Booths Supermarkets

Edwin Booth?s philosophy: Sell the best goods available, in attractive stores, staffed by first class assistants? E H Booth 1884. Think supermarkets, and most people will think of the usual culprits, Asda, Sainsbury, Safeway, Tesco?.but those privileged enough to live in the North West, near to one, will think ?Booths Supermarkets?. Not many people have heard of Booths. it?s a family run chain of 25 medium-sized stores. But they are not just stores, they are stores with star quality, if you get what I mean. Where as the ?big four?, are increasingly focusing on price, new store openings, gaining the most market share, and the ownership of the ugly ...

Whilst your neighbours bring home Sainsbury's and Tesco bags from their weekly shop on a Saturday afternoon, confuse them by going a little bit further for some quality products from booths that they have never heard of! Knutsford is my favourite with a large Bakery with delicious cakes. No small children can go round poking your unwrapped bread and cakes as it is all displayed behind a glass counter. It has a fish counter, butcher, rotisserie, florist, cafe and full deli and is the largest and most posh booths i have ever been in. I even saw Vikram from Coronation St once buying his bacofoil! I first heard of booths on my trip to Windermere where there is ...

Do you remember gasometers? Are you old enough? Well, if you’re not they were where all the gas was stored on its way to the users, before we got North Sea gas. The gasometers were large, round cylinders, usually three, which collapsed into each other as the gas was used, and moved up again as more was pumped in. You could watch them move, if you wanted, but it was, in those days, the equivalent of watching paint dry, or grass grow. They were always on the edge of town, because they had, well, a bit of a niff about them. Ilkley had the gasometers on the north side of the town, and when they became redundant the site was an eyesore for years. A few ...