Trevor's Supermarket, Ribble Road, 1998

Why are these children crying? I have no idea, but  it must have held some interest for me to take a picture.

This is on Ribble Rd, between the college and Central Drive, and the reason I was there was to visit Trevor's - a shop of legendary status amongst students.

Actually, to call Trevor's a shop would be somewhat pretentious. It was a place where you could buy things to put in your mouth if you were skint & hungry. The first thing that struck you about the place is that it didn't have  any windows. It was boarded up with chipboard and barbed wire. It gave the appearance that  the owners  were anticipating the imminent collapse of civilisation or perhaps a zombie apocalypse. 

Once you got inside it wasn't any different. Trevor's mainly sold stuff in cans or plastic bottles  that was cheap and would last a long time if you didn't have a fridge. You could also buy a can of baked beans for 5p.

That said, the ladies on the till were always very nice to me - and it was one of the few places you could buy extra long Rizla papers.

My abiding memory of  Trevor's was meeting my friend Alex outside who'd just been to this chip shop which hired out video films. They had a very eclectic selection and on this occasion he got out a horror film about a woman with a talking vagina.

You could usually tell when someone had got a video from there because  the cases were always covered in a thick layer of chip fat which needed to be scraped off before inserting it into the video player.

You can see a picture of Trevor's as captured by Google Streetview below.

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