Jim Oliver certainly ran a sports shop in St Augustines

but I cant recall him having an involvement with this one. His partner was a bloke called Geoff Fiddler, who was a good local cricketer. In that rather smutty way of schoolboys, we wondered whether Geoff was a fiddler. Absolutely no evidence of that whatsoever, but we thought it was vaguely amusing. We were very young.

Posted By: Fozzybear on September 8th 2015 at 23:14:33

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PM Old Norwich people (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Sep 8, 22:29:24
- Think that was a sports shop opposite The Trafford in the 80s (n/m) (NCFC) - Adster, Sep 8, 22:30:48
  - I shopped there as a kid.... (NCFC) - Cheltenham_Canary, Sep 8, 23:39:59
  - From what I remember it was quite small and a rather bizarre shop (n/m) (NCFC) - Huge Small, Sep 8, 22:39:39
    - Sounds great - I love quirky shops like that - especially if they're sports shops (n/m) (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Sep 8, 22:47:00
      - the owner was a bit of a....erm... character (NCFC) - Huge Small, Sep 8, 23:06:05
        
        Scott? Wasn't the Owner Jim Oliver? (n/m) (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Sep 8, 23:07:15
        
        Don't think so (NCFC) - Huge Small, Sep 8, 23:12:20
        
        Aye. (n/m) (NCFC) - Garry Brooke, Sep 9, 00:00:52
        
        This Anthony Wickham? (NCFC) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 8, 23:15:19
        
        Yes (n/m) (NCFC) - Huge Small, Sep 8, 23:22:38
        
        Wow! I would never have known.... (NCFC) - Cheltenham_Canary, Sep 8, 23:39:02
        
        Yeah, that rings a bell (NCFC) - Huge Small, Sep 8, 23:48:44
        
        It's still on the Evening news site by the looks of it (NCFC) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 8, 23:54:02
        
        I used to go to school with Scott, his Dad certainly worked in that sports shop (n/m) (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Sep 8, 23:15:09
  - I bought a Pierre Cardin ski jacket there. And a Fila tracksuit. (NCFC) - Adster, Sep 8, 22:32:30
    - Jim Oliver certainly ran a sports shop in St Augustines (NCFC) - Fozzybear, Sep 8, 23:14:33
      - Norwich Sports? (NCFC) - Huge Small, Sep 8, 23:19:27
        
        Yes, that's the one (n/m) (NCFC) - Fozzybear, Sep 8, 23:30:06
    - Thems were the days....Fila, Ellese, Tacchini (n/m) (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Sep 8, 22:33:19
  - Oh, so they were a shop, rather than a manufacturer? (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Sep 8, 22:32:14
    - If my memory is correct then yes (n/m) (NCFC) - Adster, Sep 8, 22:33:28
      - my mate used to live in a flat above it (n/m) (NCFC) - dr fanta, Sep 8, 22:46:47
- I think it was opposite The Trafford Arms from memory. (n/m) (NCFC) - lovely old job, Sep 8, 22:30:37
  - If I remember correctly that Sports shop was owned by Ex Norwich (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Sep 8, 23:04:27
    - Talking of ex City players - anyone older than me remember this guy play for us? (NCFC) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 8, 23:06:51
      - Not me, my first game was 1980 (n/m) (NCFC) - strap_on sally, Sep 8, 23:08:28
  - Thanks. Where is/was Trafford Arms? (n/m) (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Sep 8, 22:32:35
    - here (NCFC) - lovely old job, Sep 8, 22:36:05
      - Ta (n/m) (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Sep 8, 22:47:13
    - Near the old World of Sport site (NCFC) - essexcanaryOTBC, Sep 8, 22:34:52

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