Shops you no longer see

Lewis Coaches

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

book shop welling!
Tandy's electical stores

T_C_E

Manzies ?

Oggy Red

[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

Is Mings still around in Welling?

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

Oggy Red

[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

[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

Nicholls Hi-Fi in Lee Green.

Bought my first 7" single in there.

T_C_E

[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

C&A

Stig

Martins newsagents
Green Shield Stamp Shops
Wade & Pollards
Mace
KD

Oggy Red

[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

[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

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

[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

Has anyone mentioned spud-u-like? Fads?

BDL

This one still has a website, surprised no one has mentioned it.

Valley_floyd_red

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

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

[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.

LoOkOuT

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

Army and Navy? No, that's not right

March51

'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

Jennys hamburgers

Off_it

Huckleberry's and Trumps burger joints.

davy

Did they have eggs in the Trumps burgers?

Stuart_the_Red

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

[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

The Gracelands Palace on the Old Kent Road, Home of the Chinese Singing Elvis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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