If my memory is right, I think Benz was one of those skate shops set up by the parents of a skater. I’m not sure how long they survived. Interesting to note Vision Streetwear in there alongside the likes of H Street. They also seem to be selling brands like Levis and Pepe, making me wonder, in hindsight, whether this might have been an off-shoot of a clothing shop. The shape of things to come… There’s a game you can play tagging what each of the skate craze booms was actually about: seventies = skateboarding, eighties = surf clothing, nineties = shoes and so on.
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I used to work at this store.. some real good memories.. and Ben is living the life now..
Rest in peace Tim Adams… regards, Leighton.
It was a great shop, Skate stuff up stairs and fashion stuff down stairs. Tim was a sucessfull businessman who set up the shop so he didn’t have to drive 1 hour to get his son Ben his skate stuff. We even had a Benz’s skate team at one point and nearly won a team skate comp in Guildford until that lot from SouthSea turned up and robbed us! Tim did a lot for us, he even got Ed Templeton to come skate our local Zebra ramp back in the day when New Deal did the UK tour and paid Sean Goff 50 quid to skate with the locals when the shop opened – you remeber that one Sean, laying down rock and rolls on the impossibly big steep bank behind McDonalds?
Tim saw the future of where Skating was headed, I am sad to hear he never got to see it come to pass.
Rest in Peace Tim!
James.