Footage from LeisureWorld, Queen Street, Belfast, 1989-1994. Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project - ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI.
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@DeckyStrikesBack6 жыл бұрын
This video is a real treasure. Leisureworld was heaven as a kid. I remember hearing Paul McCartneys Wonderful Christmas Time in there and to this day it reminds me of leisureworld. I had more imagination than my parents had money, but I always came out of there with a treat. Thank you for uploading this.
@JohnMcMahon.3 жыл бұрын
Who remembers the Model shop next door with all the radio controlled cars, planes and boats. I loved the big model cars but they were too expensive for us but Leisure World was good enough for me. 👍 Wonder if that Model shop is still there? There was an Easons down the street as well, used to get my school stuff in there.
@jimsimpson10065 ай бұрын
Model Shop and Easons both long gone I'm afraid.
@craigkirk68004 жыл бұрын
My childhood loved the place couldn’t get enough of he man and the masters of the universe toys. Belfast definitely not the same without it.
@vindicari Жыл бұрын
sad day when it closed, I loved the model section. Airfix, Tamiya etc.
@footballgeorgiebest2 жыл бұрын
As a young teen I would go there to look at the Santa Cruz decks. I saved up and bought a Rob Roskopp Face deck.
@Jumpmaster3372 жыл бұрын
I worked there as Christmas staff in 96. Great company to work for. Paul Wright, the manager, fired me (deservedly) on Christmas Eve. I got off lightly. I’d like to apologise to him but also thank him if anyone knows him.
@skimmingstoness10 ай бұрын
What a shit doing that
@pollypineapple284 жыл бұрын
The memories! I loved the barbie section! And I’m still devastated they tore it down, for a car park, which is an ugly eye sore! Best shop ever! We went every Saturday, first we went to Billy’s for lunch a few doors down, and I was always blackmailed to eat all my chips or I wouldn’t get to go to leisure world! Wish this shop still existed
@butchreed2132 жыл бұрын
I only have flash memories of videogames.
@nickybutt97332 жыл бұрын
Happiest place ever as a kid
@EBfast2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant footage. So many memories going up those stairs to the Star Wars and Action Man figures…….good days!
@butchreed2132 жыл бұрын
Did this place have a trainset?
@EBfast2 жыл бұрын
@@butchreed213 it did, that went around the ceiling
@carsieplg5 жыл бұрын
Best shop Belfast ever had i got a matchbox car every week for tears out of it and free pickamix too
@frizzyred12925 жыл бұрын
I remember every Saturday morning going into town with my mum, once inside, straight up those steps turn left and round to the batman toys lol! Aw, great memories.
@sofarout28404 жыл бұрын
I bought my first games console, Sony Mega Drive 16 Bit, next door in the Model Shop. Missed that place. I did also by models from years before, until they turned it into a parking lot.
@Fatman312 жыл бұрын
*Core memory unlocked* thank you so much for this :D
@asl199995 жыл бұрын
The memories. Thank you for uploading
@RandomnessTube.5 жыл бұрын
Amazing footage in my mid 30s now but this place was part of my early life every saturday top floor for the games consoles what i would do to go back and walk in there one last time with my mum thanks for uploading.
@TheTrueKailash4 жыл бұрын
loved going here but didn't get to go that often. model world next door was just as fascinating
@jostevi58444 жыл бұрын
Brings back great memories of my children
@JJMCB262 жыл бұрын
I have an aunt that works in Belfast (who is godmother over me) and she always gifted me with Lego sets bought from this store for my birthday and Xmas presents when I was a kid back in the '90s 🙂
@gerv555 жыл бұрын
And now it's a car park :(
@josephhanley6683 жыл бұрын
My dream store how belfast really miss the fantastic store and its friendly staff is
@katiepersons65754 жыл бұрын
It was a damn good camera for the 80's that took this footage!
@jimsimpson10065 ай бұрын
I think this was professional video.
@walker67723 жыл бұрын
Fantastic footage..loved that shop. One in Lisburn was great as well. Happy memories 😊
@TheArtGearGuide3 жыл бұрын
We had a Leisureworld in Lisburn and when I used to live in Newtownards in Woolco they had one but at Christmas time we always used to visit the Bangor shop and they had the most amazing Star Wars store front. I used to remember saving my pocket money abs every few weeks had enough to buy a new Star Wars figure. So many amazing memories in Leisureworld
@davecunningham61032 жыл бұрын
I miss this place!
