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My memory must be so rubbish! I don't remember Prime Time, but looking at that picture I don't know how I could have missed it!

When I googled rhinovirus, it said it was the common cold! I don't have what I would call the usual cold symptoms

Have you still got it? 🤣

I don't remember a bed shop. When was that? Before Blockbusters? Oops sorry, I meant to quote the post above bob's.

Thanks for that. Re your exercise - doesn't it depend how it's folded? I'm not going to even attempt to get my brain round that 🤣

Yes the one I remember was round about there, so could well have been next to Dulwich DIY, but I'm getting very confused because you seem to be answering your own posts, but with different information 🤣 Blockbusters was the video shop, wasn't it? There used to be a sort of deli in North Cross Road around 1991 (?), I think it was Turkish. I once bought some cream there. When I got it home, I found it was about three months out of date (I may be exaggerating, I can't remember exactly). When I took it back, the guy opened it up, looked at it, tasted a bit and told me it was perfectly alright 🤣 I didn't buy anything perishable there again 🤣 In more recent times in North Cross Road, there was a little shop next to the mosque which sold really cheap but good quality ginger and garlic. I was sorry when that closed. That's the place which is currently undergoing a really massive renovation. Speaking of garlic, what happened to the French guy who used to come every year to Lordship Lane with strings of onions and garlic? And also in more recent times, there was the pet food and supplies shop in NXR (no actual pets). That closed shortly after the guy's partner, who was a dog walker, was outed on this very forum after one of his clients became suspicious and installed a camera. The recording showed said dog "walker" entering the house, moving the dog lead from one place to another, then leaving the house. Without the dog 😮 I don't know whether the closure was connected with this unfortunate recording, but if not it was an uncanny coincidence of timing. Unless I have misremembered when it closed, but I don't think so.

Glad for you, but I feel worse today! 😭 A friend of mine just told me on Facebook he has been feeling like this on and off for SIX WEEKS 😭 Oh dear. Thanks for that, I didn't know. I will definitely wear a mask if I have to go out, but it feels like I need to rest at the moment. At least I'm sort of glad to hear it's something going around, it's a bit worrying when you don't know what's wrong.

Yet again I wonder if anyone else has what seems to be some kind of bug (Covid test negative). Runny nose on and off for over a week, stuffy head, feeling tired and low energy and a bit crap and a bit headachy and dizzy, but no other cold symptoms. Just me?

It depends if you are in their catchment area, but I and others have often recommended The Gardens on here.

Thanks for the link! I should have thought to add that. If you click on "artists" in the menu, there is information about the artists, but it's very difficult to relate it to the map when you can't print off the map (at least I haven't been able to, but I've only tried from my phone so far).

Do you mean the small charity shop on Lordship Lane just before you get to the roundabout? Near the pharmacist? Can't remember what it's called. The Mind Shop is the one on the corner after you have crossed the road to go to the station, and I'm pretty sure the jeweller/watch repairer wasn't there - it was actually on Lordship Lane, at the roundabout end though. Crikey, I had forgotten about the video shop. The stationers was a strange place, but they sold art stuff as well which was sometimes useful. Then some time later there was that large place - ED Deli? - next to the EDT, which had very yummy Florentines, but seemed to go into a gradual decline until it eventually closed. If it had opened a bit later it might have survived, but probably gentrification wasn't sufficiently advanced at that point. Platform 1 was for a series of pop up restaurants, wasn't it? Or at least, a restaurant with a series of pop up chefs. I don't recall it ever being a cocktail bar? And they were originally going to call it a very rude name ( which sadly I can't remember, but I think it may have been Pussy Liquor - I don't think they were cat owners) and there was a whole thread on here where various people pointed out that it wasn't a very appropriate name, so they changed it 🤣🤣🤣 I think someone must have thought it was hilarious because I think Meat Liquor had just opened down the road ... For a short time there was a very good South Indian vegetarian restaurant, but hardly anybody went to it, and sadly it closed. Again, it might have survived now, it was probably a bit too early in the gentrification process.

