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Shops and Hobbies in Slough, Berkshire*

Slough, Berkshire Clothes, Magazines, Art, Galleries, Hobbies

Clothes Shops, Shoe Shops, Fashion and Bargains

• For the total in authentic ' Slough Chav' look. JJB in the Queensmere. (This look only works if you have a Britwell Belly - see McDonalds)
• TOPSHOP
• Topshop is heaven
• If you wanna get some proper safe skate clobber for cheap check out TK Maxx, bought Zoo York and Dickies stuff there myself... or go to Hardedge in Maidenhead, or BBC in Wycombe to get fleeced
• TK MAX!
• Usual Pap, go to maidenhead there's a skate shop,can't remember the name, sorry
• slough high street but lyk newhere else in slough u likely 2 get mugged!
• Denim and Hide in the corner near sports soccer
• same old same old. yep they are there, and you can shop in topshop, m and s and alders, or else it is sports wera. I think there was one slighly alternative shop out on bath road, urban something, but when I wemt looking for it a few days ago, it had turned into a tile shop.. bring o some slightly alternative shops and stop everyone dressing inthe same tcky bottoms 9 above ankles) bring i some sock ships ( so people actually wear some with those cropped tracky b's and trainers) and stop the white chicken ankle thing going on!
• Oxfam - nobody in Slough can afford anything better...
• Depends on your style. There's the usual Top Shop, River Island etc. Then for all the 12 year old rude girls in Slough there's The Village shopping centre where they sell 5 skirts and 10 tops and they'll pay you to take them! Also, in Cippenham where I live they have a clothes bin near Somerfield and many a night I have seen kids rumaging around in it trying to find some clothes to wear while hanging out by the village pond.
• Barnardo's on the high street near TopShop. nice tramp always in there thats drunk and says "buy ur clothes from here girls, its cheap" whilst pointing at something i cant really mention here.
• wack smashes it
• WACK ON SLOUGH HIGH STREET IS THE BEST PLACE EVER FOR MOSCHINO ARMANI ETC
• Sweetie, save your pennies and go to a good jumble in Gerrards Cross
• Denim 'n' Hide is where all of the rude boyz get their buff garms.
• they all sell the same shit, may as well go to london or windsor than waste your time here!
• Clothes retailers in Slough have a slight problem as the product is pitched too high. This is true: just go into any clothes shop and ask how sales compare to other branches'. People like to buy cheap, so TK Maxx is succesful (in the Observatory).
• Cromwell's has been in a perpetual closing down sale since I was a teenager (i.e years ago) and is great for dirt cheap piss-poor quality t-shirts and jeans.
• River Island is a top place...i worked there even though my fellow workers were pricks
• Gap & Next - all ages.
• Next. Very Polite Staff. Setting a new standard in Slough for shop staff who elsewhere are scruffy and rude!
• Loads of clothes shops, think of the shop and we've got it, in one of the two shopping centers. Although Slough is lacking in cheap student clothes shops though.
• Ermm, windsors your best bet only 1 stop away. Unless you like TK Maxx which is near the Virgin cinema, but youll look like every other Slough pikey in last years designer Ralphys.
• Manhatten, Wack. Cheap football kits and sportswear at Sports division.
• Places NOT to shop -
  • Mister Byrite - (Queensmere) (over the top sales pitch, crap quality clothing with fashionable half life of a week. Confusing store with mirrors all over the place, funny looking staff who try unsuccessfully to find pride working there and take it out on you instead :) )
• Others in the middle of the range
  • Next (between McDonald's and B.King) : (nice tops, but no-one can really afford the stuff. Not very Sloughish gear anyway...), and snotty staff too.
  • Sport & Ski (Queensmere) : (nice bargains to be hunted in sales that never seem to end whatever time of year).. friendly staff.
  • C&A (slap bang in Queensmere) - good for seasonal wear, and you may spot a bargain when comparing prices with say Topshop/man. Good for scarves, gloves, coats etc. Staff should cheer up though... and difficult to find a job in this store...
• IN:
  • TopShop/TopMan (Observatory centre) - DEFINITELY the place to find yer gear, nice staff who'll be ever so patient while yer trying out all the shoes they stock. Nice place fer boots. Always a bargain or two to be found in the REDUCED sections, and NUS 10% discount friendly with card shown (but will give discount if you show sumthing like a young persons railcard if you flutter your eyelids properly.. ). Excellent place to get your interview suit from and return it the next day. :) Place to get jumpers and tops, I would know on the women's side of things (this goes for all the clothing recommended spots). Revival keyrings and wallets recommended. Also place to find prospective lurve... VERY friendly staff.
  • River Island (next to Boots)- Little more pricey than TopShop/Man but good bargains to be found esp in January sales if early enough. Place to purchase nice jeans and trousers. Very fashionable bags and nice to know someone working in there if you can. Attractive staff... (no offence Shin..)

