Opening Titles Only Fools And Horses...

[daz1969]

On the opening titles of Only Fools and Horses there is a red shop logo, like a W, to the left of the screen - does anyone know what shop it is?
Was it anything to do with Woolworths? Many thanks.

[webbo3]

It doesn't look like a W, not sure what it is tho.
top right of the screen.

[daz1969]

My mistake, sorry I should have put left hand side

[bhg481]

If you look at this link:

https://britmovietours.com/bookings/only-fools-and-horses-tour-of-locations/

On one of the pictures (they change) there is a street view with a London Camera Exchange next door to a Santander Bank. The red logo you are asking about looks very like the Santander logo in that picture.

[hc4361]

Santander UK wasn't founded until 2010

[bhg481]

The logo I referred to is like a W but is on the top-right of the screen.

[hc4361]

The onlr red logo I can see is the underground sign

[daz1969]

Found it, it's a logo for Woolworths
http://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/1970-galleryhome.htm

[bhg481]

Can't be Santander then - thanks hc.

I thinks the one daz is referring to appears in the very first second of webbo's clip.

[jackthehat]

It's Woolworths/Winfields......and it's on the *right* of the screen.

[webbo3]

winfields
https://goo.gl/images/aFLKps


woolworths.
https://goo.gl/images/VuUq8R

[ToraToraTora]

yep it's woolies, my mum used to leave me outside the Saafend branch in a fireman Sam when I was a saucepan... Can you imagine this now..?
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45330000/jpg/_45330282_kirkby_1967_466_get.jpg

[lankeela]

The tube station is Holborn, and the shop to the right is the sandwich bar I used to get my lunch in called The Eden.

[emmie]

i thought i recognised it, i knew it was Holborn, as i have often worked around there.

[New Judge]

"The tube station is Holborn, and the shop to the right is the sandwich bar I used to get my lunch in called The Eden."

And in the alleyway that runs behind the tube station is "The Ship" pub. Very cosy as I recall and one of many I used to frequent along with the Princess Louise, the Three Cups, the Bull and Mouth (renamed, for a few years after 1982, the Falkland Arms), The Crown (two of them) plus a few others.

"yep it's woolies, my mum used to leave me outside the Saafend branch in a fireman Sam when I was a saucepan... Can you imagine this now..?"

Indeed. When I was about two my gran was looking after me for the day. She took me to Woolies and left me outside in my pram as in your photo, 3Ts. She came out (having met a neighbour inside and bunnied to her for about ten minutes) and returned straight home - without me! As she neared home she met another neighbour and started bunnying to her (she was famous for it). The neighbour asked how I was. Only then did it dawn on her that she had left me in the High Street. She scuttled straight back down there and found me fast asleep, none the worse for wear. I would probably been taken into care had that happened today!

[emmie]

NJ not sure how old you are, and i am not asking but several of the pubs you mention were our old watering holes. Notably the Three Cups, and The Princess Louise.

[Prudie]

That's brought back memories, I'd completely forgotten that some Woolworth's items like clothes used to have Winfield on the label (like M&S used to have St Michael). I'm sure as a child I used to have Winfield nighties :-)

[New Judge]

My time as a "regular" in that area goes back to the 80s and early 90s, emmie.

The Princess Louise is still there though it's a shadow of its former self. In 1998 it was taken over by brewers Sam Smith. Their "old Brewery Bitter" is is the only "proper" beer they sell in there now. When it was run by Regent Inns it always had five or six real ales on offer. The inside has also been altered considerably. The Three Cups (in Sandland Street on the other side of High Holborn) is now called the Old Nick. It is run by brewers Hall and Woodhouse who sell their regular beers (Badger, Tanglefoot). As the Three Cups it was a Youngs' house.

Happy Days!

[emmie]

NJ as did mine, i worked in a pub The Duke of York, off Grays Inn Road back in the day, happy times.