A look at the former Little Chef restaurant at Haughley Park Services in Stowmarket, Suffolk.
We drove past the old Little Chef on what was once the A14 while on a trip to Suffolk last week.
We used to pass by the roadside restaurant a fair bit on our visits to Ipswich back in the noughties, that was until the A14 at Haughley Park Services was bypassed in 2008.
This Little Chef restaurant soldiered on until it was closed in September 2012.
It's an interesting piece of roadside history.
We felt very nostalgic during the pandemic and spent time seeing what old brands from our childhood we could still find while out and about on our rather limited travels. We've been to quite a lot of Blockbuster Video stores, Happy Shopper shops, Toys R Us locations, Grainger Games shops, and Woolworths locations over the last couple of years!
Interestingly some of them still had a few bits of stock inside!
The shop unit in Warrington will soon be home to Funky Figures. It's nice to see they've kept all of the former Grainger Games shelving inside to give it a nostalgic hit.
The company was founded in 1996 and ceased operations on the 28th March 2018.
As a brand with shops in the North of England and Scotland I only became a regular shopper at Grainger Games when I moved to Stockport in 2016. I picked up some nice old games for my SEGA Master System there.
There's a new Blockbuster Video comedy out on Netflix! Will you be watching it?
The new show is about the last (operating) Blockbuster Video store in the world. This is a sign we snapped at our old local (abandoned) Blockbuster Video store in Manchester
The new Par 59 minigolf bar venue is opening in Bristol in December.
The second of Gareth Bale's Par 59 venues is scheduled to open in Bristol on Friday 9th December. The indoor minigolf course in the city follows the first Par 59 location in Cardiff.