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  • tom_k
    tom_k Posts: 1,207
    Just met a German girl who has her own collection at the infamous C and A. It's a Dutch company that still thrives in most of Europe
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    Thanks Chirpy. Memories of setting off for the seaside full of expectation, long before the main roads were built.

    Tom-k, see the link in Henry's post for full details of the company we dont like to name.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    What was the name of the scrapyard with the orange (MG?) car on a pole out past Dartford on the old A2?

    Was it Cars&Autos, or some abbreviation like that?
    That was on the old A20 (now B2173), still there I think.
    ZB's. It's still there as are the remians of the MG. Some little scroats set fire to it a few years ago.
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    ZB's then, thanks Dave. Knew it was a catchy two letter acronym, just not C&A as I thought.
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    used to be a toy shop in woolwich, a couple of doors away from where natwest is now in powis street, does anyone remember what it was called?
    Was it something like, Youngsters ?
    i was to busy looking at toys to notice the shop name! read on another site it might have been called branstons.
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    the cinema by woolwich ferry roundabout. used to go every week. remember when they opened the second screen and had a showing of back to the future 3 before it went nationwide - special guest was jimmy greaves!
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892

    C & A

     

  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Cheesemans in Lewisham. Always remember that Proustian smell of plastic in the toy department where I'd look longingly at the new Action Man range.
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    Beaties

    Happy Shopper
  • Crusty54
    Crusty54 Posts: 3,232
    edited June 2011
    The Wimpy in Eltham is still there (nearly opposite Boots) - owned by the same people as Woolwich. Welling good value too.

    Ragitty Anns in Blackheath was an amazing place. Toys downstairs and sports upstairs. Big crush on the dark haired female who worked there. Red faced when asking for a box and she suggesting I might need a support. 

    Cuffs and Alders
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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,848
    Jim's Barber Shop in Hither Green.
    Swaddlings toy shop in Catford/Rushey Green.
    Studio 6&7 cinema
    ABC Cinemas
    The Tigers Head, Green Man, Garden Gate, Teasel, Chinbrook, King Alfred boozers all in the Bellingham/Downham/Grove Park area.

    And can I be the first/last to mention ................ C&A
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,848
    Ratners
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    Lewisham Safeway.
    And the Roebuck and Plough
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    'Studio 6&7 cinema'

    Was that the one that used to be opposite the Lewisham Odeon which showed films starring Mary Millington?
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,848
    'Studio 6&7 cinema'

    Was that the one that used to be opposite the Lewisham Odeon which showed films starring Mary Millington?
    That's the one - though I dunno about the Mary Millington bit. I saw The Swarm in there, if that helps?
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
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  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    Tiny cinemas with overlapping sound. Remember seeing Airplane there but clearly hearing the neighbouring film
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,848
    Is it just me or does anyone else imagine adamtheaddick to be some geek sitting there all day looking through his world record breaking picture collection?
    ;o)'
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    I saw The Muppet Movie in there, but I think the more, ahem, grown-up films would be on in the evening.
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,848
    That's my boy!
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    An interesting site here about Lewisham's lost cinemas, which superimposes vintage pics of the cinemas into the location as it looks today:

    http://brockleyjackfilmclub.co.uk/lewishams-lost-cinemas/
  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    Great site - thanks Hawks
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,848
    That website's brilliant hawksmoor. Saw Star Wars in the Lewisham Odeon. Was massive.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    A mate at work just told me he went to see Emmanuel at Studio 6 & 7. Bit more upmarket than Mary Millington.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,848
    over to you adam.
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    I remember I saw Star Wars and Rocky at Lewisham Odeon. And Madness, supported by The Go-Gos, who got a particularly hard time from the Skins in the audience.
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    image
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,848
    Good lad!
    ;o)
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    Wasn't it The Who that played the last concert at Lewisham Odeon before it got knocked down?

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