I wrote this for a newspaper last year, when my local Blockbuster – which I had worked at for few years – was closing down.

With today marking the closure of the last remaining UK stores, I thought I’d share it…

A Blockbuster store in the UK

One of the many stricken Blockbuster stores           Picture: Elliot Brown

The Rob mentioned in the story went on to manage another Blockbuster store. Yesterday he turned the lights off there for the last time.

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This weekend, the book closed on what had been quite a large part of my life.

After 22 years, Blockbuster in Canterbury has closed its doors, ready to be smashed into pieces in preparation for a new hotel with too few parking spaces.

For many, I expect it was just another video shop, but the big blue store by the crossroads always meant more to me.

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