Model Shops

Si · Post by Si » Mon 23 Apr, 2012 1:06 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Chrism wrote: There was also a very good model shop on Armley Road, right next to the entrance to Sammy Ledgards garage (You can just see it on the pic here http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL) can't remember the name though. It was all bicycles and stuff downstairs and upstairs was full to bursting of models and all the stuff needed. It was Cavill's bike and model shop Chrism Just discovered this thread. Must have missed it somehow.I remember Cavill's very well. The bloke behind the counter (presumably Mr Cavill) had a full head of grey hair and glasses. The walls were covered in hooks which held those Airfix kits in plastic bags with the instructions folded into the header card.The model shop I remember in Pudsey was on Chapeltown, near the Commercial. The owner was a short, balding bloke whose life would have been so much simpler if it wasn't for customers. He sold plastic kits, balsa gliders and model railway stuff, such as Superquick cardboard buildings, including one of the Albion on Armley Road. I think there was a shop by Trinity Church, Pudsey, which sold HO/OO Airfix polythene figures. I vaguely recall a model shop on Harehills Lane(?) which sold 1:1 scale guns - every thing from pirate flintlocks, to realistic modern assault rifles (probably illegal these days) with working features.There was also Britannia Models on Eastgate.I'd forgotten about those glow-in-the-dark horror figures. Aurora also made a working model of a guillotine!

Si · Post by Si » Mon 23 Apr, 2012 2:47 pm

I was beginning to think I'd imagined the guillotine model, but after a quick look on Google, here it is.Apparently, they were also going to release a rack, a hanging tree and an electric chair.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 23 Apr, 2012 2:59 pm

Si wrote: I was beginning to think I'd imagined the guillotine model, but after a quick look on Google, here it is.Apparently, they were also going to release a rack, a hanging tree and an electric chair. Having a guillotine would be one way to get ahead. It would though be stretching it too far to get a rack and that there would be an electric chair was a shock. Still it may be fun just hanging around. Sorry for that!

jim · Post by **jim** » Mon 23 Apr, 2012 4:27 pm

Reminds me of the TV series "Me Mammy" (Milo O'Shea and Yootha Joyce). One of the characters was working on a "Build your own Protestant Atrocity" kit. Unfortunately the video tapes no longer exist, but I remember it as a very funny programme.

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Mon 23 Apr, 2012 4:31 pm

Sutcliffes, Broadgate Lane, Horsforth.Anyone remember the factory?They made model boats and they are worth a bit now.They had one on the Antiques Roadshow some time back.

keyholekate · Post by **keyholekate** » Mon 23 Apr, 2012 4:43 pm

chameleon wrote: tilly wrote: There is a very good model shop at Cross Gates if you take a right at the roundabout after Seacroft Hospital its on the right on a parade of shops its been there for a number of years now and well worth a visit. ....Originally Sherwoods, newsagents, stc, brnanched out into model boats/aircraft many years ago now and that became their major trade.I knew the sherwoods and their children as a youngster, not sure who has the business now. Roland Sherwood is still working.http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/n ... -1-3520818

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Mon 23 Apr, 2012 7:35 pm

Can't believe he's 90. Quick...I want to work in a model shop.He looks fantastic!

Keg · Post by **Keg** » Tue 24 Apr, 2012 1:08 pm

Models and Militaria were ( i think) where Bar 166 is now at the top of Horsforth.

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Tue 24 Apr, 2012 2:09 pm

What was the model shop called inside the Arndale Centre (Crossgates)?It was just about on the inside of the corner where the two corridors meet, nearly (but not exactly) under the Wimpy Bar. Don't know what's there now. It was open in 1980, I can't remember how long before and after that though.

rehtnap · Post by **rehtnap** » Tue 08 May, 2012 12:56 am

hi the shop on chapletown was hobbies international run by the grumpy guy. do you remember the fruit and veg shop on the same row run by the equally odd nearly deaf guy?