Brian Sherriff's shop at 93 Victoria Road was THE place to go to get Airfix models and radio control cars. Just looking in the shop window was fun, seeing all the ships, planes and vehicles. It had everything you needed for model making, the kits, spare parts, wee pots of paint and transfers. It's heyday was the 60's when it was as popular with dads as it was with kids.The above picture was taken in the mid 70's when it closed down to make way for new development on the site. The wee side street with the big incline is Idvies Street.
I can only remember Brian Sherriff's in the Cowgate. A place of wonderment there too.
ReplyDeleteI used to go into Sherriff's in the Cowgate when I was a kid in the 70s. I got all my Airfix and Hornby stuff there. Imagine my surprise that the company I worked for 20 odd years later moved their head office and main branch there. It was spooky going in for the first time in years!
ReplyDeleteSherriff's in the Cowgate had a large train layout behind glass. I fondly remember pressing the green buttons to make each train go round.
ReplyDeleteAhhh! You can almost smell the UHU glue!
ReplyDeleteI only remember Sherriff's from the Cowgate, too. Crammed from floor to ceiling with amazing Airfix kits, balsa wood, Humbrol enamels and tubes of glue, bags of flock or miniature trees for 'N' guage or smaller; the bigger, expensive model kits were laid out along the top shelves, while the wee affordable spitfires and the like were at child-height...
ReplyDeleteI remeber this I remeber going in the shop after it had closed with my brother. there were still models there. I must have been 5/6 yreas old. Thanks for the memory of this I had almost fogotten this place, I use to go down Idives street Im shur I remeber a wooden staicase there.
ReplyDeleteI am 67, so remember Sherriffs before I left Dundee in 1964.
ReplyDeleteAwesome place fro a boy interested in aircraft models.
I used to get on order a great magazine called "RAF Flying Review". Sounds real nerdy but was a great favourite. OK - I was geek!
Wow, I remember this shop vividly - mainly because I couldn't afford but desired everything in it! I remember staring in the window when I was wee looking at all the Dinky and Corgi stuff...I remember the shop - and could afford to buy stuff - later when I was a teenager when it moved to Cowgate. I'd go in for my Airfix kits and my Dad bought his N guage railway stuff there (including sets of their own card railway building sheets). Every time I visit Dundee I wander past Cowgate and cast an eye to where this shop was.
ReplyDeleteI remember Sherriff's shop in Cowgate in the '80s. It was the only shop in town after the demise of Scoonie Hobbies on Perth Road.
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