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

• Slough Musium..................
• I went on your site a few weeks ago to find craft shops in slough, well since then i have found a fab craft shop in Langley, Slough, sells brilliant wools, card and scrap book crafts plus load of other bits. quite a good find.Lawsons craft shop, Langley High Street. K
• GO INTO ETON HIGH STREET...
• Forget, Slough is such a cultural vacuum anything resembling art gets destroyed or has the piss ripped out of it for being "Gay"
• King's highway music 49 the village shopping Centre slough Sell gifts and music and smoking papers
• The only kind of art gallery I can think of in Slough is what gets exhibited at the end of the academic year at Langley college. Go support some local talent.
• The indoor market (The Village Shopping Centre) is a great place although a little hard to find. I just got a picture framed really cheap, picked up new habby stuff and bought meat all in one visit. But watch out, it seems to change on a daily basis shops come and go all the time.
• For art and craft materials your best bet is to get in the car and drive up the Bath road towards Taplow, past Sainsburys to the Bishops Centre.
• Bugger all... i think the tweeist stuff comes on the endless market... anf the vaguely less twee on the french market when that comes, but seriously I have not seen one vaguely alternative shop, let alone trendy, and I come fro Loughborough,ebven they boast a higher mix of vaguely different. Unless I wanted to buy a present from top shop/next/ alders/ mand s i wouldn't know where to begin! Good old school games in the charity shops, but seeing there is a university campus kicking around, you'd think there's be the odd 'student' oreientated shop... have i missed the naff 70'ds nights and 'hippy chivk' - or something similsar named shops, if is slough just better the=an that. Would be nice to see the odd crafty/ jewellery/cardy shop though
• Some art/craft complex on the way to taplow on the A4. Missus thinks it is brilliant!
• None. No-one in Slough cares about the arts - unless you consider tatooing to be an art form, then I know someone who can do tatooes really cheap - he's blind in one eye and has a drugs problem though, so don't go in the morning coz he often has the shakes. He's very good though.
• you are having a laugh, although in the market they have a piercing shop.
• Arts and Crafts andSlough dont go together.....goto Windsor for this maybe. +
• arts and crafts?! u should be so lucky! this is SLOUGH we're talking about but if u want makeup [which is kinda arty in a sense] then go to The Perfume Warehouse in the Observatory opposite topshop. lots of cheapo makeup there. if u want art galleries then i suggest u head up onto the parlaunt estate where we have the amazing art deco towers [stunning, take a camera], or u could go down to chalvey where u can muse at the talent of the local artists as they spray their names onto any clean wall within arms reach. lots of critical analysis to be done here. but we cant forget the amazing architecture of the power station towers. if u stare @ them for long enough they look lopsided. amazing.........must be some deep meaning in that. maybe everything in slough is bent..........hmmm.........
• None in slough its just not that kind of place now Windsor and Eton yes Slough no
• Nothing artistic happens in Slough
• the centre on the farnham road do exhibitions every now and then. SYPC@the corner are currently setting up an arts academy to start later in 2001
• There is the Slough museum!
• Presence & Eye of the Storm (Hippy type shop)
• Slough has a market that is quite craft like. Hardly like shops found in nearby Windsor though.
• none, no culture in this god foresaken town
• Some good graffiti down the train tracks linking slough and windsor.
• There is a new wacky craft shop open in the Obseretry that sells lava lamps and inflatable sofas its called Precents.

Magazine and Comic Shops

• SEE GAMES!
• None, well unless you count WHsmith
• The nearest comic shops are in Reading, more's the pity. Try Escape or Blackwells Bookshop on Friar Street. Alternatively you'll have to drive out to Aldershot where the excellent Comics Plus is right by the train station.
• One-Stop in Cippenham and Village store in Cippenham. Got some good porno's in them before.
• used to be 1 slough, dunno where it is
• If WH Smith, Ottakarsandotherassorted newsagents count then yes we have some. If they dont count then nooo.....we have none. Used to have one comic shop, went bust. +
• THESE ARE ALL ASIAN OWNED AND ARE ON EVERY CORNER
• WH Smith - that's about the only one
• Whats on Whats up - Sloughs finest free magazine for 16-25 year olds available FREE from high street shops and community centres
• WHSmith on High Street. Don't park on the adjacent road (vandals and drug-dealers' hangout) - use Queensmere/Observatory parking.
• Other than the usual shops selling magazines. A shop called Slough Computers deals in Comic books, quite a large selection.
• Good Comic shop in the Observatory.
• Universal comics was at the Sports bar but has now closed down.Slough computers has a wide range of comics.
• Should still be there, if you walk towards the Police station from outside the library then a few doors to the left of Stows Bike centre there's a specialist.

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