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A nod of thanks to Reg Smeeton.


I think this is likely to be a short-lived thread.


1959 is just an arbitary date - 50 years ago.


In the 1950s I did nearly all my shopping in Lordship Lane between The Plough and Goose Green. I must have been in nearly every shop, some many, many times. Now I can only remember a handful of the shop names.


White Dent (estate agents)

Follet's (record shop)

Smith's (greengrocers)

David Grieg (chain grocer)

Woolworths

Co-op (chain grocer - then still interconnected shacks built on stilts over the bomb site)

Segar's (hairdressers)

United Dairies (chain dairy)

Kingston's (butchers)

Melbourne Pianos (piano and musical instrument shop)


Can anyone add to the list?

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"In the 1950s I did nearly all my shopping in Lordship Lane between The Plough and Goose Green."


Has that changed much? i wasn't here in the 50's but I still do this. Of course the premises themselves have changed but the habit hasn't. Regulars listed below but I can't think of more than a handful of shops on the Lane that I haven't been in


Meat - Sparkes or William Rose

Veg - combo of SMBS/the Turkish shop opposite Black Cherry/the new English grocer next to the Warehouse

Hair - Roches usually but will be tryuing out the new barbers

General grocers - depends what's needed but whichever of the small shops I'm closest to at the time and CoOp when I'm stuck

Estate Agents - bought from Bushess, rented from Haart

Wine - Green & Blue mostly with occassional forays into Bossman and Nicolas



White Dent (estate agents)

Follet's (record shop)

Smith's (greengrocers)

David Grieg (chain grocer)

Woolworths

Co-op (chain grocer - then still interconnected shacks built on stilts over the bomb site)

Segar's (hairdressers)

United Dairies (chain dairy)

Kingston's (butchers)

Melbourne Pianos (piano and musical instrument shop)

hi, how about edney sweey shop by the roundabout, jones dairy, home and colonial(video shop) Pearsons Picture framing Hoover shop Collins Fish Shop Achille Sarre dry cleaners Timpsons Coaches, Lockharts toy shop(Chaotic) Styles Bakers Cycle shop(corner of Blackwater) Newsagents where Police station is now Place Bakeries (the Chanderlier) Franklins Farm shop was originally part of David Greig Look on the Gable end to see DG intertwined. Greengrocers where estate agent next to B2 is Flower shop opposite, Kentons?Drapers where smbs is.

Pullins motor and m/cycle dealer where Iceland (Bejam) is.

Lockharts the totally disorganised stationers was next door.

Indian Restaurant on the corner of Chesterfield Grove was the Curry Cabin

Next door was Lee and Son Electrics (he had 7 daughters before he finally had a son)

Soup Dragon was an undertakers.

The Cheese Block was a newsagent/video rental.

Police Station was a dodgy s/h car dealers in two shops.


Any more?

You might be right about Curry Cabin coming later but I have remembered two more

39 Chicken Shop was a furniture shop then later a Launderette

Across the road, about No. 40 Motor Factors.

In the mid 50's 38 or 42 was a bakers, but it may have gone by 1959


Any more?

Oh dear, did you really fall for that, Mick Mac?


Next time you walk down Lordship Lane from your elevated position why don't you raise your eyes and look at the architecture above ground floor level? You might spot some Victorian street furniture remnants you can add to my thread of a couple of years ago.

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