Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Shops you no longer see

1679111224

Comments

  • My mother is married to the man that ran Bexley model centre. They retired to Sussex about 20 years ago.
  • Dicky Dirts - think it was in an old building in Camberwell. Sold denims in the mid-late 1970s. Anyone remember or was it all a dream?

  • The sports shop just up from where Draughts (The Chequers) public house is situated in Eltham.
    Not the 90s incarnation which was a leisurewear/clothing store, but the 70s maybe early 80s one which was a proper sports shop.
    Fantastic gear, a dream shop for a sport mad kid.
    Only wish I could remember the name of it...... (Warrens?)

    I liked the earlier mention for Eltham Models.
    Still the finest model/hobby shop I've seen; they used to have the Scalextric circuit running all round the shop. 

  • Station Hotel in Welling which was mentioned earlier in thread has had planning approved for a Tesco Extra and building has been gutted ready for refurb.
    Criminal when I think back to the hazy hedonistic nights that I had the fortune to enjoy back in the 70/80s.
  • The sports shop just up from where Draughts (The Chequers) public house is situated in Eltham.
    Not the 90s incarnation which was a leisurewear/clothing store, but the 70s maybe early 80s one which was a proper sports shop.

    Fantastic gear, a dream shop for a sport mad kid.

    Only wish I could remember the name of it...... (Warrens?)



    I liked the earlier mention for Eltham Models.

    Still the finest model/hobby shop I've seen; they used to have the Scalextric circuit running all round the shop. 


    I know the Sports shop, can't remember the name though - got some Gola's and Adidas Kick out of there. Just along from 'Pat's Textiles'.
  • Club Sports Woolwich
    Fantos Deptford
  • Pollards
    Sportspages (Charing Cross Road)
    The Computer Bookshop (Sicilian Avenue)
    Mace

    C&A...
  • Blimey did you have Pollards too then?  I was going to mention them, but thought they were local to Essex.
  • Skoobs, Sicilian Ave (but I think they're somewhere else now).
  • Nationwide Building society - at least if you're living in most of the SE postcodes
    (oh, they've kept the titchy branch in Eltham open, whoopdedoo!)
    Gits.
  • Sponsored links:


  • Are Pubs shops? If yes:

    The Castle, Kings Arms, White Hart, Man of Kent - all Eltham High Street

  • 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?
  • Are Pubs shops? If yes:

    The Castle, Kings Arms, White Hart, Man of Kent - all Eltham High Street


    Not forgetting The Carpenters Arms, The Crossways and The Yorkshire Grey in Eltham too. There was also a little wine bar called C&A.

    Yes m_  l _c it was called Warrens. Poor bloke in there who had a badly disfigured bottom lip.

    Ladbrookes sports shops on corner of Passy Place was also a good sports shop when it first opened. The late Bobby Moore did the opening honours.

    Derek's Records, Harlequin Records, Ackermans Bakers, Caters, Mr K, C&A, Hubble Bubble Toyland, Gentrys, Woodruffs, D/E/R, Furlongs, Midland, TSB, The Woolwich, Rumbelows, Granada, Maid Marrion, Timothy Whites, Underwoods,Hepworths, John Collier, Dunn & Co, Littlewoods......

  • Dewhursts butchers shops

    Express dairy shops
  • edited June 2011
    Dewhursts butchers shops

    Express Dairy shops
  • There was a toy shop in the late 60's in Lakedale Road called Ali Barbers, next to the Fire Station. My Dad used to take me there after Saturday morning swim at Plumstead baths.
  • Police stations.............I remember every town used to had one. Can't have been too popular.
  • Fifty Shilling Tailors, we lived over one in Kingsbury High Road.
  • There was a toy shop in the late 60's in Lakedale Road called Ali Barbers, next to the Fire Station. My Dad used to take me there after Saturday morning swim at Plumstead baths.
    Wasn't it on the corner of tewson? used go in there to get fireworks when we were kids.
  • Glad i brought this thread back, some quality stuff

  • Sponsored links:


  • the golden egg, woolwich
    gentry's, welling
    bejams
    laskeys and rumbelows
    The Golden Egg, blimey yes, I remember that one... (Check the very first post of the thread mate - LOL)
  • Nat West bank in Bexley High St - now the Bar Lorca!
  • There was a toy shop in the late 60's in Lakedale Road called Ali Barbers, next to the Fire Station. My Dad used to take me there after Saturday morning swim at Plumstead baths.
    Wasn't it on the corner of tewson? used go in there to get fireworks when we were kids.

    Inbetween Tewson and the Fire Station, I thought it was next to the fire station, pretty sure it was. My Dad lived in Tewson Road as a boy, number 14 just near Smiths corner shop.

    Remember the news paper seller outside the Volunter pub? A dwarf with lumps on his head. Robert Ayres the bakers was next to the pub.

  • 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 ?
  • There was a toy shop in the late 60's in Lakedale Road called Ali Barbers, next to the Fire Station. My Dad used to take me there after Saturday morning swim at Plumstead baths.
    Wasn't it on the corner of tewson? used go in there to get fireworks when we were kids.

    Inbetween Tewson and the Fire Station, I thought it was next to the fire station, pretty sure it was. My Dad lived in Tewson Road as a boy, number 14 just near Smiths corner shop.

    Remember the news paper seller outside the Volunter pub? A dwarf with lumps on his head. Robert Ayres the bakers was next to the pub.

    Thinking about it, I think the shop on the corner of Lakedale & Tewson was called Dingles.
  • Lillywhites. It might as well have dissapeared, it's just another chav Sports Direct now.
  • I live in Surrey now so am not sure if it is still there, but is Nuxley Toys in Bexleyheath still around?

    That shop was piled top to bottom with toys, and I remember the bins in the middle that had the pocket money toys (guns etc) that I always used to raid.

  • 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?
  • murrays meat market in woolwich, dad would march us down there on a saturday when they would be getting rid of everything,

    woolwich market, folkestone sunday market, the guys who would have a massive trailler with everything you could imagine for sale, would always have a microphone round his neck doing the sales guff, in argos these retail for 20 quid, im not asking 20 im not asking 15, 10 quid and its yours, me mum would then hold up her tenner and one of his runners would come over take the money and give you the product, normally some kind of new wonder siscors or non stick saucepans, as a kid always remember the having the most amazing looking toys normally big jeeps or flashy robots but never watched long enough to see if he actually sold them.

  • 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.
Sign In or Register to comment.

Roland Out Forever!