Weymouth shops and pastimes people miss from the 1990s

We asked people what they miss most and among the shops mentioned are: 'Flicking through the posters in Fair Price, getting stationery from Comptons and buying bath bombs from First Stop.'

The memory of the bath beads from First Stop remain particularly strong.

"They were small jewel coloured things full of greasy oils. You’d put them in the bath and they’d sag and expand and then you’d be scraping the outsides off the bath afterwards when they’d dried and stuck on," one reader writes.

Another reader remembers buying their family’s Christmas presents from Annie’s 50p Bazaar - apparently this shop was latterly named Annie's 55p Bazaar.

Weymouth town centre stationer Comptons closed its doors for the last time in 2008. It began in 1908 and was once a printers. 

Comptons after its closure (Image: NQ) Susan Chadwick has memories of working in Comptons back in 1967.

"I was the clerk in the back office," she says.

Other shops from the 1990s remembered are Top Shop for clothes, Our Price for buying music, Bon Bons sweet shop by the station, the deli in Brewers Quay and the Texas furniture store.

Andy Perry tells us: "I remember the Texas furniture store round the corner from the White Hart.

"I used to jump on the beds - but maybe this was the early 80s rather than the 90s!," he says.

Many, many memories of the Haunted Cellar on the Esplanade have been stoked.

This was part of the arcade called JR's Place. As you can see, the Haunted Cellar had a 'resident vampire' whom you can see posing for the Dorset Evening Echo photographer here!

The resident vampire of the Haunted Cellar poses with Roy and Sherry (Image: Newsquest) Alan Ackroyd said he did some of the work on the Haunted Cellar, creating some of the sets and props back in the 1980s.

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Elsewhere, another reader really misses 'ringing the bell at crazy golf to win a free round.'

Nights out well remembered and missed from the 90s are The Steering Wheel, Verdi’s and Malibu.

The Malibu club in Weymouth (Image: Newsquest)

Katie Bagg says: "We had some great nights out drinking Diamond White, 20/20, Thunderbird and smoking 20 B&H that cost £1.96!"

There were too many 90s memories for Terry Simmonds to list. But he's had a good go.

He writes: "There are so many memories! Cycling down the Backwater and round the harbour by the train lines.

"I remember walking round the Nothe and Stone Pier and buying bags of penny stales from the bakers in Abbotsbury Road when at WHS.

The Victoria Hotel (Image: Newsquest) "I remember drinking coffee in the Victoria Hotel and swimming at Greenhill (a friend had a beach hut there.) And getting to the floating raft there.

"I would also go down our garden, over the river and across the fields to Chafey’s lake."

Weymouth's Picturedrome Cinema (Image: Newsquest)

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Another pastime much missed by a reader is Saturday morning movies at the Picturedrome cinema in Weymouth, which closed in 1999. The last film programmed was Disney’s Tarzan and the final film showing saw 66 years of history draw to a close. The cinema opened in 1933, as an Odeon, and had been converted from a bus garage.

Another slightly less innocent childhood memory from some of our readers was pushing 'a random supermarket trolley found in town' up the hill to Chapelhay 'full of stuff to wash'.

South Dorset Technical College students pictured in 1985 (Image: Newsquest) The long gone South Dorset Technical College in Newstead Road is also affectionately remembered - students there would frequent the café above the pier bandstand which they nicknamed 'Willy Wonka’s' as back in the 90s the pillars in it were 'stripy and multicoloured'.