Klobba

A long, long time ago we neglected to report a new shop on Clemens St., Klobba, which sells army surplus gear, and clothes in any colour you like as long as it's khaki.

Update: corrected. This site was never Buygones, which remains vacant. It was a housewares shop whos name we don't have on record.

Old Town Subway: confirmed

We speculated that the site previously occupied by Sign Depot on Victoria Terrace may become a Subway sandwich shop.

On Sunday, the Subway sign was being erected over the shop front.

Legends to close

"Legends" surf/skate/boarding clothes shop on the Parade, is closing down. "Ex" on Livery Street, which is already open, is its replacement.

Faith shoe shop: open

The previously mentioned "Faith" shoe shop has opened, upstairs in the Royal Priors.

Frère Jacques

"Frère Jacques", a cafe and patisserie, has opened at the Regent Street end of Livery Street, in the Regent Court development. It's right next door to Starbucks, which is now advertising acoustic music on Tuesdays -- I envisage something along the lines of Phoebe from Friends singing the Smelly Cat song.

Old Butcher's → The Copper Pot

Leamington Changelog contributor Mike writes:

"The Old Butchers pub is now The Copper Pot pub, but you probably knew that already."

No, I didn't know that already. Thanks Mike. Contributions are always welcome and help us make the Leamington Changelog a faster, better service.

Here's hoping the Copper Pot name is as long-lived and successful as its predecessor (which replaced "The Hogshead" less than a year ago).

Baroque → The Fox

Baroque on Clarendon Avenue has changed its name to The Fox.

Dr & Herbs

In the olden days, people used to have to put little rolls of chemically treated celluloid into their cameras, then take the rolls to a shop, which would do some more chemical stuff, and produce photographs on paper, which you could only show people by actually transporting the pieces of paper to somewhere they could look at them.

One such shop was Supasnaps on Warwick Street.

Of course, there's no call for that kind of olde-worlde technology any more, so the shop has become an ultra-modern state of the art Chinese medicine shop, called Dr & Herbs