Dulwich in the 1970s

[KidKruger]

Oh, I don't know, I'm sure I remember a few years ago a chap in one local pub was dishing out disco biscuits one Saturday night !!

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> One was an Elderly chap. He was known as 'Mr.

> Biscuit' He used to bring biscuits in to the pub

> and share them around. Lovely old fellow.

> The likes of which will never be seen in these

> parts again.

> Foxy

[lameduck]

I remember the niglers arms

was on corner of sandison and reedham street

this has also been annoying me, my dad had the garage opposite

and used to call it the nigglers

but on dead pubs its the norfolk arms

[cidersioux]

There was a record shop right near the East Dulwich Tavern bought my first two records there for 49p each... Three times a lady by the commodores and all out of love by air supply. when I was 13

[Jan15]

Oh I love that song all out of love and remember it well

[bob]

Well done lameduck it was indeed the Norfolk Alms.

Bob S

[kbabes]

Sue Wrote:

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> There was also a cobblers on North Cross Road, a

> pet food shop and a greengrocer, all now gone.

I think I live in the converted Cobblers :)

[kbabes]

Cafcax Wrote:

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> Is it a coincidence that E.Dul has a pub called

> The Actress & another called The Bishop?

> I've never known if the two pubs shared owners or

> some other connection.

Yep they did, the same company that did up the Bishop took over the Upland - Scott (now owns Meat Liquor). & also Victoria Bellenden

[doogsey]

It's not quite Dulwich in the 70s, but this fascinating recent upload does cover Denmark Hill in the 60s:

[kbabes]

Actually can heartily recommend this book set in ed in the 70?s... ..& written by lifelong resident of the area, has actually been turned into a musical & was due to launch on b?way this autumn but obviously now cancelled for time being, check it out!

Becoming Nancy https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0552162949/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_CbEaFbXZEB94F

[Jan15]

This book looks interesting will check it out thanks Kbabes

[Harry]

Does anyone remember the cinema in Grove Vale opposite the petrol station ?

Saturday morning pictures 9d (old money )

[Sue]

I remember it after it closed down.

Didn't it become something else before it was demolished and flats built there?

[Clutterqueen]

I don't remember the cinema in Grove Vale, only the cinema vaguely in Denmark Hill which then became Dicky Dirt's jean place.

I used to drive my dear Mum down to Lordship Lane for shopping in International food store and on the way noticed that there was a place called the Palace of Peace? Was there for a good few years.

[KidKruger]

Sue, it was a watch manufacturer / wholesale supplier I believe, before being vacated and subsequently demolished.

I tried to get some people together as a syndicate to buy the place (kicking myself now !) but a couple of them being feet-draggers caused us to miss the boat.

Sue Wrote:

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> I remember it after it closed down.

>

> Didn't it become something else before it was

> demolished and flats built there?

[bob]

Yep I do

Bob S

[colville09]

After the Odeon Cinema on Grove Vale closed down it became a Divine Light temple for a time in the 1970s and then a watchmaking / clock factory and when that closed, was demolished.

[ianr]

"The Odeon was closed by the Rank Organisation on 21st October 1972 with "The Burglars"(Le Casse) starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. On 7th June 1973, the building was sold to the Divine Light Mission and became a Palace of Peace Temple to the followers of 15 year old Guju Maharaj-Ji from India.", according to http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/29273.

Harry, when I went to Saturday morning pictures in Wimbledon, when it was only 6d, there was always preliminary communuity singing, with organ accompaniment and words on the screen. Seven year olds singing along to Daisy Daisy, A You're Adorable, Lambeth Walk, Tipperary, Old Father Thames, and so on. And sometimes demonstrations and subsequent sales of things like yoyos. It was a different chain though, Gaumont. Did you get that kind of thing at the Odeon?

[kiera]

Yes, the East Dulwich Odeon became the Palace of Peace.

'BARA' says on another thread

"I lived in Ondine Road at the time and everyone was fed up with the hoards of cars that came each week to listen to the Guru - this was around 1971/2" https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,492794,507015#msg-507015

After that it became London House, home of the London Clock Co. - the company is still in existence

[DulwichFox]

I remember the Odeon in Grove Vale.

When I was 11 (1963) my Aunty took me to see a film. The Incredible Journey.

I lived in Peckham back then.

Used to go to Saturday morning pictures Peckham Odeon when I was younger.

It was 6d or perhaps even cheaper. Cannot remember.

Lots of kids used to 'Bunk in'

There was a serial each week.. Don Winslow.. ??

Foxy.

[Clutterqueen]

I'm sure it was still the Palace of Peace in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Can still picture the owner walking up and down outside the venue in his 1970s style suit.

[JEG1]

Radio rentals next to AJFarmers and Tony the butcher on North Cross Road.

[kbabes]

doogsey Wrote:

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> It's not quite Dulwich in the 70s, but this

> fascinating recent upload does cover Denmark Hill

> in the 60s:

>

Fascinating stuff, particularly the bits & pieces re Peckham & the Surrey canal

[Sue]

Clutterqueen Wrote:

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> I don't remember the cinema in Grove Vale, only

> the cinema vaguely in Denmark Hill which then

> became Dicky Dirt's jean place.

>

Crikey, I had completely forgotten about Dicky Dirt's!

More recently (well, early nineties!) what is now the larger hospice charity shop was a place renting videos.