“We will miss having all the children around and talking to their parents. We enjoyed running it and it has been an experience. “We feel a bit sad about leaving Bagatelle. “They used to be a Bagatelle as well until the previous owner sold the Marlow shop and the name was changed. We thought Marlow Toys were the best people and went straight to them. “The lease was up and we didn’t want to get into another 10-year lease and felt it was the right time to do something else. She said: “I have been here for 12 years and my partner and close friend, Victoria, has been here for five. Mrs Clifford-Turner, who has owned the shop for 12 years, said it was the right time for her to go. They agreed the sale after being told they couldn’t renew the lease on their current premises by their landlord, Brakspear, whose headquarters are nearby. Owners Maryam Clifford-Turner and Victoria Wingfield Digby have sold the company to Marlow Toys, which has been in Marlow high street since 1975. It will reopen at the former Snappy Snaps printing shop, which closed earlier this month, on Thursday.
Fashionĭo you remember C&A? It was the anchor fashion store in the blighted Friar’s Walk shopping centre which closed in 2004. A visit to this shop on the corner of Friar Street and West Street was an event and a rite of passage for any pony-mad child. If horseriding was your hobby in the 1970s and before, Langston’s was your one-stop shop for jodhpurs, riding boots and tack. The business was established in 1892 and as recently as 2013 a vintage fur coat bearing a Brahams label turned up for sale online. This picture of traffic in Friar Street, taken in 1970, shows Brahams Furriers in the background. Here’s a trip down memory lane to remember how it once wasĬars waiting in Friar Street in November 1970 (Image: Mirrorpix) So Friar Street’s rebirth could be just around the corner. Sainsbury’s is set to be transformed into a block 139 flats, probably for students.Ī planning application to turn empty office space in the Grade II listed building at 149-159 Friar Street above Snappy Snaps into seven two-bedroom apartments is being considered by the council.
Many of these will work in Reading while others will be London workers who move to the town to take advantage of Crossrail, Mr Brannen said.
Housing on the edge of Friar Street such as The Foundry Quarter on the site of Iceland and Wickes, the £500m Station Hill mixed residential and office development and offices at Thames Tower will be packed with young, urban professionals with money to spend.
An artist's impression of what the flats which could replace Sainsbury's would look like
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