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People on the street: Which of Manchester’s shops should be on EVERY HIGH STREET?
National World - LocalTV
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07/07/2025
We went out into Manchester to ask people on the street about the state of British high streets, and which three Manchester businesses should be on every high street in the country.
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Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name's Theo Hewson-Bertz and today I'm out
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on the streets of Manchester asking people about high streets. Now this time last week
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I came out into Manchester and asked people about the declining state of our high streets
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and what they wanted to see replace some of the bigger stores that are closing down across
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England. The answer was basically a lot of small independent places so today we're pursuing
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that. We're asking people to name three businesses here in Manchester that they think should be
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on every high street in England and we're going to find out a little bit about why as well.
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So let's go see what people have to say. Okay well obviously Fanboy 3. Yeah yeah yeah. Okay
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so we would like a Fanboy 3. Everywhere. Everywhere. Yes please. Oh because okay firstly obviously
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we're very interested in the hobby of tabletop gaming so having a tabletop gaming store of
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that quality everywhere would be incredible but also shops like that operate as like the
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heart of a community. Yeah. That's awesome you know. They're places you can hang out and meet
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people and socialise. They they replace the ancient need for like a church where as a community
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hub. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. So like like a shop that like a grain of sand in an oyster creates
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a pearl around it. Those kind of shops on high streets would be awesome everywhere I think.
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We'll actually say Affleck's Palace 100%. Really? Absolutely love Affleck's Palace. Other than that
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there's a place called Gone Fishing Vintage. It's just on Oldham Street there. It's my
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friend's shop. Amazing vintage clothing. And that's all I've got really. We like Fred Older
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so we're just nipping into there. It's like an arts and craft shop which is cool. But yeah
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I'd say those three. It's impossible but if more places in the world could have an Affleck's
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place that would be incredible. You know somewhere where smaller retailers or craft people or
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designers could get a place to showcase their work in a place where you knew you could always
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go and find things that are fresh and original and interesting. And yeah you know that would
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be amazing. As someone who is young but absolutely hates online shopping. The disconnect I feel from
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my peers and my ability to get stuff of that quality. As someone who doesn't live in Manchester
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would be completely resolved if there was one of those where I live.
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I just think that's just cooler stuff really. And I think people like those kind of shops
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you know like grassroots as well. You get better quality stuff really.
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Oh right eighth day. Yeah yeah somewhere that's like it's got different dietary needs but it's
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also like ethically really interesting. And yeah yeah somewhere that's got like a chill. I'm
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gonna I'm very old to use the word vibe but a chill vibe but also like yeah really really
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delicious interesting things to eat. And that's been here for like 50 years. Yeah like like so
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companies with that kind of like investment in the community and then staying power. That'd be awesome.
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