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Clark’s in the high st, still there?
Mum used to take me in there to have my feet measured and then if I’d been a good lad (rarely) take me across the road to Freeman Hardy & Willis for a pair if not back home to Bowes in Charlton Village. Always got me the next size up, I think the idea was I didn’t outgrow them.
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Harry Fentons now Boots I believe, where you could take a short cut through downstairs to the station.0
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What was the men's shop next to the Woolwich Equitable called, Fosters? Bought my sheepskin in there circa 1970.
Edit; or was that Fentons?4 -
Picture foundGlassHalfFull said:
Not really the place for this, but in all the affection for the former WEBS head office some further information is appropriate. Did you know that the fashion store at the junction of Powis Street and Barnard Close (the side opposite Clarks) is the former former WEBS head office, in service as such between 1895 and 1935? I may be able to dig out a picture.
and an earlier picture ....
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@Covered End , not that I know of. Anyways me and you aren't that far apart age wise so it would have had to be a bit of a miracle 😉.Covered End said:
A mate at school, Colin (Harley) Foster lived in Tewson Road.RedChaser said:
Tewson Road, my daughter was born in St Nicks which never closed until 1984. A medical centre and residential properties replaced it 😉.Return of the SE7 said:
I used to live opposite St. NicksSomervilleAddick said:What is this , Woolwich Addicks or SE18 Addicks? I’m a Plumstead Addick by birth (another one for St. Nicks).
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I was at the poly from 68-75.Return of the SE7 said:
Used to use it about then, left the Poly in 71.bobmunro said:Vincenzo said:
It is quite remarkable. Almost apartheid, the way Woolwich Road divides the two.Karim_myBagheri said:Woolwich is an odd place. Went there last year to see the boat before it got decommissioned (which I know is odd in itself but we are anoraks) anyway... The bit that really surprised me is the wrong side of the tracks (in Woolwich's case the road) where in the side close to the river all very nice, youngs? Pubs and flats for yuppies. So very seperate from the other side which has the woolwich I know, it's a bit rough but more me I guess. Never seen such an obvious divide showing gentrification. Surely something some kid at University could do a thesis on, the changing landscape of London.
The Arsenal site has always been separate, of course, but not because of money, unlike now.
It does make me hanker after a wrong side of the tracks Woolwich pub crawl though.That would be fun, I'm sure.
It's probably the thick end of 30 years, maybe more, since I've drunk (been drunk) in Woolwich and I would like to see how many of my old haunts have changed or no longer there.
I fondly remember the Union Tavern off the back of Macbean Street back in the early/mid70s - it was my local when I was at school!
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not really, but i have vague memories of it being nearer the lower road end of the centre of woolwich - a small shop in a row of othedr small shops - not that dissimilar to james terry in eltham - about all i can remembermendonca said:
Ha, do you remember the name or location of the shop?DOUCHER said:Never lived in Woolwich but remember stumbling upon an old mans type of clothes shop there on the early eighties - full of gabbicci cardigans dirt cheap - they had no idea they were in fashion - was swede and ironmongerymongous - also took me hours to work out the one way system - kept going round in circles on the 1610 -
Woolwich Poly 68-73, 1P 2P 3B 4B 5Bbobmunro said:
I was at the poly from 68-75.Return of the SE7 said:
Used to use it about then, left the Poly in 71.bobmunro said:Vincenzo said:
It is quite remarkable. Almost apartheid, the way Woolwich Road divides the two.Karim_myBagheri said:Woolwich is an odd place. Went there last year to see the boat before it got decommissioned (which I know is odd in itself but we are anoraks) anyway... The bit that really surprised me is the wrong side of the tracks (in Woolwich's case the road) where in the side close to the river all very nice, youngs? Pubs and flats for yuppies. So very seperate from the other side which has the woolwich I know, it's a bit rough but more me I guess. Never seen such an obvious divide showing gentrification. Surely something some kid at University could do a thesis on, the changing landscape of London.
The Arsenal site has always been separate, of course, but not because of money, unlike now.
It does make me hanker after a wrong side of the tracks Woolwich pub crawl though.That would be fun, I'm sure.
It's probably the thick end of 30 years, maybe more, since I've drunk (been drunk) in Woolwich and I would like to see how many of my old haunts have changed or no longer there.
I fondly remember the Union Tavern off the back of Macbean Street back in the early/mid70s - it was my local when I was at school!
