London Games Stores – Part 2

Her’s the second part of our London Role Playing Game store round-up, I’d not hear of any of these stores before I started going through the back issues of White Dwarf magazine, but that all look fun, wish I could have visited all of these back in the day!

Games World – 129 Kings Street, Hammersmith, London, W6 9JG

Games World WD74 December 1985

Minifigs Skytrex – 13 Gillingham Street, London, SW1

Minifigs Skytrex WD12 April May 1979

North London Fantasy Games – Hanway Print Centre, 106 Essex Road, London, N1

North London Fantasy Games WD10 Dec Jan 1978 1979

Rye Stamp & Hobby Shop – 190 Rye Lane, Peckham, London, SE 15

Rye Stamp & Hobby Shop WD24 April May 1981

Space Oddities – Oddities Market, 72/73 Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1

If I could visit just one store featured here it would be this one, just the name of the place and the slightly trippy looking logo makes me think this place would have been a lot of fun.

Space Oddities WD71 Nov 1985

Space Oddities WD73 Jan 1986

Tally Ho Games – 650 High Road, North Finchley, N12

Tally Ho Games WD 1 June July 1977

Tally Ho WD2 Aug Sep 1977

Tally Ho WD8 Aug Sep 1978

Check back tomorrow when we’ll look at how the London comic book stores of the time got in on the role playing game action!

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