“I was lying in bed, trying to think of it. And I was singing to myself, badly. ‘Shoobie-shoobie-do.’ Then it came to me: Shoe-Be-Do.” Shop Horror is a celebration of the best of the worst in British shop names—from the genuinely inventive to the truly awful. The Prawnbrokers. Sherlock Homes Properties. Pane in the Glass Windows. Sherwood Florist. A hilarious read, packed with color photos and words of wisdom from some the nation’s most imaginative shopkeepers.
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Guy is an expert on all aspects of High Street Britain is funny shop names. From truly awful, cringe-inducing howlers to genuinely inventive and original shop fronts, he has researched, found and photographed them all. He has also interviewed the shopkeepers in a bid to find the reasoning or madness behind these amusing store fronts. This quirky quest has taken him on over 4,000 miles through 340 cities, towns and villages across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He returned with a photo collection of over 600 shop fronts. Only the very best of these were admitted to the hall of name and shame that is Shop Horror. When not wearing his anorak, Guy is a TV and radio producer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A nation of paronomastic shopkeepers,
This review is from: Shop Horror: The Best of the Worst in British Shop Names (Hardcover)
The fun and froth of the British High Street is brilliantly captured in this lovely photobook of quirkily named shops. 'Wooden it be nice' furniture, 'Blazing saddles' cycles, 'Change of a dress' clothes, 'Pane in the glass' windows and 'Lettuce eat', sandwiches will give you an idea of how groaningly wonderful these shops are.
The book is basically one photo to a page, a straight-on shot of the shop centred on the page with a geographic caption. A simple clean layout that lets the photos speak for themselves but unfortunately every few pages there are spreads (twenty-four in all) devoted to a particular shop with a really messy layout of several photos and captions. So it's four stars and no cigar. This is surely a genre that will produce a volume two and to help future retailers get in that book how about: 'Go away' travel, 'Happy to meat you' butchers, 'Give them a brake' cycles, 'We knead your body' sauna and a sort of predictable 'The end of window pains' glaziers. Another book I've enjoyed along the same lines as 'Shop Horror' is 'Welcome to Britain' (ISBN 0755314476) a photo celebration of the worst in British lifestyles and the landscape. A tongue-in-cheek treasure. ***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great British Book,
This review is from: Shop Horror: The Best of the Worst in British Shop Names (Hardcover)
"Shop Horror". It's a British book full of photos of badly named shops, with discussions with businessfolk who named them. Britain is beautiful, I think, even the shops.
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