The proper Codfather is in Deptford!
Posted by Chris G on 5 October 2008 - 7:52am.
Inspired by item in the new edition on shops with pop culture pun based names, here's my contribution to the on going list of groantastic shops and business.
I must admit to preferring shops names that don't quite truly mean what the owners would perhaps hope. For instance the bakers in Camberwell that's called "Mixed blessings", or the kebab shop in north London that I swear was called "Hygienic Kebabs" cleanliness being the base line you'd demand from any grilled meat.
Anymore notable shop names that raise a smile?
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Well-known, but worth a mention
is the camping shop in Stratford-Upon-Avon that put up the sign "Now is the discount of our winter tents". I've always thought that the humble shop assistant who came up with that deserved honouring.
The Great North Bun
...is a bakery in Newcastle.
very apt
today, isn't it owned by Steve Crumb? (sorry)
Plumbers!
Not a shop name, but a slogan painted on the back of a plumber's van along the road: 'Your shit is my bread and butter'.
Some Like It Hot
Used to be an Indian take away in Sandhurst with a big montage of Marilyn Monroe on the window.
And their used to be a hairdressers called Belle Hair in Reading years ago.
Bakers in Manchester owned by a "Mr. Daley"
The sign reads:
R. Daley
Bread
Near me..
....there's a shop called SellFridges. Which does just that.
Abrakebabra
The finest chain of doner houses in Dublin!
Hairdressers
A hairdressers near the British Museum called The Bloomsbury Set.
Honest
I get my hair cut there.
Er, that's it...
Florist
There a florist in Lanark (my local burgh town) named "Floral & Hardy."
They should give me a discount
My brother took this photo of a hairdresser's in West London:
Restaurant
There's a "contemporary fish and steak resterant" (sic.) on Allerton Road, Liverpool called Plaice to Meat. I've never been tempted to sample its delights.
The Merchant of Tennis
A tennis outfitters in LA
Humphrey Yogart
A yoghurt shop near Toronto, Canada. Works better with a North Amercian accent.
Can't let the moment pass..
..without mentioning the linoleum shop in Dublin called 'Lino Ritchie'.
Don't think it's still around any more (does anybody buy linoleum in the 21st century?) but it'll never be forgotten..
Here's a few with photographic evidence
http://www.shophorror.co.uk/pages/gallery.html
Danny Baker
Danny did a great piece on BBC London a few months back where listeners populated a high street with shops inspired by bands and singers.
So.....
Grateful Bread - the bakers
Carpetry by
Inspiral Carpets - or is that too obvious?
Herman's permits
We should point out that the Danny Baker ones were made up!
Cut The Crap...
A hairdressers in Stockholm, I never asked if they were Clash fans.
"cut the crap"
not "Cut the Crop" ?
Would've been better you'd have thought...
but no, crap it is, got the photos to prove it too!
In Hebden Bridge...
There is apparently an all-female plumbing collective called Stopcocks.
And surely everyone has seen
..a hair salon named "Curl Up and Dye." There do seem to be quite a few of those.
Saw a chipshop last week
called "Cod's Kitchen"........
there's a wooly liberal
veggy cafe in stoke newington called "Blue legume".
Stoke
There is a hairdresser called Alias Quiff and Combs in Stoke On Trent...
Hope I'm not echoing others here
A few from the Dublin area here:
A flooring store owned by a chap called Richie and a fast food outlet specialising in post-pub snacks of the Levantine persuasion occupied adjoining sites in Clondalkin village...the former 'Lino Richie', the latter 'Kebabylon'. Then there's the now defunct Balbriggan video rental outlet called 'Planet of the Tapes'.
Oops, apologies to John
Oops, apologies to John Connolly as he cited 'Lino Richie' earlier...keep writing those Charlie Parker occult noirs, good man yourself.
Probably a bit late now...
...but last night on a chip shop wall in deepest, darkest Renfrewshire I saw an advert for a small loads van hire entitled: 'A Van For All Reasons'.
That reminds me
of a delivery van I used to see on the A4 at Heathrow with 'John Ryans Express' on the side.