I miss them as I spent all my childhood in there when my parents were shopping. I used to buy their books which were all hand written.
I did dislike their 99p per LED packs though! Maplin was quite a bit cheaper at the time and was a real electronics shop. Maplin is now just what Tandy was.
There still is a Tandy (or rather Radioshack) in St Annes. Tandy was just their main UK franchise and it went bust but anybody can still setup and operate a Radioshack in the UK under licence.
I would love to run a little electronics shop like that.
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