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Shops and Hobbies in St Helens, Merseyside*

St Helens, Merseyside Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• What was the shop called on the corner opposite evans its now a card shop used to be river island?
• THE RETRO METRO ON WESTFEILD STREET, PATTERNS OF FLATTERY ALSO ON WESTFEILD STREET AND RUST ON CHURCH STTREET
• Sidewalk, $h1t7, but all we had
• OH MY LORD HAVE YOU SEEN HOW THEY DRESS, TOTALLY VOID OF EITHER STYLE OR SIZE (ei they don"t seem to know how fat they are) SHOPS ARE FULL OF LOUD SPANTEX CRAP, BUT THEY DO HAVE A WOOL SHOP (NO NOT SELLING FAT SLAPPERS AND MORONS WITH A SKIN HEAD PLUS FRINGE AND THE OBLIGOTRY EARRING). REALLY IT SELLS WOOL.
• TOPSHOP cos its brill n fab n everyone who works there is stunning (like me who also works there)
• Clothes in St Helens, You are better off wearing a Bin Bag & a pair of Patent Leather Shoes from Dolcis
• Girl Talk, is the best girlie shop in St>helens ODs the best boys shop in St>Helens
• Sidewalk occasionally has some paul smith otherwise forget it. Manchester and leeds for me.
• NEW CLOTHES SHOPS THAT ARE OPENING UP ARE A LOAD OF TURD AS THERE IS NOTHING DIFFERENT TO ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY EXCEPT MAYBE A FLUCTUATION IN THE PRICE OF THE SHITE THAT YOU ARE BUYING! BUT KEEP YOURE EYES OPEN IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE FASHIONS AS THERE ARE SEVERAL NEW MARKET STALLS COMING UP FOR CHEAP STUFF SO YOU WONT HAVE TO GO TO MANCHESTER OR LIVERPOOL FOR ALL YOUR WIERD NEEDS!
• Clothes shops seem to focus on women in St Helens as there are no decent mens clothes shops
• No one mentioned Fancy Dress....Charades in Vincent St for interesting party gear!
• SPORTS SHOPS SPORTS SHOPS AND MORE SPORTS SHOPS WE NEED MORE GIRLIE SHOPS
• no one's mentioned Gas stop have they?? well its pretty decent..but again to pick up sum decent clobber u have to travel in my opionon. CJ
• Elle for fab clothes and friendly staff.It's a bit of a trek from the centre of town but worth the effort as the labels are great and the prices reasonable ( cheaper than the cities for the same items!)
• £4.60 gets a return ticket to chester. thats were you find the good shops
• St.helens ia a terrible place for shopping especially to see the sight of the slags that work in new look (although it is gradually getting better).
• St Helens - sponsored by Burtons. You couldn't get into most town centre pubs in St Helens without wearing the latest fashion designs courtesy of Mr Burton. You'd get into the pub and find 3 other sad blokes wearing the very same top they bought earlier that day.
• tontine market has a desirable summer range out designed for the st helens womens budget and figure
• OD'S ( OWNED BY A TOSSER WHO THINKS ITS WORTH PAYIN 400 QUID 4 A PIAR OF GLOVES ), SIDEWALK-CHEEP AND NASTY
• tj hughes
• Everything for the aspiring scall-about-town. You can buy your shell suit and reebok trainers to wear by day and your nice shirt/shoes/trousers ensemble to look identicle to everbody else by night.
• What clothes shops are there. If it wasn'f for Liverpool I 'd be wearing plastic pants from newlook with a nice tatran cardi from bon marche.
• just drive to liverpool instead,its a billion times better and you dont have to fight your way through crap to find any thing decent(if there is anything that is)
• Ken Jeffreys on Bridge Street. Need I say more? I got my first ever pair of jeans from Tesco in Bridge Street (yes, there actually was one - opposite the Nelson). I got my first blazer for Cowley Boys in the men's department at Stores (Helena House). It was cheaper than Tyrers, but the buttons fell off.
• JD SPORTS IN CHURCH STREET HAS THE BEST LOOKING LADS IN ST.HELENS WORKING FOR THEM!! CHECK THEM OUT!!
• St.Helens is really bad for clothes shops they are all sports, mobile phone and card shops there is only about 2 decent clothes shops.
• I want a Bon-Blea shop-it sells kids and womens tracksuits really cheap
• i think capilito roma's good and OD's
• There was only one shop - Ruffles! I think everyone must have been naked before this opened, what a godsend!
• Very little, unless you like sportswear or Burtons, particularly as a bloke.
• The Clothes shops are RUBBISH..We have no OASIS, No WAREHOUSE, NO PRINCIPLES, NO FRENCH CONNECTION,..Oh but we do have NEXT ..big wow and a River Island, shock!!!..We need more clothe shops for girlies and some bloody good shoe shops, Dolicis as even gone!!!!..Ps we also have a Wallis ..Yippee
• There is not just Burtons in StHelens. We have Capolito, OD's, Blue Note, Sidewalk,Main Street all offering a good selection of designer clothes. Burtons Is crap anyway!
• All the secondhand shops ( a tour of these can be easily achieved in a small circular radius )
• The only mens shop in St Helens is Burtons - if you buy anything there and go out at thenight, everyone has teh same top on
• Next is in the La Grange Arcade near Boots. there also a BHS (nice cardies for sale)
• Sidewalk, Blue Note & OD's for designer wear.

