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  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    tower records, daddy kool records and those awful angus aberdeen steakhouse places
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,008
    Dales
    Ravels
  • meldrew66
    meldrew66 Posts: 2,561
    Anyone old enuf to remember the Snooker Club above Fosters in the old Bexleyheath Broadway? It was opposite the Clock, where 'Game' is now. You walked up a side staircase to it and was buzzed in. I remember Andy Townsend was a member there. Good old Fred the owner, sadly now gone. Moved to Sidcup High street. Initally in a portakabin behind the high street then above the shops opposite where the old cinema was. His son Steve took over running the business................ahh, memories.
  • Mrkinski
    Mrkinski Posts: 957
    iaitch said:

    Just read the whole thread, I would like to contribute Dales Menswear shops and Catford Dogtrack.

    First mention I've seen on t'internet for Dales menswear. My first post-school job was at Dales - worked in Woolwich, Sidcup, Lewisham and New Cross branches. They basically made cheap copies of trends of the day. I remember their farahs copies - with a d (for dales) instead of an f label!
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    Blockbuster
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    The bakers across the road from where I lived.


    We moved....
  • Pavo
    Pavo Posts: 758
    Kiddie City (Lewisham Centre) - the birthplace of my very nerdy and very many hundred piece Star Wars collection. A small store, but they refreshed stock quickly and did good deals.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    Index, the catalogue shop, basically Argos mark 2.

    Do It All, diy chain, can still remember the jingle from their tv ads.
  • Robbo on the wing
    Robbo on the wing Posts: 4,135
    Pavo said:

    Kiddie City (Lewisham Centre) - the birthplace of my very nerdy and very many hundred piece Star Wars collection. A small store, but they refreshed stock quickly and did good deals.

    My mum was the manageress.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,024
    Pavo said:

    Kiddie City (Lewisham Centre) ...

    Closed as part of Operation Yewtree? ;-)
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  • Sidcup_Robin
    Sidcup_Robin Posts: 358
    Anyone remember Regal Sports along Eltham High Street opposite the church?
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,566
    Marriots toy shop on Stanstead Rd And Dartmouth Rd in Forest Hill
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Cecil Gee - now gone I think?
  • bc_addick
    bc_addick Posts: 761
    WH Cullen anybody?
  • Tutt-Tutt
    Tutt-Tutt Posts: 3,272
    Kap10 said:

    Marriots toy shop on Stanstead Rd And Dartmouth Rd in Forest Hill

    Marrotts was a sports shop in Dartmouth Road. Bought my first Adidas/ Puma trainers in there around 1972. Also sold subbuteo teams and remember buying a black and white continental leather football from there, when most other sports shops were still selling lace-up leather footballs.
  • mickc
    mickc Posts: 573
    Club Sports Wellington Street, Woolwich, also Sams Surplus Store & Faith Bros
  • rananegra
    rananegra Posts: 3,689
    record shops generally i used to spend a lot of time in TW in Erith when I was at school. There was also one in Sidcup High St that sold cheap European imports of regular Lps, so my copy of Dare by the Human League had Greek on the label!
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,290
    ads said:

    tower records, daddy kool records and those awful angus aberdeen steakhouse places

    The steak house places still exist, there's at least 2 within 5 minutes of Leicester Square
  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,057
    dizzee said:

    Blockbuster

    just read through 19 pages... all the time ready to post a triumphant BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO at the end, only to be beaten to it
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,645
    mickc said:

    Club Sports Wellington Street, Woolwich, also Sams Surplus Store & Faith Bros


    Sams was where i bought a pair of cherry red cappers.......that i think were bigger than me at the time.
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  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,608
    edited February 2018
    Soon to be Toys R Us and Maplin, maybe New Look and House of Fraser in the not too distant future!

    Karma in some ways for Toys R Us as they killed the independent toy stores and now Amazon has killed them..
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Siv_in_Norfolk said:

    dizzee said:

    Blockbuster

    just read through 19 pages... all the time ready to post a triumphant BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO at the end, only to be beaten to it
    Never liked that place ever since I asked if I could borrow 'Batman Forever' and the bloke said 'No, it's got to be back by Tuesday.'

    Or should that be on the 'jokes you never see any more' thread?
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Me and the missus used to love a stroll round Toys R Us.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    showell toys
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,599
    palarsehater said:

    showell toys

    The big one on the corner of the Oval?
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,296
    meant the one in eltham used to go there with my nan and grandad, didnt know if it was still about.

    gameraiders in crayford?
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,867
    Sidcup_Robin said:

    Anyone remember Regal Sports along Eltham High Street opposite the church?

    Always used to go swimming in Eltham baths around 84/85 on a Saturday morning then come out and head over to Regal and look longingly at the trainers until finally my Dad bought me a pair of Nike vandals.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    Was there a shop down the end of Bexleyheath Broadway called Woodruffs or something similar. I used to buy all my Subbutteo teams there?
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,960
    sillav nitram said:

    Was there a shop down the end of Bexleyheath Broadway called Woodruffs or something similar. I used to buy all my Subbutteo teams there?

    It was just past the Danson lights going towards Welling. Used to sell guns I think!
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,960
    Ice Age freezer store in Erith.

    Land of toys in Bexleyheath.

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