The Woolwich Bank closing

[Louisa]

They also had kennedys deli which I loved, but that has sadly closed down now, i'd love them to come to LL...

Beckenham is a bizarre place, it has a Waitrose M&S and sainsburys all within less than half a mile of each other, along with an Odeon cinema a lidls food shop and a number of annoying chain pubs full of so called 'chavs'. Bizarre place, it even has a tory mp! It all confuses me..

[Keef]

I quite like Lidl too, with the exception of having to queue up for so long!!!!!

[James]

Beckenham is pure arriviste territory. Chavs with a thin veneer of nouveau respectability. Kate Lawler hails from there... go figure.

[Jah Lush]

Ha ha ha...Kate Lawler! the chav queen of Beckenham, or should that read the slagheap of Beckhenham...you choose. And by the way what the hell is a Lidl anyway, damned if I know.

[Keef]

Cheap German goods!

[citizenED]

Its where you swim and hang out in summer, Jah - as in Brockwell Lidl

citizen

[Jah Lush]

What Kate Lawler or Lidl? Sorry this is veering off thread. Right! Woolich closing down...bah!

[citizenED]

OK, so in the place vacated by Woolwich, we should open an actual branch of the Quiet Room.

citizen

[Jah Lush]

Yes, Citizen that's right, Brixton Beach reopens this week. No more Woolwich...oh boo hoo.

[Domitianus]

I think we need another music shop. After all, we only have two in ED at the mment and thee is clearly an insatiable desire for tin-whistles, viola strings and metronomes.

[MadWorld74]

cheap German Goods? oh God. Do they sell Blue Nun and Black Tower?

What about the Co-Operative bank? ED is big on the Co-op. Funeral parlour, co-op supermarket. I want the bank. That would mean I wouldn't have to endure the trawl out to bloody Lewisham to get to my nearest branch.

[Domitianus]

FUNERAL PARLOURS!!! Good thinking. I think we need another one of those.

[Keef]

Madworld, Mrs Keef would definitely agree about the co-op bank, but it would seem they're closing branches rather then opening.

[MadWorld74]

Funeral Directors then. You know what I mean! Undertakers....we could do with an apothecary and a barber surgeon.

[macroban]

I was going to contact karter privately about an exciting business opportunity, but a sense of public service and the need to share overwhelmed me.

The Woolwich premises are large enough for a 24/7 East Dulwich Babe 'n' Buggy Compound. Just like those multi-stacking garages in NYC. Deposit children and/or buggies on demand and pay by the hour with a discount for overnight storage.

Want to go shopping, have a meal, or go for a drink? Dump that child.

Partner away on a business trip and need privacy? Dump that child overnight.

It could be a money machine.

[MadWorld74]

the co-op supermarket (if it can be called that) are selling their own version of the much loved jute/cloth bag now, along with all the others in ED. I forget what my point is, if indeed there is a point....um

Well the co-op bank yes please, and the baby storage place, also sounds like winner.

[Domitianus]

Baby storage sounds tops. Just drug them up for the necessary period of tme, tube-feed them with an automated system and find some way of dealing with the waste products. It could eventually become a vast toddler warehouse resembling the Matrix! Best of all - noise-free!

[SimonM]

>>Beckenham is a bizarre place, it has a Waitrose M&S and sainsburys all within less than half a mile of each other, along with an Odeon cinema a lidls food shop :D<

And David Bowie cut his teeth in one of those chain pubs too...

[Asset]

I'd say that's Beckenham's saving grace.

[jim_the_chin]

macroban, i had a similar idea a few years ago - a baby 'hotel' where the little dahlings could stay for a few hours or overnight whilst the parents pretended they were normal again.

sort of like a cattery, only without the cages. or with in some cases.

[Jah Lush]

SimonM Wrote:

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> And David Bowie cut his teeth in one of those

> chain pubs too...

Yes, the Three Tuns, which is now the Rat & Parrot or whatever ghastly name they've decided to call it.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Not a Rat & Parrot either, anymore anyway - it changes to a (spit) Zizzi pizza joint a couple of years back

When it was the Rat & Parrot I met George Underwood there - he was the guy who punched Bowie and caused the operation at Kings College hospital which led to the permanently dilated pupil. He did the cover to Hunky Dory too

[Jah Lush]

Blimey Sean I think you're right and I had a perfectly revolting meal in there last year with a young lady friend who insisted it would be fine. Never again.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Funnily enough the 2 times I have been to Zizzi's the people I was with insisted the same thing! What is with people!?

[ghostlymaiden]

I spoke to the cashier at Barclays today and he told me that the vast majority of former Woolwich branches would remain and be re-branded as Barclays, the only ones going would be those situated close to a current branch of Barclays which would not be needed any longer. When I asked him about the retail space he looked across to a colleague who I recognised as a former Woolwich employee, and she said that a number of ideas had been kicking around for well over a year, and that speculation was that a shoe shop called 'Blue Velvet' had been discussing the lease on the unit. Anyone know anything about them? Are they an indepedent shoe shop?

Not a duplicate post, my mistake.