part. regam's are still trading from a building down macauly street mabgate,i was there last week to pick up some rubber hose for my mams washing machine,brilliant bloke who owns it,i dont know his name but he always goes out of his way to help me when i go there. Hi Brandy nice to know they are still here i would bet the rates put paid to the Boar Lane Shop no way would they be able to cover the rates in that area.You need to be selling cups of coffee at three pounds a cup to trade there now if you know what i mean. When I started work in the early sixties, I worked in the stores of an electrical contractor. Regam were one of their suppliers - washing machine parts I think. Other electrical wholesalers, were Sun Electrical (just off Whitehall Road) Arthur F Tobbell, Park Square (I think) and Carling and Wright, and Gratrix.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Sun 19 Oct, 2008 12:58 am

Didn't Regam move to Call Lane at one point? I remember an old fashioned electrical shop opposite the Ivy Leaf cafe. Behind the muriel.