69a Antique Dealers

Even if you’re not necessarily buying something in 69a, its a pleasurable experience just to mooch (a favourite pass time of mine) and the staff are more than happy to let you wander freely around their amazingly interesting haven, what I really like about the place is its organization, which a great many antique/​vintage shops don’t get right, everything is priced… its a gripe of mine when I have to constantly ask for prices!!! and I love the little snippets of information on the tickets… all it lacks is a little coffee shop inside and I would happily spend all day in the place ;)

This is one of many few second hand antique shops in Liverpool and here definitely takes you on a unique quest for odd and rare items. If you are a lover and/​or a collector of special, old fashioned and ethnic gifts, then this dealers provides a wide selection of timeless products to whet your appetite.
Some of the items that stood out to me were their collection of Beano and Dandy comics, which I always used to be a reader of! That certainly brought back some memories and I was surprised that they were still in good condition. Worth every penny! Plus, if you admire traditional ornaments like the Oriental charms, there is a gorgeuos glass cabinet selection to take your fancy.
Prices can vary from one end of the scale to the other. The friendly, knowledgeable owners are always willing to help you if you require and appear wary of your browsing.
This is a treasure chest for antique pursuers but how much treasure of sheer value is present, I wouldn’t know with my untrained eye. Other than that, it’s a gem of a shop.

This place has a delightful little cat which follows you around whilst you ooh and ah at vintage artefacts. I do love 69a Gifts Vintage Clothing but the smell of damp in here really puts me off buying anything!
It’s fun to probe around cabinets of badges and vintage antiques. And there’s also some pretty ‘out-​there’ jackets in here, ranging from army-​sheek to Star Wars-​esque fashion.
My favourite items in here are undoubtedly the strange array of homeware goodies that you wouldn’t find anywhere else. You can guarantee that nobody else is going to own that quirky and somewhat magical-​looking lamp.
One of my favourites.

Absolutely beautiful. I have rarely seen an antique shop so artfully arranged, so welcoming, and so filled with varying treasures for all different tastes, from China dishes to war memorabilia, from vintage clothing to old music scores.
I have probably seen hundreds of antique shops in my short life, and this one is definitely a good one. I hate hole-​in-​the-​wall dusty ones, so anyone who described this as a cave or a mess of crap to dig through is sadly wrong. I felt like I was walking into someone’s house, or as someone else put it nicely – someone’s attic. These were all things worth keeping, and all things that someone, once upon a time, treasured dearly.
My favourite item was the cow creamer I spotted! It brought back memories of P. G. Wodehouse’s Aunt Dahlia needing Bertie to steal a cow creamer from an antique dealer. I wonder if Dahlia knows it’s in Liverpool now?

This is a great little antique boutique to browse on a lazy afternoon, although if you’re as cowardly as me you’ll feel so unnecessarily intimidated you’ll be compelled to buy something for fear of wasting their time. Maybe I was being a tad dramatic. They’re not the police.
With a shopfront that hasn’t been dusted in years and the word ‘curios’ used to describe their wares, I may have been expecting more than they could provide. My imagination flashed thoughts of myself unearthing the crew of the Marie Celeste or a mogwai. In reality, it’s a secluded, scruffy palace of knick-​knacks that can devour hours of your time.
In case you’re wondering, I bought something called ‘The Victory Book’. I haven’t read it yet, just in case it doesn’t live up to the daunting might of its name.

I always come here for a browse, just because I’m never really sure what I’m going to find!
Dust-​covered hardback poetry and prose share shelving happily with Dance and Acid House records and 18^th century chinese dynasty clocks share cabinet space with tatty looking curios. It is all seemingly a jumbled explosion of antiques with an Art Deco style figure, worth £450 rubbing shoulders with a disused chimney pot.
However, clearly although there are second hand clothes, earrings, ties galore, records and brooches, knick-​knacks and badges there are also some pretty good buys if you fancy yourself as a bit of a collector (or at least have seen enough episodes of Antiques Roadshow to think you can spot a bargain).
Mainly you need to look up to see these, the expensive stuff tends to be locked away or like the vases which line the walls, a little out of reach.
In the glass cases at the front I noticed 69A has a great selection of pottery from Poole’s to a really cool 1960s Wedgewood blown glass art vase.
The wierdest thing that sticks out in my mind which I’ve seen in one of the back cabinets is an unused pair of 1965 pajamas Age 2 – 3 still in its cellophane. Odd. So come here if you want an interesting and strange trip back in time!

