Croydon Model Shop

[Neil McGrath]

Can anyone assist with providing directions to the model shop that was set up as one of the retail concessions on what was the old Allders store? I have been there once but spent a long time wandering around before I found the place and do not know it well enough to provide anyone else with directions.

 

Can anyone confirm if they are still trading and provide directions from the high street? Do you know of a web site for the store or can provide contact details?

 

Thanks

 

Neil

[metropolitan cammell]

What is left is by the entrance in the whitgift centre. I very much doubt the worth of a special trip unless a Model Zone exclusive Kent Coast Signal box or five year old Bachmann catalogs are wanted as that is just about all they have left.

[Neil McGrath]

Thanks for the info.

[unravelled]

It was originally by the entrance from the Whitgift cantre, but moved a few months ago. It is now a bit deeper inside the store, under the stairs/gallery. If you walk about 5 counters in from the Whitgift entrance and look to your left. you should see it against the back wall.

 

Hth

 

Dave

[Pebbles]

What's Croydon lost? - The Shop in Station Road just around the corner from West Croydon Station that must have closed at the end of the eighties. Slightly further out Ray Rogers shop, or workshop, in Godstone Road Purley. Rays shop was a treasure house of old bits, and Ray himself so very talented and such a nice guy. You would find him seated behind the counter usually a can of something and a fag. I digress, and it's really a story for Dave Ellis to tell, but apparently one day Ray just turned up with the additional masters for the original W1 - at the time Dave already produced the re-built version that I believe Ron Goult had a hand in.     

[Cornholio]

Just a heads-up, as of the end of September these guys are no longer trading.

 

Other than some old woodland scenics bits, the model railway stock was pretty much all gone anyways.

 

With the closure of the Modelzone concession within WHSmith, Croydon is again without a model shop.

[Pteremy]

It isn't a 'model shop' but I think there are some relevant items in the Hobbycraft on the Purley Way? Certainly there were still some Airfix/Military kits last time I was there. Similarly, have not been in Toys R Us for a long time but it seem to recall 'train set' type stock?

 

Frankly I am not sure how any 'specialist' high street shop survives anymore. The internet has it's faults but it provides access to virtually anything, anywhere, at a range of prices (or free in the case of information).