Treasure trove of untouched old toys and games found at toy shop which has been closed for years

[ddraig]

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/treasure-trove-untouched-old-toys-8972742

loads of Star Wars!! in packets!
can't be that old tho if shut in 2009

 

[el-ahrairah]

*weeps*

 

[Voley]

Woah. That's Nerd Heaven right there.

 

[Voley]

Dinky Toys, too. They fetch proper money in good nick.

 

[ddraig]

weird that it was boarded up and not emptied!

 

[lizzieloo]

can't be that old tho if shut in 2009

Bloody can (photo from your link)

 

[ddraig]

fair do's
did think some were blatantly older than 2009, stuff in a back room maybe

wonder what happened to the owners and why it was shut and left like that

 

[Pickman's model]

fair do's
did think some were blatantly older than 2009, stuff in a back room maybe

wonder what happened to the owners and why it was shut and left like that

barleymow! what d'you know about this?

 

[lizzieloo]

fair do's
did think some were blatantly older than 2009, stuff in a back room maybe

wonder what happened to the owners and why it was shut and left like that

No one wants to open a shop in Holywell?

 

[ddraig]

No one wants to open a shop in Holywell?

i meant that you'd think the owners or family or at least liquidators would have had the stock out before boarding it up!

 

[lizzieloo]

Not sure how the auction system works, I guess the family just sold the shop as it was without realising, or even looking.

Numpties

 

[chilango]

That was my old local toy shop. I used to buy Star Wars figures and tolkeinesque monitors in there !

 

[chilango]

No one wants to open a shop in Holywell?

They certainly don't!

 

[Spymaster]

Not sure how the auction system works, I guess the family just sold the shop as it was without realising, or even looking.

Sounds like some of the stuff was stored elsewhere. 120 pallets is a lot of stuff. Could've been a big shop though I suppose.

 

[chilango]

Sounds like some of the stuff was stored elsewhere. 120 pallets is a lot of stuff. Could've been a big shop though I suppose.

It wasn't.

But may have had a huge store room.

I remember it being small, dark cramped and full of dusty old packets.

 

[lizzieloo]

That bit at the back has "Frank Beech" on it too, that's a lot of space for stuff, 3 stories of weebles

 

[chilango]

That bit at the back has "Frank Beech" on it too, that's a lot of space for stuff, 3 stories of weebles

That was all storage iirc. At least I don't recall venturing very far in... It was a pretty creepy place tbh....though by then (30 years ago!) it already seemed faded and long past its hey day.

 

[lizzieloo]

Part of my job is going into places that have been boarded up for years, I dream of finding something like that