Window Shopping?

Out and about in Harrogate yesterday, I came upon the following Retail Experiences. The featured photo shows the collection of dogs and cats greeting me as I passed them on the pavement.

Here’s a tobacconist’s shop (who knew such a thing existed any more?) with a reindeer and Father Christmas bursting through the plate glass window. Well, they were rather late delivering.

Lastly, there’s a – well, I don’t quite know what to call it – Quirky Notions and Ephemera shop. These characters greeted me as I wandered in, then out again.

The rain started to fall, then deluge, and I scurried away.

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

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      4. In fact there are increasing numbers of good coffee hunts. Manna, up Cold Bath Road and opposite those doggies is a good bakery cum-café. Bean and Bud down Commercial Street is a coffee and tea specialist, but less good on sweet treats. Other suggestions welcomed from locals, as I’m out of the loop now.

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    1. You’re right. Unlit tobacco has an interesting spicy sort of smell. Lit up, it’s is a different story. I did a post-grad year at University, back in the days when smoking in lectures was considered OK. Five, yes five of my fellow-students smoked pipes. It was beyond unpleasant.

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  8. That Santa and reindeer / broken window display is certainly novel! If the point of a shop window display is to make you stop and take notice, that one is definitely doing its job 😀

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  12. Liking Santa and his reindeer, very quirky, but not so keen on the other figures at the tobacconists! A bit of racial stereotyping there I’d say. Interesting that Peter could tell you the exact date he gave up his pipe. My dad smoked a pipe until sometime in my teens and he could probably have told you exactly the same thing!

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    1. Exactly. That’s why I didn’t put him centre – stage. Though I – probably wrongly – associate that sort of stereotyping with pipe-smokers. Sorry, Anabel’s dad and Peter!

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    1. You’ll need to walk up Cold Bath Road – ask for directions it’s directly off the part of the Stray where you will be. It’s on the left, just opposite a bakery and coffee-stop every bit as good as Betty’s! But Betty’s is the place for a special treat. Enjoy!

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      1. I didn’t see the pavement pets in the end but I did go in that very eclectic shop with the strange sofa couple. Instantly recognised them from your post!

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  18. Interesting to see the statue in the doorway of the tobacconist’s – they were a common feature in these shops in the 19th century. I wonder if this is an original or a copy.

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    1. I wonder too. You do however see them not infrequently in junk/antique shops so they may not be all that hard to come by in an age when they’re not sought after.

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