"FOUNDRY shop" Topic

Last week was camping in Newark (NEW WINE NORTH, you see) so on day off enticed family to go shopping in Nottingham while my mate Wayne & I popped to the FOUNDRY shop to avoid paying their punitive mail order charges. All Old West stuff on shopping list

For the benefit of others if you take the family get out of the car at the entrance of the Victoria Centre car park (possibly one of the dingiest car parks in the world) let your spouse park the car while you go through the alley behind you, with St Marks Rd virtually opposite across the main road the other end. We made our way from the entrance of the Centre (saw Bill Bailey on the way!) & it was a bit more of a trial'n'error route finding (wife wouldn't let me take road atlas with city map on…)This takes you through some of the scrotiest urban landscape you will ever see in the UK & indeed some drunken chaotic was effing loudly at the corner of St Marks… but once you get in the stock room is light, spacious, airy & the staff bloke is on hand to help if you need him without any pushiness in the GW mould… Ironically we spent enough to have avoided the P&P charges mentioned above! There is a grovel box at £5.00 GBP a blister, I scored 6 horses (2 sets of 3 poses) & 3 bugler riders which will be very useful. Lots of 'War Orcs' in this box, might be worth buying for the metal alone as they are clodding great lumps of white metal…

Of course, I assume FOUNDRY's uncompetitive prices are funding the overheads on this lavish factory/shop. Hopefully I now have all the figures I'll ever need from FOUNDRY, that no-one else does!

Don't show up at the normal opening time. You may be waiting a bit for the lads to decide to come to work.

"…possibly one of the dingiest car parks in the world… some of the scrotiest urban landscape you will ever see in the UK…"

Truth.

"…possibly one of the dingiest car parks in the world… some of the scrotiest urban landscape you will ever see in the UK…"

Never visited the Black Country then?

…and why does FOUNDRY deserve capitals?

Connard,
I've been to both. That bit of Nottingham outdoes the worst I've seen in the Black Country!
Don't go on a Friday afternoon – it took forever to get into Nottingham and crawl along to where the shop is so I arrived after it had closed :(
The second time I went midweek lunchtime (after visiting Caliver) and it was much easier. Satnav helped too.

Interesting story. Thanks for posting. They're a bit far for me to drive to, of course, but who knows? My wife and I do plan to visit England at some point in the future.

I agree I was also there a few years ago and everything that people have said is true but forgot to tell about the ladies of the evening! I wanted to stop but my wife and our friends did not! Mike Adams

Nottingham is the only place I've seen people performing sex acts in public! & I've observed the ladies of ill repute but they're out & about in Leicester & Birmingham too if you go to the 'right' areas…

The Victoria Centre is a weird mix of state of the art shopping & dinginess. The public tioilets are in the basement & you have to take a lift, which is downright weird…

I agree its in the middle of a dosshole and hard to find.Plus when I asked about their "bargain" blister packs they claim to have they said there wouldnt be any until their open day which was over 2 months away!

They had one of the prettiest Old West buildings I've ever seen lying about, an exquisitely detailed adobe with several wooden structures built onto it…

I grew up in Birmigham (at least, as far as I grew up at all) & so am no stranger to the Black Country & have never found it particularly grim?

I like the area but , like some places in Chicago it is pretty grim! Cheers Mike Adams

A friend of mine from West Virginia told me Birmingham was the Chicago of the UK! He meant that it was full of interesting stuff but not on the obvious tourist itinerary. Mind you the same guy had the notion that since Brum was 'an industrial city' it was unsafe to leave a college campus in Selly Oak after nightfall & had kittens when I suggested parking the hire care on a leafy suburban road in Hall Green. & he was comparatively laid back compared to his sister who could be described as an example of meticulously groomed American womanhood, who never lost an expression of appalled fright, as if every avenue of Birmingham was a singularly bullet-pocked corner of Chechnya!

Ah! Now you are getting me all nostalgic for Nottingham! It has a quality all of its own. :o)

Actually though, if you are coming to UK from overseas, and want to visit some good wargames outlets, you might be amazed at how many major wargames suppliers are in a 30 minute radius of the foundry (or FOUNDRY) location.

And central Nottingham on a Saturday night is verily something to behold.

And central Nottingham on a Saturday night is verily something to behold.

Preferably from a safe distance…

They are not just Ladies of the Night! they were there around lunch time as well!!

"you might be amazed at how many major wargames suppliers are in a 30 minute radius of the foundry (or FOUNDRY) location."

warhammer world & now Warlord Games on the same 'dust estate. Right next to Trent Vineyard Church, should you go on a sunday looking for a kewl church.

My cousin went to uni in Nottingham & got mugged twice in one night. Kinda sums the place up for me…

Northstar too of course

Oh & forgot to mention… we'd come in several cars for the shopping experience & every car load trying to get out of the city & back to Newark ended up going a most indirect route, even those with Satnav! Very weird…