Andy B
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Following on from my post of Dover market,we got onto the subject of old shops/businesses in town so what do you remember?Any stories,recollections,any shops that have gone in the past 20+years.
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Jan Higgins
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Lovely thread for us long term residents.
I remember the old indoor market in the Market Square before it moved into the haberdashery? building for a short period.
The grocery shop, I think it was called Vines, which was near M&S.
Tesco Home and Wear in Pencester provided many pairs of cheap school trousers for my son.
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Andy B- Location: dover
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Tesco food shop was in Cannon st nr the church yard.Next to that would have been the Wellington inn,that shut about 1971?,my aunt was the landlady there for a while.When i think of old shops which are still trading in town,Boots,Baileys opticians,MK Shepherds,Turners model shop,maybe others but not many left now.
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Francis cafe in high st
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Karlos- Location: Dover
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Can start with a number of record shops.
Humming Bird (Plantation before that) - up from the town hall.
https://britishrecordshoparchive.org/shops/humming-bird-records/
Bakers (Revolver?) - further up on the corner opposite Victoria Hospital.
There was one upstairs in the Charlton Centre when it first opened.
Our Price, and for a while there was one opposite that did all sorts of unusual vinyl.
Even Boots used to do LP's.
Forum seems to be livelier since Vic left
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Andy B- Location: dover
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I can just remember a shop in Cannon street,were you could go into a booth n listen to a record before you purchased.
Reginald Barrington
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Andy B wrote:I can just remember a shop in Cannon street,were you could go into a booth n listen to a record before you purchased.
'Goldens
something'?
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Terry Nunn
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Goulden and Wind it was, and there was also John Scrase in the High Street. Mrs Bicknell had a stationery shop in the High Street opposite the Sally Army. I bought my first fountain pen there when I was at school. At the top of Peter Street was Doyle's toy shop, a magnet for me.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Karlos wrote:
There was one upstairs in the Charlton Centre when it first opened.
Forum seems to be livelier since Vic left
There was also a pet shop for a very short time that I can only vaguely remember, I think it only had fish.
I expect Vic will return.
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Weird Granny Slater
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Well, I'll add Scrivens veg, Gladdish grocer, and the Coop (I think) butcher in Tower Hamlets, and Mr Saunders the newsagent on the corner of South Road and Astor Avenue (who I remember very well, as my Mum marched me back to his shop to make an apology after I came home with rather more change than I should have done, having found it 'unclaimed' on the counter); also Casey's the baker at the bottom of Tower Hamlets Street (you could buy fresh rolls at the bakery entrance before the shop opened); and King's for a glass of pop in the square nearby.
In town I'm sure there was a Coop electrical outlet roughly where the defunct MacDonalds is now; also Geerings in the market square (a bookshop down a spiral staircase in the basement).
Also a shout out for cousins Wilson for fresh fish in the market hall.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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love these replies they bring back so many forgotten memories.
I remember that Coop, they had a Santa in their store opposite upstairs at Christmas time.
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Andy B- Location: dover
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As for Tower Hamlets shops,there is an interesting film on Youtube made in 1973 which shows a few of the shops inc Les Files the newsagents,Kings etc.I was only about 5 at the time but i can still remember going to a deli somewhere along the stretch which is now the Charlton centre and watching the shopkeeper cutting the ham on the meat slicing machine,i was fascinated by it,going to Woolworths with my dad to get a light bulb and they used to test it first before you paid for it,now thats what i call service.
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Was it this one?
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I know of that one,was a film made by Astor school pupils,at a guess 1977-78?,the girl that plays the main part in it is actually my mates wife now. This is the one i meant,
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This must be the silent version,i,m sure this film had sound.
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It did:-
Terry
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If we including tower hamlets
Got to include
Winmore enterprises
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Andy B- Location: dover
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He used to have a small printing business there,then you had Les Files newsagents,and Eric Piper greengrocer.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Timothy Whites were greedy and had a shop on both corners of Worthington Street, one was a chemist. I still have the orange coloured (high fashion colour back then) flour shaker bought from their other shop.
Was the haberdashery shop I mentioned earlier called Hattons?
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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Andy B wrote:...watching the shopkeeper cutting the ham on the meat slicing machine,i was fascinated by it...
Yes, Mr Gladdish had one these, and I too was hypnotised by it. In fact, that shiny machine on the counter is the dominant presence in my memory of the shop.
I also recall the barber Jim Paramour in South Road, not for how he ruined my hair, but for his closing-up routine: he'd padlock the door, give the padlock a few shakes and tugs, then head up Astor Avenue; a couple of minutes later he'd reappear, shake and tug a few more times on that padlock, then head back up Astor Avenue. Never changed.
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