Shop (under restoration), Woodside Crescent, Sidcup, Kent
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Shop (under restoration), Woodside Crescent, Sidcup, Kent
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 3 Aug 2008
In this corner of a small line of "units", in the 1940s (maybe earlier) and through at least into the 1960s, was the "Tuck Shop". Juniors, at the school (fifty yards to the right at the end of the street) having asked permission of the dinner ladies, were allowed to come round at lunchtime for our black-jacks, sherbet dips, bootlaces, aniseed balls, gobstoppers, chewing gum (discouraged), lemonade powder, liquorice (lickerish!) wood, shrimps etc. These small premises are under restoration, though I doubt they will be shops again. Strangely (or not) I can't remember what any of the other shops sold formerly. Can anyone help? https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/910867 Update 2020. They've been demolished and two houses built, but that featheredge fence is still there! https://i.imgur.com/oYOPt7W.jpg
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Image Location
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