Film Noir Buff Style Forum / Cordings recovering from fire which destroyed most of the stock

Bishop of Briggs · 2010-01-01 08:31:46

I was in Piccadilly just before Christmas and found that Cordings was closed due to a problem caused by roadworks. Over the last few weeks, I had noticed that the Cordings website had very little stock for sale.

I popped in on Wednesday afternoon to buy some cords but the choice was very limited. The reason was that the shop, having been closed for three weeks, is only now re-stocking after a electrical fire in the basement that was caused by flooding.

Nearly all the pre-Christmas stock suffered smoke damage and was withdrawn from sale. More stock should arrive within the next week or so but it will take a few more weeks before normal service is resumed. There will, naturally, not be a January sale because they are stocking for the new season.

The basement (which can only stock a few trousers and jumpers) will need to be redecorated and the shopfittings will need to be replaced. The tweed jackets and covert coats have been upstairs to where the ladies department was.

Buildings, fittings, stock and business interruption insurance policies should cover the cost of the damage and the loss of business.

Bishop of Briggs · 2010-02-09 11:35:00

Cordings is now back to normal, almost fully re-stocked with new tweed suits just in.

meister · 2010-02-11 04:16:14

Bishop of Briggs · 2010-02-11 07:11:22

4F Hepcat · 2010-02-11 10:46:39

Oh dear, they have that bankrupt estate agent modelling for them.

Bishop of Briggs · 2010-02-11 12:25:02

4F Hepcat · 2010-02-11 12:34:21

I see Blur have at last come out and admitted that they were doing H from the 1997 Blur album onwards, which explains why they were totally fucking shit.

Phil Spencer is part of the rot, a pawn admittingly, in the ponzi scheme of the English housing market. That awful show he's in with that Lord's daughter, both never worked a day in their lives. Selling the housing ponzi to the uneducated middle classes. Disgusting really.

Shows were Eric Clapton's head is.

No disrespect Cordings by the way, but using that Phil Spencer, not a good move for those who are sussed.

Taylor McIntyre · 2010-02-11 12:52:00

Mr. Clapton (who shopped at the Ivy Shop & Austins) might have helped JS...

http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/adams/arch350/fall1999/students/pgorrie/clapton.gif

And he still could.

Remember the old days, Eric?

formby · 2010-02-11 13:14:20

Just Jim · 2010-02-11 13:15:34

Ouch!

Kingstonian · 2010-02-11 13:29:49

Just Jim · 2010-02-11 13:34:36

meister · 2010-02-12 23:21:45

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Bishop of Briggs · 2010-02-13 02:52:12

Interview with Graham Coxon of Blur, photographed in his own clothes I believe - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1175010/Every-time-I-came-tour-Id-kill-girlfriends-suitors-says-Blurs-Graham-Coxon.html.

"The English are a bloody disgrace when it comes to clothes.

They should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Most foreigners dress appallingly but, unlike the English, most of them don't wear tracksuits when they're not jogging. We make the best clothes and shoes in the world and people walk around like they can't be bothered. Everything is c**p in this country. No one gives a damn about anything."

4F Hepcat · 2010-02-14 02:30:19

I touched down into the glamour of East Midland airport a week and a half ago and my eyes were immediately accosted by shell suits - his and hers with matching trainers. Shame to think Northampton's only down the road.

Graham Coxon writes some okay journalistic copy, and Blur were a good pop band, until as we now know H came into the game. You wouldn't catch Flavor Flav doing that shit, unless it was lightly seared with coke in a speedball.

Eric Clapton? Wasn't he the guy in a concert at the Albert Hall stood up asked how many non-English were in the audience and then said that all dirty, filthy foreignors should go home and be repatriated and then started played the blues? His roots are Trad dad, not Ivy. He won't be stepping in any time soon to fill the void.

Bishop of Briggs · 2010-02-14 04:17:15

Taylor McIntyre · 2010-02-14 04:21:05

Oh dear. I shall cross him off my list. No Christmas card for him.

formby · 2010-02-14 04:41:02

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Bishop of Briggs · 2010-02-14 05:51:55

I am not a Clapton fan as I don't like rock or pop music.

Kingstonian · 2010-02-14 07:48:13

Many British rock stars like to see themselves as country squires once they have made their money. Roger Daltrey and his waxed jackets. Jethro Tull flute player owns half of Scotland. Clapton is no different.

Rock stars are often no different to other Brits.

4F Hepcat · 2010-02-14 09:01:23

Voltaire's Bastard · 2010-02-14 09:27:26

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Kingstonian · 2010-02-14 10:15:30

4F Hepcat · 2010-02-14 10:30:34

Townsend is better as a solo performer, has been for years.

Few rock stars are capable of ageing well, my wife tells me that Springsteen has had some cosmetic surgery. That's betrayal, betrayal of his every working man image. Its just a job five days a week....

Peter Gabriel still has it, in my opinion. Caetano Veloso also.

Clapton has been a boring old fart for over thirty years now.

Still, one good thing, the age of the rock star is over. Bono is its last over indulgent and ego filled dreg. And what was it, around '82/83 when he use to take his t-shirt off on stage, and expose his flabby torso to the world, why didn't we realise he was a fucking tosser?

Voltaire's Bastard · 2010-02-14 11:01:47

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