This Billy’s Boards advert announces the move of their shop to Chesterton Road in Cambridge. Townsends still have that shop (in 2006) but seem to be only selling bikes there. The Billy’s skate shop is now elsewhere, but seems to be going strong.
Off Beat Sportz are another of those shops who have been going for ages, plugging away supplying generation after generation of skaters. I find that very reassuring at a time when so much of the skateboard world in the UK has changed beyond recognition. But I also miss some of those who have not survived, notably Alpine Action on a personal level.