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SimonM

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>>Still think we need a cake shop -<<


Yes. Everytime I return home to Yorkshire I am reminded what a desert London is for cake shops...Not expensive posh gateaux or boxed Mr Kipling clones, but shops with windows full of small cakes of every description.....time for another pilgramage to Betty's Tea Shop In Harrogate or Elizabeth Botham in Whitby...

Burbage

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Personally, I reckon there's a need for a gentlemens' outfitters, a decent tobacconist and a bicycle shop. But I suspect I'm in a minority.


I'm quite fond of tropical fish shops. There used to be one, called Alpha Aquatics, but it disappeared a few years ago, presumably because the harsh wind of fashion now favours babies over guppies. Others have suggested that ED is short on chintz, and that the frumpier end of the fashion market is uncatered for, but, happily, I'm insufficiently informed to comment.


I think Mockney Piers has the best idea in terms of economic sustainability. Though I'd respectfully suggest that, rather than a direct competitor to the Crystal Palace needle emporium, a rehabilitation clinic would better serve the area without detriment to its social cachet. Unless we've already got one.

Alan Dale

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mockney piers Wrote:

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> Wasn't the Phoenix once one of the first firkin

> pubs, back when it was just a saarf london thing?



Correct- it was called the Phoenix and Firkin before it was O'Neills. That's where they got the latest name from...

PeckhamRose

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To get you fit and not fat, you could cycle ALL the way to Nunhead for your fish at Sopers and your bread and cakes at Ayres. I HATE the idea of these chain stores (stores that sell chains? Back to the sex shop thread again?) like M&S and John Lewis and the like coming to ED. That's what you have busses for, to take you to Central London. Anyway, you can always buy on line and support the post office at the same time; they need the business....
peckhamboy

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Absolutely. Let's boycott Sainsburys. And Somerfield, Budgens, Barclays, HSBC, The Bishop, CPT, Plough, Green and Blue, all the petrol stations and anybody else with the temerity to run a business from more than one outlet. It amazes me how blinkered people on here get over the whole chain/independent thing. Not all chains are bad - for anyone with a job, places like Sainsburys that open outside of "normal" shopping hours are essential. Not all independents are good - some of them have poor service, poor stock, inconvenient opening hours and inflated prices.

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