Footage of Jacklins High Street Restaurant and Sweet Shop Colchester, Essex
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The Final Days of Jacklins Restaurant showing the shop with its Cigars, Chocolates, and Kitchens. Interview conducted by Paul Diggens with Owner Stephen Jacklin Himself
Thank you for posting this, my Mum and sister are in it - such a lovely memory
My partner, Linda Stones, worked at 'Jacklin's' in the early 1980s on all of the counters. This video brought back many memories, but what couldn't be shown she said was the sound of the creaking woodwork as you went upstairs and the aroma of the place; a mixture of coffee, chocolate and fine tobacco. Mr Jacklin was an exacting and kind employer, fondly remembered by her.
How lovely. Loved this shop and there's a clip of my late mum and my sister walking outside the shop. Made my day seeing Mum. Thanks for this great memory.
Wonderful memories thank you so much.
I have such happy memories of Jacklin’s as a former Colcestrian. I used to go there in the sixties and seventies with my family and loved the toasted tea cakes which came under silver lids. So sad that it has to go - I loved the film - I even remember the staircase up to the restaurant and the lovely smells on the ground floor of tobacco, freshly ground coffee and chocolate -sadly missed….
Jacklins was wonderful. I remember having my birthday lunch as a child there in the mid 1980s. Cucumber sandwiches, white table clothes.
Great place to buy my cigars, I also went out with one of the girls there back in the 80s
I feel obliged to leave a note here with my story. At a local auction recently in Stockport I bought five large old storage tins, each with a round lid and decorated with chinese characters and patterns. They were obviously of some age, well used and a bit bashed but still complete, functional and attractive. They all had the remnants of old sticky labels and sellotape on them and in a couple (after prising open their lids) I actually found a few coffee beans. I also came across a small label (could be a blank price label) stuck on the bottom of one that said "Jacklins Colchester". I wondered if it was possible that the tins could have come from this establishment, a long shot but thought I'd investigate on the Internet.
Imagine my astonishment to see trhe actual tins in this video, complete with their original coffee contens labels - they first appear on a shelf as a set of three at 4m30s into the video; Im guessing I have the set of five tins that appear slightly later on a lower shelf at 4m 55s. What are the chances of actually seeing the tins in situ?!! I must say I'm delighted and very thankful to the Colchester History Channel for posting this video and allowing me to have provenance for my purchase 🙂
Smell that coffee now ❤️
Hi, This very interesting. Does anyone remember the first Tesco store in Colchester? It was in Culver Street East. John
wonder why he didnt he lease the business to another owner such a shame