While at Gunnersbury Boys school in the late 80s in Boston Manor, we’d go into Northfields after school, or I would. Would visit the small magic shop and I’ve been thinking about it over the years.
I watch a lot of Michael Vincent who’s a master at slight of hand
https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelVincentMagic
He’d talk about Alan Alan’s old magic shop and searching for images fine this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Alan
The inside of the story just gave me images of the Northfields one but I just couldn’t find any images. Someone on Reddit knew it and found some. Unfortunately due to the new stupid ID verification law in the UK (that doesn’t work), imgur is blocked, so I grabbed them off them and have stuck them here.
First image is what the store front changed to (before it shutdown long ago). What I was remembering was the store front of the second image.
That 2nd one is the store front I remember from the 80s. I believe its also where I bought my original stripper deck cards (cards that are slightly tapered one end). Its also where we’d pick up the poppers that were popular end of the 80s.