When was that? I don't remember that place at all! The double fronted place, I mean. Sorry to hear about Dave. Kebab and Stab! The underbelly of East Dulwich in the back room in the early hours! (Once you got past the guy on the door). Don't remember punch ups in The Palmerston, just trouble in The Uplands Tavern (now The Actress). And whatever happened to the Moulin? Every so often someone on here says the place is going to reopen as something or other, but it never does. Black Cherry lasted longer than the Draft House (?) which replaced it, if memory serves. I agree it wasn't particularly memorable, but it did decent cocktails, and I think it had games (because I have a vague memory of knocking a newly bought cocktail over whilst playing one of the games. I think that might have been on the day of the cocktail crawl 😄) It was an odd space because it was on two levels, with the back part up a couple of stairs, until Franco Manca made it all one level.

Not strictly East Dulwich, sorry admin, but very close! Does anyone know where I can get a printed booklet with the map and details of artists? There's a website, but the information isn't in a format to easily print off.

Congratulations! Devon is lovely! You could see if there's some kind of neighbourhood online group for Barnstaple, and put a similar post on there? Or ask local estate agents, moving firms etc in Barnstaple?

That's a good thought, thanks, I'll offer them free in the for sale section. Though it's just occurred to me that they would have to be using metal boards, which probably isn't very likely! But yes, somebody might be able to make use of them, I suppose, though they are quite old.

Why, is it closed? 😮

There was also a phone shop and a place selling ?sports type clothes? and at least one place selling old prams which were out on the pavement. And an old fashioned jeweller. And a butcher (and another butcher in NXR if memory serves.) And a greengrocer in the stretch of shops down towards the roundabout (and another one in NXR, which lasted some time after the other one closed). Around 1990? OMG that looks like history 😮 Where does the time go?

I can't see any reference to magnets anywhere, including the OKR recycling centre website. I have replaced a number of fridge and whiteboard magnets with stronger ones, but the old ones have a plastic top with the magnet underneath, so I don't think I could put them in the blue bin. I know I could contact the recycling centre, but I thought someone on here might know?

I don't remember an International Cocktail Bar, but I do remember Liquorish. And also, Sea Cow! And also, where Poundland now is, used to be a DSS signing on place. I think that hideous huge Foxtons branch came in between the DSS and Poundland?

And we had a 7/11 ( do they still exist?!) on the corner where Superdrug is now.

How old was the listing? I don't remember that name at all! Are we still talking about The Cherry Tree?

I've remembered the name of the tea shop. It was Chandelier. And full of chandeliers. It had lots of different kinds of tea. And when Blue Mountain opened, which was long before that ( I think), it sold lots of different coffee (I think) and chocolate covered coffee beans. Or have I dreamed that? And the little shop part at the front sold great bread etc. and there were lots of little rooms, all with their own character, including upstairs. It was really quirky. I miss it. But that was about thirty years ago or more, AAAARGH. And it went through several incarnations after that, though always with Mel (I think). It was so sad when it finally closed. Where has the time gone? I can't believe I've been here so long. Oh yes, that does ring a bell.

I think it's you who is cynical 😂 I think the truth is somewhere in between. I can't edit/add to my previous post in answer to this because of the final smiley, I don't know why that should be (memo to self: stop using smileys, it is very childish) . My partner couldn't remember either, but when I said was it The Vale, he said oh yes, that's it. So you win today's prize for best memory 🤣 Unless The Cherry Tree had yet another name before or after The Vale, as that name still rings no bells for me at all!

Crikey, I don't remember that incarnation, or that sign 😮 I must be more senile than I thought. I will ask my other half, whose memory is less crap than mine 🤣

You are confusing The Cherry Tree (near the station) with Black Cherry (which you're right, was briefly The Draft House before becoming Franco Manca!) No, it wasn't The Railway Tavern, and to the best of my recollection it was never a hotel, though I may be wrong. It was called something else prior to the couple taking it over, and they changed its name back to The Cherry Tree because it had been called that previously. I think! Somebody on here will remember what it was called, I'm sure!