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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Who rattled your cage
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    ricky_otto said:

    RedChaser said:

    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    Woolwich weren't ever a posh place, but it always use to be full of good people.

    What even as good as Grove Park mate? :wink:
    Please don't start him off......
    I'm looking for a promotion, little bit of brown nosing don't hurt :wink: .
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    RedChaser said:

    ricky_otto said:

    RedChaser said:

    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    Woolwich weren't ever a posh place, but it always use to be full of good people.

    What even as good as Grove Park mate? :wink:
    Please don't start him off......
    I'm looking for a promotion, little bit of brown nosing don't hurt :wink: .
    Personally I think it's time you were given full control.
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    Baldybonce said:

    As a slight aside......
    i went in Tkmaxx earlier and it seems to be staffed by Eastern European porn babes. I bought a pair of size 15 trainers just so i can take them back tomorrow.

    TK Maxx in Woolwich? (asking for a friend)
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    Woolwich,

    General Gordon Square
    First McDonalds the UK ( I was there first day)
    Betting shop next to the station, where you push a pencil written carbon copy slip through the hatch for your 112 x1p reversed forecast doubles through the card at Wembley or Watford or Harringay !
    Covered Market, shoe shop !
    Record shop on square sold, import Jazz Funk 45,s from the USA
    3 Cinemas

    feel free to add your own
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Brendan_O_Connell said:

    Baldybonce said:

    As a slight aside......
    i went in Tkmaxx earlier and it seems to be staffed by Eastern European porn babes. I bought a pair of size 15 trainers just so i can take them back tomorrow.

    TK Maxx in Woolwich? (asking for a friend)
    yep.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    Shakespeare pub getting in to the function room for gigs under age.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    RaplhMilne said:

    Woolwich,

    General Gordon Square
    First McDonalds the UK ( I was there first day)
    Betting shop next to the station, where you push a pencil written carbon copy slip through the hatch for your 112 x1p reversed forecast doubles through the card at Wembley or Watford or Harringay !
    Covered Market, shoe shop !
    Record shop on square sold, import Jazz Funk 45,s from the USA
    3 Cinemas

    feel free to add your own

    Covered market for two tone tonic suits, brogues, DMs etc for Charlton skins, 69ish.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    edited November 2016
    Baldybonce said:

    RaplhMilne said:

    Woolwich,

    General Gordon Square
    First McDonalds the UK ( I was there first day)
    Betting shop next to the station, where you push a pencil written carbon copy slip through the hatch for your 112 x1p reversed forecast doubles through the card at Wembley or Watford or Harringay !
    Covered Market, shoe shop !
    Record shop on square sold, import Jazz Funk 45,s from the USA
    3 Cinemas

    feel free to add your own

    Covered market for two tone tonic suits, brogues, DMs etc for Charlton skins, 69ish.
    A good cheaper alternative to Squires in Brewer St, West End :wink:
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Leuth said:

    A great place for fruit beer in recovered cinema seats, Ethiopian food and hipster coffee ;)

    The Ethiopians have food now?
    Go Geldof.
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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    *speechless*
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    RaplhMilne said:

    Woolwich,

    General Gordon Square
    First McDonalds the UK ( I was there first day)
    Betting shop next to the station, where you push a pencil written carbon copy slip through the hatch for your 112 x1p reversed forecast doubles through the card at Wembley or Watford or Harringay !
    Covered Market, shoe shop !
    Record shop on square sold, import Jazz Funk 45,s from the USA
    3 Cinemas

    feel free to add your own

    Actually 5 Cinemas, young man. :wink:
    (So my Mum told me)

  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,633
    RaplhMilne said:

    Woolwich,

    General Gordon Square
    First McDonalds the UK ( I was there first day)
    Betting shop next to the station, where you push a pencil written carbon copy slip through the hatch for your 112 x1p reversed forecast doubles through the card at Wembley or Watford or Harringay !
    Covered Market, shoe shop !
    Record shop on square sold, import Jazz Funk 45,s from the USA
    3 Cinemas

    feel free to add your own

    I was there on the first day, got vouchers from Ronald at the Saturday morning pictures at the ABC.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Remember the massive aquarium in the Woolwich Equitable
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Baldybonce said:

    As a slight aside......
    i went in Tkmaxx earlier and it seems to be staffed by Eastern European porn babes. I bought a pair of size 15 trainers just so i can take them back tomorrow.

