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Another shop closing on Churchfield Road...

We noticed another shop closing on Churchfield Road - the Fishing Tackle shop between Sainsburys and the laundrette.  So that's two near one another - the other being the butcher.Also, someone mentioned Menos lighting on the high street is also closing.  And empty shops in The Oaks.

Helen New ● 2263d8 Comments

Fishing is very popular with Poles (i.e. people from Poland rather than long sticks) so they may have formed an important part of their customer base and now there are fewer of them.

Mark Evans ● 2253d

For me:Almost daily: LondisOften or regularly: Laveli, Churchfield food Store, Nara, Anthony Bell, Clarke's accountant, G & P garage, Sainsburys, PearlsSometimes: Heart & Soul, Otto, Basil & Toms, Vindinista, Trading Company, beer shop. Bike station till it sadly closed. (Paint  & and bathroom shop - not by me but for me)Restaurants: Anokha, station house, Rocket, L'oriental, Hasu, Fed & watered. chip shopNo ocasión to: estate agents; funeral parlour

Sara Nathan ● 2256d

Good point, I wouldn't want my commment to be taken against the particular shop in question, I was alluding of course to the more unusual shops in general which populate Acton.  :-)

Rosco White ● 2259d

There was a fishing tackle shop for many years at the top of Old Oak Road, I bought my first fly rod there 28 years ago. Their customer base were coarse fisherman fishing canals and still waters, so they sold a lot of maggots, boiley's and ground bait...

Iain Muir ● 2259d

I have often wondered this myself, regarding many shops in Acton.They are either a Front, or they do a LOT of Mail Order/Online stuff out the back?I really can't think of anything else as to how some of them survive, and for so long?

Rosco White ● 2260d

It's always been a mystery though how the fishing tackle shop ever maintained itself...I mean, there's no river round the corner or rationale for it being there and I have never seen a customer in it. And really, even those of us keen on promoting local businesses, are scarcely likely to pop into a fishing tackle shop on the off-chance there is something we need there.

Sara Nathan ● 2260d

Also the old Nat West Bank and Santandar currently empty on the High Street.

Tony Crumpton ● 2263d

On top of the empty units already there- a huge one next to Sainsbury’s painted white outside and the others in the middle of the road. Absolute shame- council really f’d up the parking situation and should be doing a hell of a lot more to help small businesses in the area.

Lee Harding ● 2263d