My mum (91 years young!) well remembers going to Austin's as a child, which she described as an 'Aladdin's Cave'! She absolutely loved it - and is still a shopping fiend to this day (I 'blame' Austin's 😉).
Going back up Peckham Rye, passing Austin's on your right hand-side, just past Phillips Walk (so not far from Austin's at all), I believe there was a British Relay Wireless shop - this would have been in the late 1930s/early 1940s. Does anyone know anything about this?
My grandad (my mum's dad) used to manage it; it was severely damaged in The Blitz - but I am having trouble locating it. Mum's memory is dim (she was 6 at the time); she originally thought it was in Rye Lane, but we think now it was in Peckham Rye just up from Phillips Walk (originally Phillips Road).