69A is a bohemian boutique of curious antiques and retro clothing from all over the world.
1950’s military sunglasses, 1960’s Peruvian Blow Pipes, 1980’s Mills and Boon books and 1970’s floral shirts are just a few of the hundreds of items for sale in this casket of wonders!
This is a great shop for a browse, it has the atmosphere of a hippy antique shop, far away from the snobbish furniture and booksellers that tend to run such places. The staff are laid back and chatty, always happy to help or talk about items they sell, with no pressure to buy anything.
For students, they have a huge selection of retro clothing, going back as far as the 1930’s. The stuff they sell is fairly pricey but this place is definitely worth a look just to see some of the strange items that they have acquired from across the globe.

A secondhand shop selling everything from antiques to records and vintage clothes to household goods. Although the stock is mainly secondhand, it does also carry new items, with a selection of ethnic goods. These include sculptures, jewellery and wall hangings from places including Peru and Africa. You can pick up gifts for anywhere from 50p or £500.
If you go to 69a at the first weeked of any month, you can get 20% off.

Like an Aladdin’s cave, 69a is a bit like your granddad’s loft — OK my granddad’s loft — as it sticks firmly to the idea that one man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure. 69a has so much of everything that the term ‘curios’ used describe its wares is probably the most accurate.
I’m not suggesting that there aren’t lots of valuable and collectible items here — there’s probably shedloads that my unspohisticated eyes are not aware of — but decades of hoarding and gathering an assortment of clothing, furniture, vinyl, trinkets, etc, etc makes 69a a fascinating and bewildering experience.

This is quite simply the cutest little antiques shop you’ll ever see, especially with the use of the word ‘curios’ in describing what it sells on the frontage. Here you’ll find everything from chessboards to African masks, quirky pots and jugs to rocking horses, clocks to books… I could go on. Literally, it would take me pages to tell you what’s available here.
Better still you should see it for yourself. It’s so adorable with its rickety signs and ‘homemade’, wholesome feel, you’ll instantly feel comfy and find it all rather endearing. The staff are friendly too, always welcoming, greeting you and letting you know they’re there if you need them. It was born in 1976 and got its name from its old premises on Renshaw Street a little further up the road. The extra name, just in case too many teenagers make grotesquely sexual jokes, ‘Intandane’, means ‘something to be loved’. Very appropriate when one is trawling for retro treasures.
It’s so unique, you’re unlikely to find a bric-​à-​brac store such as this elsewhere in the north west, let alone Liverpool. And this isn’t junk they’re selling, this is really top of the range antiquey goodness. It’s weird and wonderful, kind of like stumbling through the looking glass and finding yourself somewhere Noël Fielding and Julian Barratt would feel rather at home. Brilliant.

Yes, I’m a little bit odd and like owning stuff nobody else has, and usually this means either making it myself, having it made by somebody else, or finding really old stuff that doesn’t get made anymore. As far as the latter goes, it seems this is a catching on trend, and is known as ‘vintage’.
Everyone wants something vintage. Which makes me want it less. However, 69A manages to keep me grounded. It’s just off-​the-​cuff enough to stay out of mainstream, and has a feeling that you’ve clambered into the boot of a Lada at a car boot sale (those not as old fashioned as me may want to google Lada cars…) It is packed with goodies from all eras, and has enough variety to keep you sifting through for a whole afternoon, should the feeling take you.
Hopefully not about to be hijacked by the kids who view it as a fad, 69A has been around long enough to hold its own in the vintage stakes and outlast the craze. And then I can go back to liking vintage again.

This place is brilliant, but be careful! I always end up spending far to much time in here, there is so much to look at! I recently got a new place and have been kitting it out with cool stuff from here, get down and check it out, a must for visitors and locals.

This place isn’t a ‘posh’ antique dealers, but rather an Aladdin’s cave of all sorts. You can find little nick nacks from cheap LPs to decorative items. It also sells some clothes and are all reasonably priced. On the first weekend of every month there is a 20% off event. Definitely a must visit!