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usetobunkin said:
Woolwich Poly 68-73, 1P 2P 3B 4B 5Bbobmunro said:
I was at the poly from 68-75.Return of the SE7 said:
Used to use it about then, left the Poly in 71.bobmunro said:Vincenzo said:
It is quite remarkable. Almost apartheid, the way Woolwich Road divides the two.Karim_myBagheri said:Woolwich is an odd place. Went there last year to see the boat before it got decommissioned (which I know is odd in itself but we are anoraks) anyway... The bit that really surprised me is the wrong side of the tracks (in Woolwich's case the road) where in the side close to the river all very nice, youngs? Pubs and flats for yuppies. So very seperate from the other side which has the woolwich I know, it's a bit rough but more me I guess. Never seen such an obvious divide showing gentrification. Surely something some kid at University could do a thesis on, the changing landscape of London.
The Arsenal site has always been separate, of course, but not because of money, unlike now.
It does make me hanker after a wrong side of the tracks Woolwich pub crawl though.That would be fun, I'm sure.
It's probably the thick end of 30 years, maybe more, since I've drunk (been drunk) in Woolwich and I would like to see how many of my old haunts have changed or no longer there.
I fondly remember the Union Tavern off the back of Macbean Street back in the early/mid70s - it was my local when I was at school!
In my year then 1W 2W 3A 4A 5A L6 U6Stevenson House!0 -
Facing what is now M&S. I’m sure it’s where Charlton skins got our tonic mohair suits in the late 60s.DOUCHER said:
not really, but i have vague memories of it being nearer the lower road end of the centre of woolwich - a small shop in a row of othedr small shops - not that dissimilar to james terry in eltham - about all i can remembermendonca said:
Ha, do you remember the name or location of the shop?DOUCHER said:Never lived in Woolwich but remember stumbling upon an old mans type of clothes shop there on the early eighties - full of gabbicci cardigans dirt cheap - they had no idea they were in fashion - was swede and ironmongerymongous - also took me hours to work out the one way system - kept going round in circles on the 1610 - Sponsored links:
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Remember Fosters clothes shop in Woolwich0
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Yes - in Greens End. I remember window shopping and drooling over some of the clothes that I couldn't afford!i_b_b_o_r_g said:Remember Fosters clothes shop in Woolwich
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I was at the poly too 66- 70 . Great little school back then.0
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I can hear my brother saying it as a kid now "Got it from Fosters"bobmunro said:
Yes - in Greens End. I remember window shopping and drooling over some of the clothes that I couldn't afford!i_b_b_o_r_g said:Remember Fosters clothes shop in Woolwich0 -
Fosters now TK Max, building clad in glass -
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That's not where I'm remembering Fosters. The shop I recall was in Greens End between the Equitable Building and the Elephant & Castle.
Just checked Google Maps and the entrance to the DLR looks like the location - bang opposite the end of Powis Street.
Your pic seems to be the junction of Powis Street and Hare Street - that TK Max used to be a brilliant record shop.
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Maybe that was Burtons in the photo I shared then?1
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There was a small traditional mens outfitters in Hare Street that suddenly found it stocked must-have mods gear like silk handkerchieves (for the mohair suit), fred perry polo shirts, sky blue golfing chinos and I recall I bought a pair of tailored strides that looked like mohair. Would have been just past where Primark is now. Our mohair suits only came from one of the Rushey Green tailors opposite the Savoy Rooms, they would make up a suit from cloth you bought from the West End cheaper than anywhere else.Baldybonce said:
Facing what is now M&S. I’m sure it’s where Charlton skins got our tonic mohair suits in the late 60s.DOUCHER said:
not really, but i have vague memories of it being nearer the lower road end of the centre of woolwich - a small shop in a row of othedr small shops - not that dissimilar to james terry in eltham - about all i can remembermendonca said:
Ha, do you remember the name or location of the shop?DOUCHER said:Never lived in Woolwich but remember stumbling upon an old mans type of clothes shop there on the early eighties - full of gabbicci cardigans dirt cheap - they had no idea they were in fashion - was swede and ironmongerymongous - also took me hours to work out the one way system - kept going round in circles on the 1610 -
Burtonsi_b_b_o_r_g said:Maybe that was Burtons in the photo I shared then?1 -
Coulda swore there was a Fosters down that end, mid to late 80's an all? Could well be wrong though...Starinnaddick said:
Burtonsi_b_b_o_r_g said:Maybe that was Burtons in the photo I shared then?1 - Sponsored links:
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I thought there was as well.0
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Vague recollection that Fosters may've moved in when Burtons closed?Charlton_Stu said:I thought there was as well.0 -
i_b_b_o_r_g said:
Vague recollection that Fosters may've moved in when Burtons closed?Charlton_Stu said:I thought there was as well.
Burtons was on the opposite corner of Hare Street/Powis Street to where TK Max is in that photo.If it was in the 80s then Fosters may well have moved to the old Burtons store from Greens End - but it was definitely where the DLR entrance is now back in the 60s/70s.
I left the area in 1985.
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I remember Fosters being in the high st opposite that side turning down the side of M&S.1
