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Simon Robinson wrote:
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> Well having been intrigued by all the talk of Busy Bee
> I decided I was curious enough to see what the shop was
> really like.
>
> So on the way back from shopping in Manchester on
> Saturday I and a couple of friends took a detour and called in.
>
> You'd never believe it's the shop where people from across
> the world place orders for old sets they've heard about
> on the Internet. It's tiny! It's situated in a small row of shops
> in the suburbs of Manchester. It's got a rather old, worn-looking
> yellow wooden 'Busy Bee' sign above the window, and I'd guess the total
> floor area at no more than 2 or 3 times the size of my living
> room. To look at it you really wouldn't be able to tell the place
> apart from any other independent small town toyshop.
Now we all know why it sounds so chaotic when we call...
Actually I had a hint of its size from a picture I found on the web:
http://www.mmu.ac.uk/h-ss/sis/chorlton/chorlpic.htm
Scroll down to "page 9" and click on Busy Bee Toy Shop.
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