The Kelly's Street Directory of Liverpool shows that the Magnet Supply Stores (Liverpool) Ltd, (described as a grocers), is listed between 1958 and 1966 at 179 Wavertree Road. It was situated between Wynne Street and Scourfield Street, I'm going to assume that is the same shop, although I am not certain.
The shop sold toys, fancy goods, greetings cards and various other things, we had a Dinky Toys franchise and were one of the first shops in Liverpool to sell Action Man. I recreated a photo of what the shop would have looked like, unfortunately all the shops in lower Wavertree Road have been demolished. The shop had a central door and two shop windows like the one depicted below.
It was around 1967 or so that a bus strike caused a lot of the Wavertree Road shops to suffer and eventually, customers were lost and the business was closed. In the years that followed, before 2002, all the shops in that local area were demolished for new housing development, I continue to search for photographs of their old shop, It is sad that not one of us took phootos of it, a life's lesson right there.
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