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Baldybonce
Baldybonce Posts: 9,707
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Bowes the shoe shop in Charlton village has closed down.
Those of us brought up in Charlton would know its where you got your first DMs, Monkey boots and Desert boots.
Another Icon gone.

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  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Only place I used to go for desert boots when j lived Sth

  • Charltonparklane
    Charltonparklane Posts: 5,786
    edited December 2015
    Shit, Adidas kicks were staples from there growing up.
    Sad
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,225
    Blimey, they've been there forever.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Baldybonce said:

    Bowes the shoe shop in Charlton village has closed down.
    Those of us brought up in Charlton would know its where you got your first DMs, Monkey boots and Desert boots.
    Another Icon gone.

    Remember sitting in there trying them on and me mum saying
    "Now you're sure they fit"
    "Wiggle your big toe"
    "Walk up and down"

    And I think they supplied me and me bruvs stanford sport shoes for the elite athlete, which were put to good use on the climbing apparatus at Fossdene Prep School
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,947
    Roland has bought it deliberately.
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,805
    Utterly amazed it stayed open as long as it did!

    Shame though.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,707
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    Baldybonce said:

    Bowes the shoe shop in Charlton village has closed down.
    Those of us brought up in Charlton would know its where you got your first DMs, Monkey boots and Desert boots.
    Another Icon gone.

    Remember sitting in there trying them on and me mum saying
    "Now you're sure they fit"
    "Wiggle your big toe"
    "Walk up and down"

    And I think they supplied me and me bruvs stanford sport shoes for the elite athlete, which were put to good use on the climbing apparatus at Fossdene Prep School
    are Stanford sports shoes posh plimsolls?
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Baldybonce said:

    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    Baldybonce said:

    Bowes the shoe shop in Charlton village has closed down.
    Those of us brought up in Charlton would know its where you got your first DMs, Monkey boots and Desert boots.
    Another Icon gone.

    Remember sitting in there trying them on and me mum saying
    "Now you're sure they fit"
    "Wiggle your big toe"
    "Walk up and down"

    And I think they supplied me and me bruvs stanford sport shoes for the elite athlete, which were put to good use on the climbing apparatus at Fossdene Prep School
    are Stanford sports shoes posh plimsolls?
    Yeah ; )
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    I used to like looking in the window and seeing the hand-written prices on the rectangular cardboard tickets. Where else can you purchase Monkey Boots, locally? What will it become of the shop now? A nail parlour? Betting shop?
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,595
    edited December 2015
    Nooooooooo. Another part of my childhood gone. Still at least there'll always be CAFC......

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  • Robbo on the wing
    Robbo on the wing Posts: 4,135
    Clem_Snide said:

    Utterly amazed it stayed open as long as it did!

    Shame though.

    agree
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Don't know what happened to my suggestion of what I thought would become of the shop now? Just vanished into The Charlton Triangle.....
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,451
    Another bit of my childhood gone, Runouts on the ferry, Crackling from the chippy, Lagertop in the Bugle, Football for Anchor Athletic and Springcourt, bunking in at the laundry by the Sam Bartram entrance.

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