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From: "Songbird" <>
Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:10:53 +0100
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Don't know the answer to that one. I only remember, with sorrow,
that it had closed down.
Photo on
http://www.milesfaster.co.uk/gallery/kensington-high-street/barke
rs-of-kensington.htm
It's now known, hideously, as "Barker's Arcade" Thank God and
Westminster Planning that the building wasn't demolished........
Who remembers "Gamages" of Holborn? When I take my grandchildren
to see Father Christmas I think back, with nostalgia, to the
Father Christmas show in Gamages. Still never seen a better one
or a better Toy Shop.
Josi

----- Original Message -----
From: "patricia salter" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Coop Tickets


: Talking about Barkers of Kensington, wasnt that the department
store that
: became my favourite of all time, Biba, the fashion emporium to
beat all
: fashion emporiums, and I seem to remember that somewhere in
that black
: interior those old money tubes still whizzed around, or am I
mistaken?
: Patti
:
:
:
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Songbird" <>
: To: <>
: Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 2:18 PM
: Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
:
:
: > Ourt fizzies were delivered by Neptune! Will I ever forget
the
: > name of the supplier? No.
: > Has Neptune called today? we used to ask...........
: > Barkers of Kensington used to have overhead wires on which
was
: > suspended a carrier for cash. The cashier sat high up in a
pulpit
: > affair, in the centre of the shop. The carriers whizzed back
and
: > forth at a rate of knots.
: > The tube version is used today, in Tesco's..........
: > Winkles, etc.Yuck!
: > The Walls "Stop me and buy one" man would come our driveway
to
: > sell us ice cream through the window.
: > Ah! Those were the days :0(
: > I was a lot younger! :0)
: > Nostalgia bound Josi
: >
: > ----- Original Message -----
: > From: "patricia salter" <>
: > To: <>
: > Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 8:57 AM
: > Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
: >
: >
: > : You're right, I was wrong, it wasnt White's fizzy drinks it
was
: > Corona, getting my fizzies all mixed up - signs of a
befuddled
: > brain :-) No winkle man, poor you, you dont know what you
: > missed - fresh winkles, cockles, shrimps and mussels, yum
yum,
: > for tea on a Sunday. Or failing that, a trip down to Lee on
Sea
: > to sit on the sea wall eating them freshly gathered.
: > : Patti
: > :
: > :
: > : ----- Original Message -----
: > : From:
: > : To: ;
: > : Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 9:23 PM
: > : Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
: > :
: > :
: > : In a message dated 25/09/2004 18:38:36 GMT Standard Time,
: > writes:
: > : Going back down memory lane, does anyone remember the
: > White's fizzy drink
: > : van coming round once a week, the winkle man and the
knife
: > grinder?
: > : Patti
: > :
: > : Well, I recall the Corona man (in Nottingham, early
1950s)
: > bringing soft drinks. A knife grinder called once, in the
late
: > 1960s or possibly even 1970s (Kings Lynn, Norfolk). No winkle
man
: > though as far as I recall
: > :
: > : --
: > :
: > : Mike Stone - Peterborough, England
: > :
: > : For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our
: > fathers' God.
: > : Though hast made thy children mighty By the touch of the
: > mountain sod.
: > : Thou hast led thy chosen Israel To freedom's last abode
: > : For the strength of the hills we bless thee Our God, our
: > fathers God.
: > :
: >
: >
: >
:
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