Fred Aldous Review

Helpful staff, great range of art and craft supplies

If you a creative attack, this is the place to visit. Go down the stairs and you will find literally everything to fulfill your needs.

If it's anything to do with art and crafts you need this is the shop to visit.

Working on an art project or looking to follow your passion? Fred Aldous has everything you'd need to get started. The selection is great and the staff really know their stuff, although price is quite high due to being one of the only places in Manchester to provide this service.

These guys are great. I went in with a very spurious request for advice and they took the time to offer all sorts of options and ideas

Great arts and craft shop over two floors staff really helpful

Incredible !! So much stuff upstairs and down . EVERY art n craft equipment available and some lovely cards and note books n stuff .

Amazing, an Aladdin's cave of awesome art supplies

Love doing crafting and these guys have everything I need

Staff are helpful and knowledgeable, great selection of arts and crafts materials.

Tried the click and collect service in Manchester. I managed to mess up my order. The very friendly guys there were able to sort it out for me in no time and get me exactly what I needed. Without any tills open or customer access to the shop. Many Thanks! Great shop and great customer service.

Great place for all your arts and craft requirements. Some places are not accessible by wheelchair though.

Great assortment of EVERYTHING however prices sometimes can be a bit on the high side

My best supplier. I make candles and buy almost everything from Fred Aldous. Love them even more : I recently placed an order and usually I get my supply in a day or two but this time almost a week had gone and when I checked my order, I had accidentally clicked on collect instead of delivery. (Guess it was sitting waiting for me to collect). I sent out an email and explained my error. I was even more surprised the very next morning to receive my parcel. How great was that? Even more magical was it when I got an email to say I need not pay for postage!!! Thank you ever so much. You the best.

If my big sis could live here she would, enough said.

Provides pretty much every piece of art and craft equipment/material you will need!

They also offer a student discount, which is great, especially when you are an art student wanting to grab cheap and quality art supplies.

Absolutely incredible selection of products. If I won billions in the lottery; I'd definitely consider Fred Aldous to be one of my first shopping hauls.

Amazing variety of products, 4 stars only because everything is a bit too expensive. Very helpful staff.

It took a while for them to get my item, but they were well dedicated in making sure I got it

If you love arts and craft this is the place to be.

Bit expensive but good for gifts and loads of art supplies on the floors below

This place is great, and so much there too, price is good,, some demmo station would make the world a better place

Great shop, huge with three floors of all your crafting needs. Knowledgeable staff.

Great branch of Fred Aldous, they have everything a creative could ever want and need, no matter what medium. Staff are friendly and helpful, I could spend hours in here.

Don't forget to checkout the two lower floors in the basement!

As ever, they have an amazing stock of arts and craft material but they've added a great selection of well designed gift items.

been going over 40 years .need some thing in this field give it a try.

From what I saw its very well stocked, but very poorly stocked with what I needed. It's a huge place, friendly staff. Just let down with resin craft accessories.

10 year ago I used to fancy myself as a bit of an artist, I would spend ages every week mesmerised at everything they had to offer. I would always treat myself to a new fineliner or pencil or a new sketchbook. I recently returned for a visit and once again got lost in there. Absolutely amazing little place, even left with a new sketchbook, pencil and fineliner... For old times sake.

Everything an artist could want under one roof. Its like a fantasy. The multiple layers of the building too make in an adventure looking through the store.

My number one go to for all my art and modelling needs. They have a great range of brands and in house equipment.

Great collection of art supplies and material. Totally recommend visiting!!

Amazing service and stuff you won't find anywhere else in Manchester

Fred Aldous is an awesome shop for arts and crafts. I bought a new sketchbook which was great value for money. The staff were very friendly and the shop was very well layed out so I could easily locate products. I would highly reccomend this shop to anyone wanting to buy high quality art materials.

Great for finding craft supplies you didn't think you'd need. Staff very helpful & informative if you have a query on a product or techniques. Prices are reasonable & competative therefore no need to shop on Amazon etc. As you can get help & advice when you buy & also as everything is on show, you get instant ideas & you don't have to wait in for a delivery driver!

Upstairs gifts and novelty; downstairs comprehensive art and craft supplies. Great shop

So many art and craft materials I could spend hours in here. Friendly staff too

If you're in any way interested in craft then pop in - good selection of gifts too

3 floors of art supplies! Don't forget to pile into the photo booth with your friends!

We always visit when we are in Manchester and find it a lovely place to find art supplies and craft materials not always available in Northern Ireland. Great place to browse and very helpful staff. Can guarantee on your first visit you won't have seen it all and will be keen to go again very soon.

Great selection of goodies for all your crafting needs! Super helpful and friendly staff as well!

Great place to look around makes you want to have more time

Fantastic store with knowledgable staff and a very wide selection of products. Prices are reasonable with different brands depending on your tastes.

I mostly come to buy the Fred Aldous cartridge pads as they're the best paper. Both quality & price.

THE place in Manchester to pick up absolutely anything related to arts and crafts - coloured card, paint, fake fur, stained glass kits, stencils etc etc etc. Over the years it has expanded slowly and the lower basement area now has several workshop areas for photography, screen printing etc. I love the retro photobooths upstairs with the orange and blue curtains that take me back to getting photos for my school buspass.

Great selection of art supply products, friendly staff and clear safety protocol at the moment with Covid!

Very disappointing .Entrance no good for the disabled in scooters
there is a 2" lip to put up with and most of the craft stuff is downstairs with NO LIFT.

A treasure trove for anyone who has a creative bone in their body. At least three floors of arty goodness to explore, plus multiple photobooths for some retro photo fun. I hear they contribute supplies to the street artists who work on the space outside too - which is ace. Generally a really great vibe. Buy stuff already!

Went here for the first time last night for a Local Google event. What an amazing place! So many things all under one roof. It's an artists dream. I felt like I was in wonderland most of the evening. Highly recommended to any arts and crafts . They've also got a great little photo studio in-house that you can hire and some awesome retro photo booths in store. What a little gem!

My fave shop in Manchester, a treasure trove of goodies to be found here!

One of my favourite shops, has everything you need, but is very pricey

It's not the cheapest but they have a brilliant selection of art and craft supplies, plus some nice gift-y type stuff. Great history behind the business too and they run workshops in the back.

Loads of stuff. Good to browse. Not cheap, you get what you pay for.

Lots of cute stationery and crafts. There is also a laser studio for use on the lowest floor which is fun to look into.

I used to love this place as a child...its only got better

Everything you need for that art project under one roof.

Reasonably priced excellent quality art and craft supplies, and with a huge range of stock - if you need something, they'll almost certainly have it.

Staff are friendly and can always help you out if you need advice or suggestions and, to top it all off, it's just a great looking shop.

Genuinely can't fault it.

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A large craft store within a short walking distance from Piccadilly gardens in Manchester. Expanded over the years to cover three large showroom floors. They have a really comprehensive collection of crafting items covering most arts and artisan crafts together with some gift items too. They also have a laser cutting service in store where you can realise your own designs. A quirky touch are three vintage photo booths which are fully working and which are I believe available for hire at events.
Very impressed.

Great art shop and the photo booths are great fun. My kids love spending hours in this shop looking though all the trendy sets they can buy

Lovely store, great photo booths. So much lovely stock to explore

Is good. My daughter wanted to buy some resin. The woman who helped us had obviously used resin and gave us good advice, something you can't get online.