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- Beatties was founded by Colonel S N Beattie and Charles Whale as the Southgate Model Shop. In the early 1960s they had two small shops on Winchmore Hill Road in London. Looking away from the tube station the one on the right sold new model railway equipment and the one on the left was full of used stuff.
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Beatties of London (commonly known as Beatties) was a model retail company of the United Kingdom, not to be confused with the Beatties department store group. History. Beatties was founded by Colonel S N Beattie and Charles Whale as the Southgate Model Shop. In the early 1960s they had two small shops on Winchmore Hill Road in London.
Beatties were one of the UK's best-known model shop retailer chains. After their collapse in 2001, some of their shops were acquired by ModelZone. Beatties' branch at 112 High Holborn, London had previously been the iconic Bassett Lowke London premises Branches. Listing from the side of a "Beatties" Corgi double-decker bus:
Parent. House of Fraser. Website. Beatties (archived version) House of Fraser. Beatties was a small British department store group located primarily in the Midlands of England. In 2005, when it had 12 stores, the group was acquired by House of Fraser.
Bill Foote. Apr 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM. to Richard Myers. Many years ago, Beatties belonged to "Colonel S.N. Beattie". (long since departed this earth), and started in a shop in. Southgate, North London, selling second hand Meccano and. Trains - I remember him well for his vitriolic hatred of. Meccano Ltd ("get rid of that Hornby Dublo rubbish ...
BEATTIES OF LONDON LTD. Welcome to my website dedicated to the memory of the late great Beatties of London Ltd. Thank you to those who have been sending me pictures, please keep them coming. I wanted to bring together all the great memories and pictures in one place for all to see, please feel free to send me pictures and content on the links ...
Celebrating the UK based Hobby and Model stores ‘ BEATTIES OF LONDON’ . The first shop opened in the 1960s in Southgate, and this was my local ‘hobby shop’. Growing up in the 1970s there were frequent visits to the shop and it seemed like it sold model kits from every manufacturer.
History. The retail company Era Group plc owned Beatties by the end of its days as a retailer. By the late 1990s Beatties had 60 stores, in locations including the MetroCentre, Gateshead, and the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in the West Midlands. The company had an e-commerce website.
