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Title: Gamers In Exile
Post by: urbancohort on 09 April 2017, 05:20:13 PM
Does anyone remember this top shop in Pentonville near Kings Cross? A Saturday mecca for me when I moved to London! In the days before the Internet I got so much from here. It must have closed around 1992.

I used to buy rules, figures and Skytrex 1/1200th ships there. Happy days!

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Title: Re: Gamers In Exile
Post by: Leman on 09 April 2017, 05:39:55 PM
IIRC they sold Pendraken army packs. If it's the place I'm thinking of I visited once many moons ago.
Title: Re: Gamers In Exile
Post by: sunjester on 09 April 2017, 05:46:32 PM
I remember calling in there when I was in London during the early 90s.
Title: Re: Gamers In Exile
Post by: mollinary on 09 April 2017, 05:54:04 PM
Yes, I remember calling in there on my commute back to Huntingdon, at the end of the eighties/early nineties. I still have a painted 15mm unit of SYW Bayreuth Dragoons I bought back then.

Mollinary
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Post by: urbancohort on 09 April 2017, 05:57:56 PM
Remember the young chap who ran it. Got on so well with him; think his name was something like Peter (O'Toole?). Anyone know what happened to him?

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Title: Re: Gamers In Exile
Post by: Shedman on 09 April 2017, 06:05:27 PM
Yes I remember it well and there was an excellent record shop next door - Mole Jazz - mmmm nice
Title: Re: Gamers In Exile
Post by: kustenjaeger on 09 April 2017, 06:43:00 PM
Greetings

Think I bought some 20mm WW2 figure packs there once upon a time.

Edward
Title: Re: Gamers In Exile
Post by: jimduncanuk on 09 April 2017, 06:47:23 PM
Does anyone remember a toy shop down the back of Battersea Power Station in the 70's.

I used to shop there when training in London for Roco minitanks which were unavailable in Edinburgh and the internet hadn't been invented then.

Title: Re: Gamers In Exile
Post by: philv on 09 April 2017, 06:47:35 PM
The Exiles club meets on a Thursday night. They took their name from the shop as the club was started by the owners of the shop. Now based in a pub near Waterloo station.
Title: Re: Gamers In Exile
Post by: NTM on 09 April 2017, 07:23:19 PM
Quote from: kustenjaeger on 09 April 2017, 06:43:00 PM
Greetings

Think I bought some 20mm WW2 figure packs there once upon a time.

Edward

Quite possibly. I remember buying Platoon 20 stuff from there.
Title: Re: Gamers In Exile
Post by: Bernie on 09 April 2017, 08:35:01 PM
Yes - nice shop - always understocked however - very friendly people

Title: Re: Re: Gamers In Exile
Post by: urbancohort on 09 April 2017, 08:47:48 PM
Quote from: Shedman on 09 April 2017, 06:05:27 PM
Yes I remember it well and there was an excellent record shop next door - Mole Jazz - mmmm nice
That's correct! Forgot that.

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