Showing posts with label Enfield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Enfield. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Toys R Us store in Enfield, London

A look at the old Toys R Us store in Enfield, London.


A big thank you to my cousin Elaine for sending me some photos of the former Toys R Us store in Enfield.

Toys R Us in Enfield. Photo by Elaine Jones, May 2021

Toys R Us in Enfield. Photo by Elaine Jones, May 2021

Toys R Us closed in the UK in April 2018. Luckily you can still find signs of the brand on some retail parks in the UK. I worked in the Gipsy Lane store in Luton, Bedfordshire back in the year 2000.

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

50 years ago today Reg Varney used the world's first ATM

It was in Enfield.

Enfield’s branch of Barclay’s bank was the location of the world’s very first cash machine – opened and used by Reg Varney on this day in 1967!

There's a blue plaque at the site of the world's first ATM

As a big fan of On the Buses I had a chance to see the Reg Varney Star Plaque on the Elstree & Borehamwood Walk of Fame by the train station during the On The Buses Fan Club 40th Anniversary event in 2011 and it was great to follow this up with the chance to have a photo at ‘Stan Butler’s’ cashpoint!