Charley Farley

Many thanks, all of you. Yes it does seem like we are talking two different joke shops here. I'm pretty sure that "Rogers the joke shop" (which definitely rings a distant bell) had ceased trading by the time I'd left school (1966) ~ so Grove Vale (now the bakery) is the one ~ and the military stuff & the guy with a beard would be a different shop on North Cross Road (particularly if it was still going in the 1980s). Many thanks for all the feedback ~ brilliant ~ if anyone unearths any old images of "Rogers the Joke Shop" from the sixties, that would be the unholy grail. Thanks again...

Ah thanks ~ I think I've narrowed it down to 52 Grove Vale (which is now Blackbird Bakery) ~ be very interested to find any photos of that particular premises circa 1961 - 1966...

Hello. I'm wondering if anyone here can remember a little Joke Shop in East Dulwich (think it might've been on Lordship Lane?) that was operating in the early 1960s... I was at school then in Dulwich (circa 1961 / 66) and used to spend much of my spare pocket money down there on scary latex masks and fake spiders to terrify my family. I remember the store being run by an old lady...