@pellmara504510 ай бұрын
One of my fondest memories is playing Diddy Kong Racing on the Nintendo 64 demo kiosk on the 2nd floor during the lead up to Christmas - the first time I ever saw 3D computer game graphics, blew my 6 year old mind!
@carlogambino1979 Жыл бұрын
Was in it once in the 1980s when I was a boy, it was heaven all the great toys. But then one day I got caught up in a bombing nearby and that left me too terrified to set foot in Belfast til the mid 1990s.
@JohnMcMahon.3 жыл бұрын
Used to love this shop.. Remember trying to coax my Ma or Da in there on the way home from the town. If you went home with a Leisure World bag, you went home with a smile on your face. 😁 Great memories, my Da always got me a new Football or a Matchbox Car or a toy gun. My Ma always told me to hide the bag before going into the house because she never got my brothers anything. 😂 They got their turn too though, I wasn’t the blue eye. 😉
@equinoxeparabellum67763 жыл бұрын
My father was CoOp manager for toys , Frank Hamill so most of my toys were from the CoOp in the 1970s. I do remember getting a remote control car which I believe was from leisure world. Thanks for posting. Happy times.
@JohnMcMahon.3 жыл бұрын
Model World was next door to Leisure World, that’s probably where you got your RC Car. 😉
@Ramacfc782 жыл бұрын
With technology we have went backwards. Belfast City Centre used to have so many great shops and a lot of character about it. It's absolutely pathetic now and has no soul whatsoever. Very disappointing. Anderson Mcauley around the corner from leisure world also had a superb set up around Christmas time
@butchreed2132 жыл бұрын
When they were doing a similar video in hmv or virgin megastore, I was filmed at age 12 checking out all the playboy and softcore films. When and why did it close, I only remember it cos i was getting into gaming. Toys r us had a good wee store back in 95 on boucher rd!
@Ramacfc782 жыл бұрын
@@butchreed213 haha brilliant
@bertiebassett847 ай бұрын
Top floor with the games consoles and right on vehicles. This video almost killed me with the nostalgia.
@gaggymott91595 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh yes. Remember when we HAD toy shops to dander round at Christmas? Nowadays it's all no-touch, online shopping. Boring as fuck! 🙁
@jonathanallen654Ай бұрын
Much missed. Would wander in the odd time during lunch break release from miserable Ulster Bank. Met one of the UB Advances Managers in there one day - a short guy, he was in the Action Man section looking for a new suit!
@oml81mm2 жыл бұрын
This place was a dance hall originally, complete with spring floor. Not sure of the name though, Romano's maybe.
@fantasybuilds3d453 жыл бұрын
Not sure where you got your info from but leisureworld was open in the 70s ,NOT in 1989 as stated in your description
@skimmingstoness10 ай бұрын
It actually closed in 1998 because I remember buying a Tamagotchi in about 1996 or 1997
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@yootchoobe Жыл бұрын
Judging by the Mariah Carey song All I Want For Christmas playing in the background, this can't be any earlier than 1994 😊
@jd06044 жыл бұрын
Got me Atari here
@raymonddoyle5915 жыл бұрын
Does anyone have footage or video of the old star wars dioramas Leisureworld had back around 1983 I think it was or maybe a little earlier.
@fantasybuilds3d453 жыл бұрын
Why would it have a star wars display when the description states it opened in 1989 🤣🤣🤣
@frankieocco4751 Жыл бұрын
@@fantasybuilds3d45 It opened in 1976 and closed in 1998.
@Rick_Cleland2 жыл бұрын
🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭
@carolhamilton25122 жыл бұрын
Always wonder why it went christmas club was great in it
@kenday4812 Жыл бұрын
My Two Sister in Laws Was Born in Belfast.
@ffspablo87394 жыл бұрын
I used to spend the whole day on the beak in this shop late 80s early 90s and sometimes came home with the school bag filled lol
@MrCharlesWidmore3 жыл бұрын
Ah Jaysus, remember the big blue and white plastic carrier begs.....
@jamestoni5 жыл бұрын
got my first rangers kit in here around 1985
@bryanstevenson30634 жыл бұрын
Simpler times
@ruairijoseph3 жыл бұрын
How the f*uk would a shop owner organise all of that before the internet...
@mariemackey5121 Жыл бұрын
Some store ...
@stevenroddy70133 жыл бұрын
i remember prukin out of here when my da would spend the child welfare in the 147 across the road, good times.