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Shops you no longer see

Algarveaddick
Algarveaddick Posts: 21,360
edited February 2010 in Not Sports Related
What ever happened to some of the shops you used to see on most High Streets that have now vanished?

A couple to kick off with:

The Golden Egg
Timothy Whites
Kennedys (South London only).

Anyone remember any others that have now been swallowed up, or just gone out of business (Woolies not included)?
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  • NorthStandUltra
    NorthStandUltra Posts: 2,545
    Crystal Palace Club Shop??
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,108
    I have never heard of any of those !!!!
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,197
    Prime Time Video, havent seen one for years.
  • SE10Addick
    SE10Addick Posts: 2,973
    Bejams?
  • Amos on the wing
    Amos on the wing Posts: 1,804
    Fosters-A clothes shop in Woolwich High Street
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    Insurance brokers
    Bank branches
    Butchers (all my local ones have closed)
    Greengrocers (ditto)
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,287
    Gentry Sports by Welling corner.

    Although not sure if the fishing and gun shop versions are still by Danson Park?
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    edited February 2010
    [cite]Posted By: SE10Addick[/cite]Bejams?
    taken over by Iceland in the '80s
  • Spankie
    Spankie Posts: 1,537
    edited February 2010
    Threshers
    Safeway
    Our Price
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,016
    [cite]Posted By: SE10Addick[/cite]Bejams?

    Taken over by Iceland a fair few years ago.

    Don't know what happened to Our Price and Sam Goody record shops.

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  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,436
    liptons
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,197
    Bexleyheath Indoor Market & Trading World.
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    Wendy's burger bars
    Benjy's sandwich bars
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,287
    [cite]Posted By: Spankie[/cite]Threshers

    There's a Threshers at the Oval in Sidcup
  • Spankie
    Spankie Posts: 1,537
    edited February 2010
    [cite]Posted By: Chris_from_Sidcup[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Spankie[/cite]Threshers

    There's a Threshers at the Oval in Sidcup

    That must be the only one. 99% of them have gone. One in Long Lane, one in Blackfen and Northumberland Heath have all bitten the dust.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 8,016
    [cite]Posted By: Alex Wright[/cite]Wendy's burger bars
    Benjy's sandwich bars

    Think there's still a Wendy's on Deptford Broadway.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,287
    C&A
    Virgin/Zavvi
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,464
    HINDS
    Booers (Eltham High Street)
    Raggity Anns (Blackheath)
    Kwik Save
    Coats & 'Ats (C&A)
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,725
    edited February 2010
    Cuffs and Garratts in Woolwich, Victor Value in Welling.

    I'll think of more!

    EDIT: Not shops but Berni (?spelling) Inns.
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    Happy Shopper

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  • dartfordgent
    dartfordgent Posts: 885
    pricerights

    ABC cinema

    Challenger and Hicks
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,287
    The Charlton store in Bexleyheath
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,464
    edited February 2010
    [cite]Posted By: Chizz[/cite](C&A)

    and the L is for "left", see? So that way, I know which one to put on which foot.

    "Oh", she said, "that's why it says "C&A" on the label of ...
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,165
    C & A
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Wavy Line
    Maid Marrion
    Caters
    Presto
  • NorthStandUltra
    NorthStandUltra Posts: 2,545
    Didn't Our Price end up as part of the Virgin Group, then some were re-branded Zavvi before they went belly up?
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,464
    [cite]Posted By: Chris_from_Sidcup[/cite]C&A
    Virgin/Zavvi
    [cite]Posted By: Chizz[/cite]HINDS
    Booers (Eltham High Street)
    Raggity Anns (Blackheath)
    Kwik Save
    Coats & 'Ats (C&A)
    [cite]Posted By: AFKABartram[/cite]C & A
    I'm surpsised no-one's mentioned C&A
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,287
    Radio Rentals
  • Red5
    Red5 Posts: 837
    Beatties: The best (boys) toy shop ever:

    Got my first train set/scaletrix there, sniff!
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,184
    Woolworths
    C & A
    Electric Boutique
    Any Toy Shops.

    There's a Wendy's in Lewisham high street and loads of butchers there too. The Kennedy's in Bromley turned in to a Formula one shop which has also gone.

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