    Can you tell me what time they open in the morning please?
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,648
    Johnnysummers5 said:

    Baldybonce said:

    As a slight aside......
    i went in Tkmaxx earlier and it seems to be staffed by Eastern European porn babes. I bought a pair of size 15 trainers just so i can take them back tomorrow.

    Can you tell me what time they open in the morning please?
    yes.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    Johnnysummers5 said:

    Baldybonce said:

    As a slight aside......
    i went in Tkmaxx earlier and it seems to be staffed by Eastern European porn babes. I bought a pair of size 15 trainers just so i can take them back tomorrow.

    Can you tell me what time they open in the morning please?
    If you are looking for a pair of trousers Johnny, ask to have your inside leg measurement checked :wink:
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    I only remember 4 cinemas in Woolwich that were opened at the same time.
    Granada, Odeon, Century in Beresford Square, and the Regal which has just been pulled down.
    Plumstead had 3 cinemas at one time, Century, Plaza and the Savoy on Plumstead Common
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Woolwich was dead in my eyes the day they cut the 696 and 698 Trolleybuses.

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  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    Leuth said:

    *speechless*

    That'll be the day: )
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  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    RaplhMilne said:

    Woolwich,

    General Gordon Square
    First McDonalds the UK ( I was there first day)
    Betting shop next to the station, where you push a pencil written carbon copy slip through the hatch for your 112 x1p reversed forecast doubles through the card at Wembley or Watford or Harringay !
    Covered Market, shoe shop !
    Record shop on square sold, import Jazz Funk 45,s from the USA
    3 Cinemas

    feel free to add your own

    I was there first day it opened as well 'Dedicated to the people of Woolwich' - is the plaque still there?

    - Lord John clothes shop
    - Best fish and chip shop in Spray Street
    - Woolwich Poly of course - The Union was the pub of choice for the sixth form!!
    - 98 shoe shops (well it seemed like it)
    - Used to buy my old mum Coty L'aimont every Christmas from Cuffs
    - Traffic in Powis Steet
    - Biggest Sainsbury's in the country when it opened (used to have a Saturday job there)
    - Royal Artillery at Home every summer on the common
    - Shoe shop next to the Covered Market where I bought my first pair of Squires Brogues.

    So many happy memories. But it has changed a bit from the 60s/70s to now!
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    Who rattled your cage

    Now now, Robert - not the right approach for a wannabe peoples' moderator!
  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,408
    How can you forget the little shop where you could book up your next coach trip for Charlton away games.

    LEWIS COACHES......
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    edited November 2016
    Lewis Coaches said:

    How can you forget the little shop where you could book up your next coach trip for Charlton away games.

    LEWIS COACHES......

    Wasn't there one in Plumstead as well? Pretty sure my Dad and Grandad used to book up for us there.
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    I too visited McDonalds in Woolwich the day it opened with vouchers. Also worked there on the odd occasion when they were short staffed and I was sent in a taxi from Eltham.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Johnnysummers5 said:

    I only remember 4 cinemas in Woolwich that were opened at the same time.
    Granada, Odeon, Century in Beresford Square, and the Regal which has just been pulled down.
    Plumstead had 3 cinemas at one time, Century, Plaza and the Savoy on Plumstead Common

    Had a quick chat with me mother.
    Bearing in mind she is in her late 80's and memory isn't what it was.
    She is fairly sure she remembers 5 cinemas - the 3 that were still operating when I was a lad; Odeon, Granada, Regal (ABC).
    She said there was also one in Powis Street near corner of Hare Street that was bombed out in the War. She doesn't remember the name.
    The fifth was in New Road along from where the Tramshed is and opposite the Post Office. She doesn't remember its proper name, but says it was known locally as the "Bug Hutch"
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Blah blah blah. The blacks and the hipsters are here now. Deal with it. ;)
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,601
    Lewis Coaches said:

    How can you forget the little shop where you could book up your next coach trip for Charlton away games.

    LEWIS COACHES......

    Lewis Coaches said:

    How can you forget the little shop where you could book up your next coach trip for Charlton away games.

    LEWIS COACHES......

    God yes that was opposite the Woolwich Equitable building. Advertised on a chalk board outside the shop. Used to get a hand written receipt !
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Leuth said:

    Blah blah blah. The blacks and the hipsters are here now. Deal with it. ;)

    Come on now Leuth, relax your sphincter for a minute.

    Actually, I remember buying a pair of Hipsters from Harry Fenton in the 60's/70's.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    Jack Ringo's tattoo shop at the time i think he was the only tottoist in South London. At 15 years of age i had twoCharlton tatts done.
    What a plank

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