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  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,408
    Wet fish shops (Mac Fisheries) Bike shop (Ron Argents)The Job Centre SIDCUP what not a shop.Win Ons chinese restaurant,Furlongs estates,all in Sidcup when i was a kid.Do not get me started on the local sweet shops that have all gone.Old potters shop next door to fire station in Sidcup.Any ironmongers shops.The list goes on.
  • Morts-Genius
    Morts-Genius Posts: 967
    book shop welling!
    Tandy's electical stores
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,420
    Manzies ?
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]Manzies ?

    Menzies ..... swallowed up by WH Smith.

    Like Timothy Whites - bought by Boots.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Is Mings still around in Welling?

    (Forgive me but I've been living in Dorset for 23 years)
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    [cite]Posted By: Six-a-bag-of-nuts[/cite]Is Mings still around in Welling?

    (Forgive me but I've been living in Dorset for 23 years)

    What, the Chinese restaurant....?

    And Blue Heaven?
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Six-a-bag-of-nuts[/cite]Is Mings still around in Welling?

    (Forgive me but I've been living in Dorset for 23 years)

    What, the Chinese restaurant....?

    Yes, they used to have some nightclub thing going on above it.
    Used to pile down there after the pubs kicked out back in the 70's.
    Blue Heaven doesn't ring any bells, but then my memory is a bit shot now.
  • Boysie
    Boysie Posts: 701
    Nicholls Hi-Fi in Lee Green.

    Bought my first 7" single in there.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,420
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]Manzies ?

    Menzies ..... swallowed up by WH Smith.

    Like Timothy Whites - bought by Boots.

    Lol,
    How long have WH Smith done "Pie & Mash"
    Thats why I said "Manzies" (sp) and not "Menzies" ; )
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,981
    C&A
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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Martins newsagents
    Green Shield Stamp Shops
    Wade & Pollards
    Mace
    KD
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,955
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]Manzies ?

    Menzies ..... swallowed up by WH Smith.

    Like Timothy Whites - bought by Boots.

    Lol,
    How long have WH Smith done "Pie & Mash"
    Thats why I said "Manzies" (sp) and not "Menzies" ; )

    Sorry TCE, got that wring, didn't I? lol ..... was that the pie shop in Greenwich?
    There was a jellied eels shop in Woolwich I think, still there in the early 70s.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,420
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Oggy Red[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: T.C.E[/cite]Manzies ?

    Menzies ..... swallowed up by WH Smith.

    Like Timothy Whites - bought by Boots.

    Lol,
    How long have WH Smith done "Pie & Mash"
    Thats why I said "Manzies" (sp) and not "Menzies" ; )

    Sorry TCE, got that wring, didn't I? lol ..... was that the pie shop in Greenwich?
    There was a jellied eels shop in Woolwich I think, still there in the early 70s.
    The one in woolwich is still there, but no longer Manzies at least not in the sense I remember the food last time I ate in there was horrible.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Thanks for the memories peeps, some I have never heard of, others totally forgotten and others I thought were local that turned out to be national - Mac Fisheries being one example of that.

    I finally started a thread that lasted more than three comments...
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    [quote][cite]Posted By: Algarveaddick[/cite]Thanks for the memories peeps, some I have never heard of, others totally forgotten and others I thought were local that turned out to be national - Mac Fisheries being one example of that.

    I finally started a thread that lasted more than three comments...[/quote]

    Yeah, great thread.
  • Valley_floyd_red
    Valley_floyd_red Posts: 3,194
    Has anyone mentioned spud-u-like? Fads?
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,001
    This one still has a website, surprised no one has mentioned it.
  • Valley_floyd_red
    Valley_floyd_red Posts: 3,194
    edited February 2010
    C and A are still going in Europe, or were, at least in Germany where you can still find their shops on the high street.
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,762
    In Bexleyheath I used to love going to Hides and Jennings as a child. There was also a fish shop that had a tank of live eels.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    [cite]Posted By: Six-a-bag-of-nuts[/cite]Is Mings still around in Welling?

    (Forgive me but I've been living in Dorset for 23 years)

    Yes it is - went there for our Xmas 'do' a couple of months ago.
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  • LoOkOuT
    LoOkOuT Posts: 10,857
    What was that one we used to go to... something like "d and b" or "b and h".... errrrr, it's on the tip of my tongue! You don't see those around anymore, nor hear much about them.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,969
    Army and Navy? No, that's not right
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    edited February 2010
    'Mitchell's of Erith' department store. Had one of those contraptions that the assistant put your money into, pulled a handle and it whizzed across the ceiling on a wire to the cashier's office, and she sent your change back.

    Visionhire

    Schieo's (spelling?) Motorcycles, Dartford (just off the old A2)

    Discland, Gravesend

    Notton's the Tailors, Gravesend Clock Tower.

    And what was the name of that American style cafe in Bexleyheath Broadway that did 'knickerbocker glories'

    Express Dairies' restaurant in Beresford Square

    AMC Motorcycles, Plumstead

    Groome's the Bakers,

    And to end on a sporting note: Charlton, Catford, New Cross and White City greyhound tracks
  • davy
    davy Posts: 420
    Jennys hamburgers
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    Huckleberry's and Trumps burger joints.
  • davy
    davy Posts: 420
    Did they have eggs in the Trumps burgers?
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,851
    All Saves in Welling - my Gran used to buy all our Xmas presents there...

    The Pie and Mash shop in Greenwich (Godard's, I think). We always used to order their Cornish Pasties in boxes of 30 to bring home and freeze.
  • Penfolds Perm
    Penfolds Perm Posts: 550
    [cite]Posted By: Covered End[/cite]
    [cite aria-level=0 aria-posinset=0 aria-setsize=0]Posted By: Six-a-bag-of-nuts[/cite]Is Mings still around in Welling?

    (Forgive me but I've been living in Dorset for 23 years)

    Yes it is - went there for our Xmas 'do' a couple of months ago.

    I'm pretty sure that years ago Mings used to be called Hungs House or it could be a middle aged memory mix up.
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,851
    The Gracelands Palace on the Old Kent Road, Home of the Chinese Singing Elvis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,608
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