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

• a touch of class its in wigan, standish area realy good shop for unusual iteams, if you know were the wigan tree pub is at parr bold head into wigan from there and you'l find it on the main road left hand side
• craft shop for hobbies north road great place
• 5@thegallery FAB artwork and jewelry
• This is just to publicise a new exhibition Absolutely Anumal featuring equestrian and animal artists from the North West. This exhibition strats on April 1st and runs through to the 29th April. It is being held at the St Helens Hilton Hotel to coincide with the Grand National meeting at Aintree. Open to all visitors who can enjoy viewing some spectacular art whilst enjoying a meal of just a cup of cpoffee in the Stylish contemporary atrium. For more information visit the Absolutely Animal website www.absolutelyanimal.co.uk
• 2 art shops in st.helens that are in town one behind wilkies and one opposite new nexus which is being sold
• St helens Glass Musium.
• art shop next to blockbuster
• The George Street Quarter.
• try the cultural (ha ,ha) quarter. the st helens star are always banging on about some gallery thats opened up there ,although i haven't been there myself yet.if anyone is interested in local history then the friends meeting house next to the raven sometimes put on a decent exhibition.
• art gallery at the libary
• a fella on claughton street does saint paintings
• need more nice shops with different and unusual things to buy. the world of glass museum shop is good.
• that paint shop behind wilkinsons
• rennies rule
• There's only two model shops - one on North Road near the roudabout not far from the YMCA and the other is up near Lidl but if you'll blink you'll miss it. In fact you can walk into it and miss it.
• Rennies arts and crafts in st helns class... we nee3d a paperchase tho!!! manchester!!!
• That old museum thing with the terrifying dummies...the fake house with the piano and shit.
• sherdley show art and crafts tent - get a povvy tattoo that lasts an hour and some fudge thats gone off smells of petty and your tarot on a computer !
• RINGS AND'TINGS JAMAICAN CRAFT SHOP
• bukkaka begind chain lane shops
• Museum in Lincoln house (If the council havent closed it - I used to work for them and could tell ya a few things).
• St Helens M.B.C a bit like a museum just not intresting.
• I like all things pine on Duke street .. You can get some lovely little gifts from there. I have also bought some beautiful furniture aswell.. Sandie and Sandra are really nice and always give you a nice cup of coffee
• Pilkington's Glass Museum

Magazine and Comic Shops

• PAPER CUTZ,HOLY PUNCHER,
• Theres a shop near st.helens college thats got the biggest selction of porn mags in the world
• that paper shop down north road flogged e a few porno's as a kid
• WOOLY BACKS CAN'T READ SO DON'T NEED ONE.
• Wilf's now defunct emporium of delights on Greenfield Road.
• John Menzies, and yes, Alan strikes again
• George Townley's Newsagents in Cambridge Rd. Top bloke running a top shop.
• Cowley's Newsagents at Windle Island stocked an impressive selection of Wank Mags including Flaps apart classics like Hustler. I reckon old Mr Cowley used to shut up early and wank himself silly
• XXX SHOP
• Haysies- Eccleston. Magazine sellectino slightly lacking and the owner is a mizzerable old ****. Nice array of confectionary though.
• does anyone remember harry andrews dirty book shop at the back of the riv
• Wainwrights is brill(is that a comic shop)
• Townleys Newsagents is cool because it sells RART UP T' TASH the Saints fanzine.
• No self respecting superhero would be seen here.
• That newsagents in Duke St used to be nack mag heaven, used to be full of pervs.
• SFX magazine.. thats science fiction not something that was bought from private lines, which I think is now shut(thank god)
• WHSmiths or Woolworths - WHSmiths is by far better and there is nowhere else in town centre. Try out of town newsagents. Parry's is small but nice and friendly on Kiln Lane in Dentons Green.

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