Re: Maplin stores
Many years back Maplin only had a few shops, but they were well stocked. I used to regularly visit the Hammersmith store in King Street and normally got all I needed. (There was a Tandy a few shops away too).
Then they started opening shops all over London. So I tried Hounslow, Kingston, Edgeware Road and others, but could not get all I needed to complete my order at one store. It seemed that as they got more stores the amount of components was spread out so instead of one store with 50 10K resistors the same 50 resistors was 10 of each in 5 stores, having to make visits to several branches for one order soon put me off.
I still occasionally purchase an urgent plug or cable from their shops.
It seem that there are no more electronic hobby shops now, and the computer fairs seem to have ended too.
Fortunately I still have a good ham radio store not too far from me.
John
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