UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

The entrance to the Museum of Shops in Eastbourne is in Cornfield Road and the frontage looks like an old shop itself.  We just made it before a group of French kids descended on the place!
 

Once inside the Museum of Shops we wandered the 'streets' looking in all the shop windows as we went and luckily had the whole place to ourselves as February is hardly peak tourist season.

This shop in Eastbourne's Museum of Shops had a collection of china egg cups and ordainments.  There was rather a lot of stuff crammed into most of the exhibits we thought.
 

In the Grocer's shop this swarve looking shopkeeper seemed to stock everything, some of the products undoubtedly wouldn't be allowed now!  How We Lived Then!

No, they didn't have digital cameras in the olden days Belinda!  Just cumbersome looking box brownies here in the photography store.
 

Here we have the Chemist's products laid out on the counter, all with the labels neatly facing the customers.  Did shopkeepers really dress like this?

Here's the Tobacconist's shop frontage.
 

Er, Mike, something you recognise there from your youth?!!  This is the hardware store.  Some of the product promotion was rather drab we thought with its dull labelling, but that was how it was in the olden days.

A collection of old beers on the shelf here in the Off Licence.  It was a pity about the layer of dust over many of the exhibits at the Museum of Shops in Eastbourne, sadly suggesting a lack of upkeep.

Er, Belinda, they're closed.  Pubs had funny opening times and were closed in the afternoons in the olden days!  Eastbourne's Museum of Shops was fascinating and well worth the visit we thought.