A long shot I know

[HHH]

I live in Derby and I don't know how I had failed to remember this since my time of joining this community. I am not sure of the time frame as it was a fleeting visit at a time when I was absolutely skint so maybe early to late 90's.
I was out just walking around the area and a shop had opened that was selling pinball machines. I popped in just for a look and I was greeted by a couple of nice guys who told me that they were for sale and that some machines fetched as much as a couple of thousand quid.
This was the first time that I knew that you could actually buy one for your home use but I was married with 3 children and had no funds to purchase even a cheap machine so I duly left and cursed my inability to possess one.

I have done a search and found a picture of where the shop was located and I was wondering if anybody knew the guys who ran it or how long it was there for?
Any information at all really would be great.

I think it was located on a corner of Nuns Street and Mill Street and is the building on the right of this image which is now a Sainsburys Local.

 

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[HHH]

This has really got me racking my brains now as I am normally extremely good with timelines and what I was doing, where and when.
Maybe it was a dream I had as I just cannot pinpoint the correct years.

 

[JT.]

A bit of internet sleuthing and I can tell you that shop in your pic (a bike shop) was there from 1932 to 1984 (link). From old pics on Google maps, it turned into a Sainsbury's some time before 2008. And before Sainsbury's, it was a Jackson's Local store until at least 2006 when they submitted a planning application for a door. I've had no luck finding out who owned it before Jackson's Local, but assuming it is that location, your date range is narrowed down to between 1984 and 2006.

 

[HHH]

Thanks for researching that for me It has got me thinking now as that's a good sized frontage and I remember it being a smaller area and one chap came from out of the back through a curtained doorway maybe.
I had it in my mind that the room I was in had maybe 4 machines in it and knowing what I know now then maybe behind the "door" was possibly a storage/workshop area which doesn't account for the rest of the floor area.
I was feeling overwhelmed at the time as I wasn't going to buy one but I was very interested in the fact that you could actually own a machine.

 

[HHH]

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