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HAha, if you are talking about the shop I think you are, we were walking past when they were intalling the lit shop sign. Without exaggeration, we had to shield our eyes and cross the street! It is so obnoxiously bright. I feel sorry for the houses opposite..

Penguin68 Wrote:

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> K & J Libretto and Daughters I believe. K is Kim,

> and J his son Jake.

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He's a superb butcher, sunday dinner and xmas every year from him


doesn't take cards and it's always a dash to get there by 2pm saturday, but meat is class


I was at school with his eldest daughter as well

To get back on topic: FHR shops are good but let down by a few grotspots. The yellow/blue monstrosity has been like they for years, so I doubt its owner will do anything to improve its looks. I like the bollards and bins that've been painted but lament the uneven shop fronts. Well done to those businesses that are doing their bit to beautify it and boo-hiss to the ones that aren't.

AnotherEDer Wrote:

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> HAha, if you are talking about the shop I think

> you are, we were walking past when they were

> intalling the lit shop sign. Without exaggeration,

> we had to shield our eyes and cross the street! It

> is so obnoxiously bright. I feel sorry for the

> houses opposite..


You must be thinking of somewhere else as there are no houses opposite. That little row of shops on Wood Vale overlook Camberwell Old Cemetery.



Two Trees was good. Do wish the owners would reopen or at least do something with that space.

Love the Turkish Supermarket too.

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I hope the 'Seamaster people' don't extend their new diner to take up the whole forecourt, as they have done with their fish and chip shop, leaving no accommodation for their bins. There's hardly room for two people to pass each other on the pavement outside Seamaster, with the bins on the already narrow pavement.

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