Londis, Lordship Lane

[Bluerevolution]

F*cking hell Otta, don't let her know !!! Mid life crisis and all that !!!

[the-e-dealer]

Le Chardon was Thistells

[easytiger]

It's an excellent site, looks undervalued compared to what other places have gone for comparing square footage prices.

[Zebedee Tring]

We already have Godwin's Law", namely that as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1. Perhaps there should be an EDF Class Law providing that as an EDF discussion grows longer, the probability of an argument about class approaches 1.

[Roundabout]

45 years ago - used to be a Tesco?

[adonirum]

@ Roundabout - if that is a question rather than a statement then the answer is yes, certainly in the early seventies ie: 42 yrs ago it was, as I had a Saturday job there, but defected to the Co-op next door (now the row of estate agents) as they offered me Friday evenings as well!!!!!!!

[Sue]

Bluerevolution Wrote:

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> @#$%& hell Otta, don't let her know !!! Mid life

> crisis and all that !!!

:))

[Cora]

Hi Oggy, couldn't tell you as I have only been here 13yrs and yes on balance I preferred the choice of useful independents we had then as opposed to the rows of estate agents we have now.....but I am very grateful for the greatly improved bus service!

[Jah Lush]

Otta Wrote:

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> It's still pretty easy to score illegal drugs on

> Lordship Lane! But yeah, the stories you hear

> about the Palmerston, The Mag and The EDT

> certainly aren't in keeping with today's ED.

Them was the days.

I do remember Londis as a Tesco as well.

[Jeremy]

Cora Wrote:

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> Hi Oggy, couldn't tell you as I have only been

> here 13yrs and yes on balance I preferred the

> choice of useful independents we had then as

> opposed to the rows of estate agents we have

> now.....but I am very grateful for the greatly

> improved bus service!

Most of the estate agents were already here back then as far as I remember!

I don't think the number of independent shops has really declined either.

[ladida]

Dave's butchers where I think St. Christopher's is now used to the do the best lamb chump chops and mince in the late 80's. Just saying!

[Otta]

Dave's was wicked.

[Alan Medic]

ladida Wrote:

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> Dave's butchers where I think St. Christopher's is

> now used to the do the best lamb chump chops and

> mince in the late 80's. Just saying!

I thought that used to be a furniture store in the late 80's.

[AbDabs]

Dave's was in the smaller St Christopher's shop (as I remember) but I wouldn't speak so highly of it; too often the answer was that they could 'get it in' to really quite ordinary things. The big St. Christopher's was a furniture store. I seem to remember beds.

[val]

Yes we got our bed there in 1982

[EmED]

Very excited to hear this! :) :)

Louisa Wrote:

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> There certainty seems interest already. Guy from

> Space NK was there a few weeks ago looking around.

>

>

> Louisa.

[Jeremy]

It's a wind-up EmED...

[adonirum]

val Wrote:

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> Yes we got our bed there in 1982

You're both right, it was called Doric Bedding (that's Abdabs and Val)

[Pugwash]

yes I remember Doric Bedding, Kingstons the butchers was on the other side of the road, also the fish and chip shop run by Elvis on the corner of Matham Grove?