Hi, The Maplin store on Teesside Park, Stockton - on - Tees has recently closed leaving only the Middlesbrough branch in our area. I tended only to use them for the odd "emergency component" though mainly due to their prices.
As a slight aside I was in the Teesside park branch some months ago and overheard a young lady say to her boyfriend "I haven't a clue what anything in here does" and I didn't have the heart (or b**ls) to respond with "Neither do most of the staff"
Andrew