Family argument.

[Drxyster]

To settle a family argument,can anyone confirm or deny that at sometime in the past, there was a Waitrose store in Lordship Lane?

[TheArtfulDogger]

No

[i*Rate]

No; The Co-Op was The International Stores and Super Drug was Tesco's back in the 1980s.

Hope that settles things.

[nxjen]

And there was a David Greig.

There is a page on closed branches on the Waitrose history website and nothing shows for East Dulwich / Lordship Lane there. https://waitrosememorystore.org.uk/content/category/branches-3/closed_branches

[kford]

Wasn't the Co-op a Budgens too, once?

[DulwichFox]

i*Rate Wrote:

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> No; The Co-Op was The International Stores and

> Super Drug was Tesco's back in the 1980s.

>

>

> Hope that settles things.

The Co-op was Somerfields formerly Gateways

DulwichFox.

[nxjen]

Wasn?t the late lamented Londis a Budgen?s at one time?

[JEG1]

M&S was a Beejams and before that a Sainsbury's Freezer Centre.

[JEG1]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> i*Rate Wrote:

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> > No; The Co-Op was The International Stores and

> > Super Drug was Tesco's back in the 1980s.

> >

> >

> > Hope that settles things.

>

>

> The Co-op was Somerfields formerly Gateways

>

> DulwichFox.

And before Gateway it was Safeway's

[Drxyster]

Very many thanks to you all for solving this dispute.

[se22cat]

i*Rate The International Stores had a counter service at the back, too. What a shame they closed!

[siousxiesue]

Drxyster Wrote:

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> Very many thanks to you all for solving this

> dispute.

Who won?!

[nxjen]

se22cat Wrote:

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> i*Rate The International Stores had a counter

> service at the back, too. What a shame they

> closed!

It was dreadful! Sparse selection comprising pre-sliced luncheon meat and corned beef and lumps of drying out cheddar

[Seabag]

nxjen Wrote:

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> se22cat Wrote:

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> > i*Rate The International Stores had a counter

> > service at the back, too. What a shame they

> > closed!

>

> It was dreadful! Sparse selection comprising

> pre-sliced luncheon meat and corned beef and lumps

> of drying out cheddar

Gosh, there were places like that, I?d actually forgotten how rubbish things used to be.

[Drxyster]

Who won ? My daughter and myself.

[Bony Fido]

JEG1 Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > i*Rate Wrote:

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> > > No; The Co-Op was The International Stores

> and

> > > Super Drug was Tesco's back in the 1980s.

> > >

> > >

> > > Hope that settles things.

> >

> >

> > The Co-op was Somerfields formerly Gateways

> >

> > DulwichFox.

>

> And before Gateway it was Safeway's

When we moved to SE22 in 1979, Superdrug/Londis/B2(Budgen's) etc was a 7 Eleven

[bodsier]

So incidentally where was David Greig? I feel sure the sign inside Tart looks very similar to the one that was at Loughborough junction....what hapowbedvto tgat sign that was there as it has gone..

[nxjen]

Yes, that?s where it was. There used to be, or perhaps it?s still there, a thistle insignia which was David Greig?s logo. Tart?s predecessor was a restaurant called Le Chardon, French for thistle.

[snoopy17]

What was co op before somerfield?

[Pugwash]

The first supermarket on the now co op site opened in the 1960s - cannot remember whether it was Somerfields but have an idea it was a really naff name.

[Sue]

nxjen Wrote:

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> Yes, that?s where it was. There used to be, or

> perhaps it?s still there, a thistle insignia which

> was David Greig?s logo. Tart?s predecessor was a

> restaurant called Le Chardon, French for thistle.

For a time, bizarrely, it was called Thistells :))

[Sue]

JeremyWHathaway Wrote:

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> I think no

I think yes.

Anybody else remember Thistells?

ETA: This was some years back.

[bob]

It was amazing when it was thistles the chef and owner was called Sammy Josef Egyptian Moroccan cuisine amazing Bob S

[bsand]

nxjen Wrote:

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> se22cat Wrote:

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> > i*Rate The International Stores had a counter

> > service at the back, too. What a shame they

> > closed!

>

> It was dreadful! Sparse selection comprising

> pre-sliced luncheon meat and corned beef and lumps

> of drying out cheddar

and lots and lots of Gammon.ED was staunchly working-class back then!

[first mate]

And before all that it was a butchers, hence the tiles.

Sue Wrote:

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> nxjen Wrote:

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> > Yes, that?s where it was. There used to be, or

> > perhaps it?s still there, a thistle insignia

> which

> > was David Greig?s logo. Tart?s predecessor was

> a

> > restaurant called Le Chardon, French for

> thistle.

>

>

> For a time, bizarrely, it was called Thistells :))