Such great footage. I miss the massive coop. My fathers dry cleaning shop can be seen opposite the coop, the orange place. Such good memories. I used to love the cheese cake they did at greggs, also the apple danish with almonds on top.
Hear hear. Loved that place. Used to spend ages drooling over the display of Tri-Ang train sets that filled one window (I never got one). Bought our first record-player there on HP in 1963. I'm just old enough to remember how they used to deal with cash payments there in the old days. There was a system of trolley wires snaking across the ceiling. The shop assistant would take your money and put it with a docket for the purchase into a little wooden receptacle, which was then sent whizzing along the wire over to the accounts department. There it would be opened, the docket stamped "paid" and replaced along with any change, and back it would come to the counter. When the point of purchase was some distance from accounts, the wooden thingie sometimes had to change direction en route, which it did with a satisfying thump and a shower of sparks from the electrical part of the apparatus.
Both sorely missed. Someone should write a history of the area, with particular reference to the role of the Co-Op - the whole organisation, I mean, not just the shops shown here.
Used to be Alexander's when I lived nearby. You had to watch them: I once bought a sliced loaf there for my Mum when I was about 8. They slipped me one of the less popular "thin-slice" ones.
Just a minor point, but why not have a 1993 song at the start instead of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Relax, which is 1984? I would, subject to Copyright, pick Freddy Mercury's remix "Living on my own"
Moved to the area in 1995. The End house had its windows bordered up, I still remember what it said N.F! of course being 10 I never knew what the NF was, me and my mates spent years getting chased by glue sniffers
