Martin Linton MP

[SimonM]

>>Yeah me. I can never find anything I like in M&S foodhalls<<

They do the best creme caramels; their cheesecake is nice. Errrrmmmmmm....

[macroban]

Ouch! lozzyloz

Not an easy question, so much data to consider; too nuch for here - and a risk of being lounged.

The best book I have come across on this subject is Alec Cairncross' "Years of Recovery: British Economic Policy 1945-51" (some of the data goes up to 1954). Unfortunately the book was published by Metheun in 1985, but perhaps a copy can be borrowed through the Southwark Libraries inter-loan service.

If I were to pick out one feature of this period which subsequent recessions (proper and mini) have not experienced is raw material and import supply problems.

And, to try to keep this on topic, you might have visited all the gift shops in East Dulwich and not been able to find a single cushion or candle-stick.

Now for the collective East Dulwich Forum YAWN.

[HonaloochieB]

macroban Wrote:

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> Now for the collective East Dulwich Forum YAWN.

Macroban I can only think that's an acronym referring to some sort of economic recession.

My guess is Years Away Worry Not.

Am I close?

[RosieH]

macroban Wrote:

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> And, to try to keep this on topic, you might have

> visited all the gift shops in East Dulwich and not

> been able to find a single cushion or

> candle-stick.

>

hell yeah, tedious I know but I'm in need of a soap dish. i figured with the myriad random tat shops I was onto a winner - nothing down northcross, nothing down LL - poncy soap aplenty but nowhere to stick it

as for mark up, I used to work for a retailer that sold some of the same sort of stuff and the mark up was a standard 205%, unless they thought they could get away with more

[jimbo1964]

Grace and Favour have a lovely line in enamel soap dishes.

I've seen the Northcote Road slowly go down the pan and nobody can stop it (the shop keepers have been campaigning for years so I think Linton is a bit slow off the mark). I think Tony's cafe is the last good shop on the street (hopefully he's still there). The problem there is a lot of the people are seriously rich so it's almost turning into an extension of the Kings Road.

[SimonM]

>>hell yeah, tedious I know but I'm in need of a soap dish. <<

Did you try the bathroom shop by the police station?

[Administrator]

Please keep this on topic

[HonaloochieB]

I wonder where Martin Linton bought his soap dish?

[lynxse]

We need and Abercrobie and Fitch, at the very least, on LL. All the carbon emissions just having to go into the West End! Now I hear they are opening a Hollisters in Piccadilly. LL?