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Shops and Hobbies in Folkestone, Kent*

Folkestone, Kent Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• lots unlike hucking DOVER
• Marks and Spencer serve us over 21's very well, thank you.
• The best was Tribes proberly atill is !! It's down the old high street.
• There are no decent clothes shops - better off going to the out of town clothes retailers in Ashford
• WHY IS IT THAT FOLKESTONE GIRLS SEEM TO FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO DRESS THEM SELVES IN CLOTHES THAT DONT LOOK LIKE OXFAM REJECTS? I HOLD A CHOICE OF BONMARCHE AND MARK 1 RESPONSIBLE!
• Heavy Sole in the old high street has now closed
• Shit, shit, shit! The only shops we have are all high street. We need some more retro shops. The charidee shops aren't that bad though. The cat basket is the best by far. It doesn't over charge and they are nice women too. I've found many cool items in there.
• Yeah right, your better off going to oxfam. All the girls in Folkestone shop in New Look, so that's why they like cheap clones.
• clothes shops in folkestone u have got Mark 1, New Look, Bay trading, Debenhams, Qs(cheep shop, horrible clothes),Bwise(good 4 children)and thats about it is rubbish.
• Topman in debs, use your NUS to save a whole £1.20 Yippee!!!
• Heavy Sole -- thanks for the excellent listing, but could you add on to it that we also now stock Converse All Star footwear and clothing.
• Goto anywhere else - Everyting here is overpriced and soo last year (If something doesn't sell anywhere else - they send it to Folkestone to flog) Although, a market has now sprung up wih loads of cheap obviously fake designer labels
• Parent Trap in Cheriton high st. good for kids clothes
• Heavy Sole on the Old High Street for great Dr Marten's boots, shoes, sandals and clothes plus some Kangol stuff.
• Does anyone remeber 'Capricorn' where the Herald offices are now situated? That was a piece of early eighties trash. That and 'Teen Scene' in Rendezvous Street was the place to be for a trendy eighties chick !
• Just the usual high street stores, nothing special at all.

Arts, crafts and such (Anything from pukka art galleries to craft shops. Trendy and twee both welcome.)

• B & B project space 14 tontine street Folkestone artist run project space. www.14tontinestreet.com Club Shepway aim to develop an active and engaging culture of contemporary art and music in the Shepway (Folkestone, Hythe ect.) www.clubshepway.com
• Metropole normally has really good modern art displays, also georges gallery old high street.
• grace hill library has some good art upstairs, thats about it
• Pine Shop in the Golden Valley (near Folkestone). Some items very dear, but others dirt cheap. Some items very unusual, old and just must have. Georgeous shop. A must visit. An arts and crafts shop has opened just a few months ago at the Wyedale Garden Centre (where the fish shop uded to be). I think they have just about everything in there. Cheaper than I have seen around, arts and crafts well categorised and just georgeous stuff.
• Strange Cargo. Art Gallery. V small.
• Some fantastic art galleries and studios are springing up in the Creative Quarter. Hopefully more little craft shops will follow.
• Strange Cargo at the top of the old high street! they organise such events as Charivari, the better Carnival in Folkestone, and are involved in such things as re-vamping Central station! very good!!
• The Old High Street is being pushed as a bit of a "creative quarter", see http://www.thequarter.org.uk
• The art museum upstairs in folkestone library
• There is the main art gallery on the leas called the Metropole and a small one at the top of the Old High Street which sometimes has some great exibitions.
• The Old High Street has a few funky little shops to browse in
• The Metropole place is cool, although apparently only over 21s are allowed to look at art
• The fabulous art gallery at the Metropole - well worth a look.
• Metropole on the leas
• The Old High Street is in hte midst of a cultural renaissance. Artists are migrating to the area arouns the bottom of Sandgate Road.
• Metropole Arts center!! Allways has somethin g good on there!!!!!
• Heads is cool! It's a funky arty type shop that is run by a guy who does a lot of art work and often holds his own exhibitions. The Sasson Room in the library is good to. It's free and holds a wide range of different exhibitions. Oh and it's free.
• An absolute joke - the home of the sunday painter
• leas cliff hall and old hotel exhibitions
• Theres a good bookshop in Tontine Street called BOOKSTOP. It has thousands of secondhand books on all sorts of subjects, fact and fiction. Well worth a visit.
• The Metrapole actually does hve some good exhibitions on at times.
• The Moon Palace at the top of the Old High Street is as hippy-dippy a craft shop as you could ask for. Also sells cards, practical jokes, and trinkets.
• nothing worth noting
• The Shell Shop on the Fishmarket. Loads of general goodies for tourists, plus a very good range of crystal etc. Open from Easter through the summer till Christmas.
• Most of the shops in The Old High Street especially 'MOONBEAMS'
• Lots of neat trendy crafty little shops down the old high street
• The Moon Palace - The Most Ambient Shop of them all.
• Finbarr Books is well worth a visit for all those spooky books on The Magic of salt power to Candle Magick etc.

Magazine and Comic Shops

• There are none but there should be more!!!! Oh there is a kind of one in Tontine St I think.
• there isn't any really apart from newsagents.
• bugger all

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