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  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    [cite]Posted By: Penfolds Perm[/cite]MAYNES... It was like an indoor market on Welling corner where all the staff used to wear fingerless woollen gloves.

    I remember Maynes in Welling ..... half the store was set up on the pavement outside and under big blinds.rolled out over them.

    Ajax Records (where I bought my first record) next to the Granada cinema (where I had my first back row snog) on Bellegrove Road.

    Arthur Cooper off-licence (where I bought mt first under age alcohol).

    David Greig's in Eltham High Street (where my Nan used to buy ham on the bone, and delicious blackcurrant jam).

    RACS Royal Arsenal Co-op

    The Woolwich Equitable where I had my first job.

    Watneys and Ind Coope pubs (no loss, mind you).

    Oh, not forgetting C & A in Lewisham where I bought my Crombie coat in 1971. :o)
  • Blinkant
    Blinkant Posts: 598
    Loads of Wimpy's around. Woolwich has one and the one in Dartford has just been done up.

    Anyone remember Starburger?
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    www.dennisthebutcher.co.uk now relocated to Bexley Park where the old mental hospital used to be.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,980
    [cite]Posted By: Blinkant[/cite]Anyone remember Starburger?

    Swear there was one in Woolwich...or was that Jenny Burger?
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    the Pen Shop, Church Road, Bexleyheath
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    What about the little watch repairers by New Eltham station? He used to work all hours.
  • RedZed333
    RedZed333 Posts: 3,103
    Mental hospitals...
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    FADS


    Maltese Maria -- well she had a "shop" sorta soho way .
  • Blinkant
    Blinkant Posts: 598
    [quote][cite]Posted By: ValleyGary[/cite][quote][cite]Posted By: Blinkant[/cite]Anyone remember Starburger?[/quote]

    Swear there was one in Woolwich...or was that Jenny Burger?[/quote]

    There was a Jenny Burger near the Market (where the DLR is now)

    and the Starburger was down near the Waterfront.

    I think there is one in Plumsted still but i'ts called StarBar now
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    Isn't it nice to hear the old people going on about the old day, what's changed, all the old shops and that.

    Probably not as scary for them as thinking about the modern world with computers and space travel and all that.
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  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Old Bill shop bottom of Shooters Hill
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    Spud U Like

    New Cross Building Society

    Joe Lyons tea shops
  • blackheathaddick
    blackheathaddick Posts: 1,404
    Kennedy's are definetly no more. The best sausages around. Apparently he didnt want anyone ruining the recipe so refused to pass it down.

    However there's a new company that have started and they're called Ken and Eddies and apparently they've somehow managed to get hold of the recipe.
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    [cite]Posted By: Goonerhater[/cite]Old Bill shop bottom of Shooters Hill

    At Locksbottom where the Orpington road joined the A21, the police station had a pub either side.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    that tiny tobacconist near the old cinema in Sidcup High Street.
  • RedZed333
    RedZed333 Posts: 3,103
    ABC pictures..
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    The Gaumont cinema on Eltham Hill ....... talking of which, does anybody rememember the poster boards advertising the next film with the cinema's name embossed at the top of the frame, placed on fences and walls in random locations?
  • tom_k
    tom_k Posts: 1,207
    The catford gun company
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Penge Angling shop in Eltham
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,089
    Nandos, Costa Coffee and Starbucks, never see any of them in British high streets.

    For those claiming that butchers have gone, head to Rye Lane or Electric Avenue and bring a nose peg.
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  • Ledge
    Ledge Posts: 7,179
    woolworths :-)
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    [cite]Posted By: Ledge[/cite]woolworths :-)

    You forgot C & A
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,222
    Beano's

    Cheapo Cheapo's
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,980
    No a shop, but was in the Red Barn last week and the sweet bloke came in. Havent seen one of those in a pub for yonks!
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    [cite]Posted By: ValleyGary[/cite]and the sweet bloke came in.

    Must have been a Pink Lion.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,980
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: ValleyGary[/cite]and the sweet bloke came in.

    Must have been a Pink Lion.

    I was gonna call him the candy man!
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    Wasn't there a fast food chain called huckleberries in lewisham?
    also, not a shop but anyone remember the bloke who used to ride round eltham (and probably other areas) on a motorbike selling toffee-apples from the side car?
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,608
    Jolly Green Giant Toy Shop on Bugsby Way. any1 remember that? going back about 15-20 years! would be where river island, h&m and outfit are now!
  • nolly
    nolly Posts: 12,122
    was it a wendies after huckleberrys?
  • Greenster
    Greenster Posts: 190
    Beejams (sp) frozen food shop -used to one in dartford

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