Henderson's Newsagents, at the end of Baldwyn's Park on the road to Bexley from Dartford. Used to spend my pocket money on matchbox cars there when I was weeny. Remember dropping a brown Jag in the road on the way home and it getting crushed flat before I could retrieve it.
I didn't bloody go. Saw them a number of years ago supported by Joe Strummer! If only we knew Strummer and Entwistle were not long for this world. Still takes me aback that Strummer's dead.
not sure if done before, epax in charlton. a front runner of iceland when i was a kid, was in the industrial estate behind where the new shops are, everything in chest freezers and it had the grumpiest old git with white balding hair on the checkout, didnt have carrier bags so you had to use empty cardboxes they would leave out.
omni's in woolwich, opposite where cash converters is now, fast food place, nice food and did awasome ice cream knickerbokerglorys, only draw back was the toilets, christ was like walking through a scene in a freedy krugger film, stairs had holse in, wall papaer peeling of the walls and the toilet itself made the one from trainspotting look clean!! used to beg my sister to come with me if i needed to go as was to scared to go alone.
Massive Strummer fan too Hawks. Dont suppose you have a copy of Earthquake Weather by any chance?
You dont see many C&A's about nowadays.
I haven't got a copy of that, I'm afraid, mate. It's expensive when you can find it. There's only two used CDs of it on Amazon starting at £18. I've got the three Mescaleros albums. Saw them for the first time at the Brixton Academy after going to see us get beat 1-0 against Southampton at our first game at St Mary's.
The Book & Magazine Exchange over the road from Ladywell Baths. Comics and Mills & Boon out the front, with more, ahem, adult-oriented magazines out the back.
The hole in the wall tobacconist in Sidcup High Street, near where the cinema was. Harry Fenton Menswear shops Candy's sweet shop in Lion Road Bexleyheath and the fish and chip shop in the same road That place in Bromley that sold fresh coffee beans and tea. You could smell the coffee 100 yards away Soul City records in Monmouth Street, Covent Garden
That's correct Hawksmoor. I got to know Dave quite well back then. As you say a great man who was responsible for breaking Motown in the UK and coined the terms "Northern Soul" and "Deep Soul" And he always had time for you whether to talk about music or life generally. Died far too young. Top bloke.
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Dont suppose you have a copy of Earthquake Weather by any chance?
You dont see many C&A's about nowadays.
not sure if done before, epax in charlton. a front runner of iceland when i was a kid, was in the industrial estate behind where the new shops are, everything in chest freezers and it had the grumpiest old git with white balding hair on the checkout, didnt have carrier bags so you had to use empty cardboxes they would leave out.
omni's in woolwich, opposite where cash converters is now, fast food place, nice food and did awasome ice cream knickerbokerglorys, only draw back was the toilets, christ was like walking through a scene in a freedy krugger film, stairs had holse in, wall papaer peeling of the walls and the toilet itself made the one from trainspotting look clean!! used to beg my sister to come with me if i needed to go as was to scared to go alone.
Not shops? Ha, they had a newspaper, fags and sweets kiosk.
i saw Debie does Dallas somewhere
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Harry Fenton Menswear shops
Candy's sweet shop in Lion Road Bexleyheath and the fish and chip shop in the same road
That place in Bromley that sold fresh coffee beans and tea. You could smell the coffee 100 yards away
Soul City records in Monmouth Street, Covent Garden
Which started in Deptford High Street. Run, of course, by the late great Dave Godin.