Silly Commuting Shop Names

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  • WildCorgi
    WildCorgi Posts: 2
    Two London hair dressers:

    Scissors Palace in the Barbican

    Ryan Hair in Buckingham Palace Road.
  • d21dga
    d21dga Posts: 113
    duncedunce wrote:
    Both on commute:

    Curl up and Dry (Hairdresser, New Cross, London)

    There's one in Leeds called Curl Up and Dye
  • pst88
    pst88 Posts: 621
    There is a Curl Up and Dye on my old road too in Kings Heath, Birmingham. I guess its not that unique a name after all. Not a real shop but in an episode of Family Guy there is a clothes shop called Britches and Hose.
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  • prawny
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    I'm going to start up an insurance brokers called Allcock and Nobles.
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  • Chewy Cheeks
    Chewy Cheeks Posts: 234
    Not a shop but still makes me chucke.

    The Cement Mixers with " Jim'll mix it" on the barrel. Seeing them
    around town a lot at the moment.

    In the same font as the orginal series.
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  • King Donut
    King Donut Posts: 498
    Kebab shop on wheels called Jason's Doner Van has it's own Facebook appreciation society
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    There's a Chinese restaurant on a slightly alternate commute called, "Wok you like?". Doesn't beat the one in Newcastle called, "Wok this way" though.

    Flash - There's a poodle parlour near work called, "Doggy Style".
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    King Donut wrote:
    Kebab shop on wheels called Jason's Doner Van has it's own Facebook appreciation society

    :lol:

    The two I previously contributed on another thread are:

    Abra Kebabra - Kebab Shop

    The Vinyl Resting Place - Now closed record shop in my local area

    As I'm rather bored at present I might go out on a reckie at lunch and report back on any interesting shop names I find in Woking town centre and before anyone comments, YES it is that boring down here, there's only so many times you can go round the 2 smallish shopping centres and find something new to look at :-D
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  • schlepcycling
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    There's a dog boarding kennels near me called 'Muttlins'.
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  • King Donut
    King Donut Posts: 498
    Bassjunkieuk wrote:
    King Donut wrote:
    Kebab shop on wheels called Jason's Doner Van has it's own Facebook appreciation society

    :lol:

    The two I previously contributed on another thread are:

    Abra Kebabra - Kebab Shop

    Mmmmm Kebab. Isn't abrakebabra a big chain in Ireland?
  • matt581
    matt581 Posts: 219
    There is a building firm in Bristol, I've seen there vans driving around, called 'Beaver Maintenance'.

    Always makes me chuckle :lol:
  • gert_lush
    gert_lush Posts: 634
    matt581 wrote:
    There is a building firm in Bristol, I've seen there vans driving around, called 'Beaver Maintenance'.

    Always makes me chuckle :lol:

    Yup there is some scaffolding on my road from them, always good to look out the window and see some beaver
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  • Citizen Smith
    Citizen Smith Posts: 336
    Fish & Chip shop in Walkley, Sheffield, "New Cod on the Block". Genius!
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  • d21dga
    d21dga Posts: 113
    There used to be a fast food outlet in Leeds market called 'Ken's Tuck In Fried Chicken'. Not sure if it's still there or not.
  • rhext
    rhext Posts: 1,639
    There's a kebab shop I pass called 'Nads'. Wouldn't ordinarily be that funny, apart from the fact that I first spotted it after reading a Daily Mash article commenting on the high proportion of testicle in the average doner. At least they're up front about it!

    There's also a local car valeting business called 'Amber Valet', but you have to live in the Amber Valley to get that one!
  • GraemeT
    GraemeT Posts: 155
    Knobs and Knockers in the metro centre selling brass door furniture.
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  • Poacher
    Poacher Posts: 165
    There used to be a tandoori place on Carlton Hill in Nottingham called Shamrat Tandoori. Made me want to open a rival establishment called Fakemous' Kebabs.
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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    After having a trek past the all the big name stores on the main high street the best I could find at the moment was a coffee shop call Lickety Split. I was hoping it was a stamp collecting store as that would have made the name a bit more interesting :-)
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  • DonDaddyD
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    Kebaby and Kebabery in Loughton and/or Epping in Essex.

    Can't remember which one was drunk and tired.
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  • attica
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    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Kebaby and Kebabery in Loughton and/or Epping in Essex.

    Can't remember which one was drunk and tired.

    A drunk and tired Kebab shop - Jeez, I bet the hygiene really starts to slip when they get tipsy
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  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Attica wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Kebaby and Kebabery in Loughton and/or Epping in Essex.

    Can't remember which one was drunk and tired.

    A drunk and tired Kebab shop - Jeez, I bet the hygiene really starts to slip when they get tipsy

    :lol:

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  • dresbo
    dresbo Posts: 129
    I used to go past this, but I changed my route.

    Somewhere in Kennington on the way to Brixton is

    Mogadishu Butchers (actually Mogadishu Halal Meat but still gives me a little chuckle)

    Just the sort of quality meat you're looking for.

    In Ealing where I used to live there was a bedding shop called

    "Daniel's Bedding Centre"

    which I thought sound a lot like Daniel Beddingfield, but now I look at it perhaps it's not that funny.

    In Camberwell green there's also a salon called

    Genesis
    (The start of hair trends)

    with the text in brackets underneath just in case you didn't know what it meant. I looked on google maps but I can't seem to see it. I'll have to check when I go past this evening.

    There's also a record shop called

    'Vinyl Resting Place'

    just near my house (although that's closed down too!). That's got to be the best name ever.
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    dresbo wrote:

    'Vinyl Resting Place'

    just near my house (although that's closed down too!). That's got to be the best name ever.

    :-D Another local!
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  • thrip
    thrip Posts: 6
    "Vinyl Solution" is (was?) in Portobello Rd

    I've always quite fancied having a photography supply shop called "Someday My Prints Will Come". Not enough to open one though.

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  • davmaggs
    davmaggs Posts: 1,008
    "Floors for Thought" near Luciano LBS (clapham junction).
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Attica wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Kebaby and Kebabery in Loughton and/or Epping in Essex.

    Can't remember which one was drunk and tired.

    A drunk and tired Kebab shop - Jeez, I bet the hygiene really starts to slip when they get tipsy

    :lol:
    Food Chain number = 4

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  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    thrip
    Cool link! Prawnbrokers is fairly local to me and I completely forgot about them :-)
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  • dresbo
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    Prawnbrokers for me too

    I hear BassJunkieUK might hunt along my route - What do you ride? I'll keep a look out
  • thrip
    thrip Posts: 6
    Bassjunkieuk wrote:
    thrip
    Cool link! Prawnbrokers is fairly local to me and I completely forgot about them :-)

    There's even a book published of them:

    http://www.shophorror.co.uk/

    I know this because I work in a bookshop btw, not because I collect books on the subject!
  • KonaKurt
    KonaKurt Posts: 720
    There used to be a Chinese Takeaway in Oxford called "Wok This Way".
    I came across a chip shop in Newquay called "Codpiece". Like most shops in Newquay, what they sold was horrible, I couldn't bring myself to eat it.

    Checkout this link for more!
    http://www.shophorror.co.uk/pages/gallery.html

    KK.

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