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.
[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.
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.
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.
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][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]
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.
'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
Benjy's sandwich shops that used to be on every street in the West End and City.
They went bust and disappeared several years ago, but for some complicated reason (to do with its franchising policy or store leases or something) there are actually TWO of them left, one near Monument and one near Victoria. Hunt them out sometime if you fancy a blast from the past.
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Tandy's electical stores
Menzies ..... swallowed up by WH Smith.
Like Timothy Whites - bought by Boots.
(Forgive me but I've been living in Dorset for 23 years)
What, the Chinese restaurant....?
And Blue Heaven?
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.
Bought my first 7" single in there.
Lol,
How long have WH Smith done "Pie & Mash"
Thats why I said "Manzies" (sp) and not "Menzies" ; )
Green Shield Stamp Shops
Wade & Pollards
Mace
KD
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.
I finally started a thread that lasted more than three comments...
I finally started a thread that lasted more than three comments...[/quote]
Yeah, great thread.
Yes it is - went there for our Xmas 'do' a couple of months ago.
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
They went bust and disappeared several years ago, but for some complicated reason (to do with its franchising policy or store leases or something) there are actually TWO of them left, one near Monument and one near Victoria. Hunt them out sometime if you fancy a blast from the past.
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.
I'm pretty sure that years ago Mings used to be called Hungs House or it could be a middle aged memory mix up.