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Re: Museum of Croydon
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 28 October 10 21:57 BST (UK) »
No help I am afraid Jane but this bought back so many memories as I too went there with my parents to buy my school uniform!

My parents brought many other things including G-Plan dining room furniture there as well!
Yes I too remember Kennards Arcade (slightly down market from Grants  ;D )

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« Reply #10 on: Thursday 28 October 10 22:17 BST (UK) »
Yes - more downmarket - but much more exciting!  There was an Indian gent in a turban selling exotic oils, the bellringers on the archway half-way down - and YES the pony rides at the end!!  Amazing place!! 

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« Reply #11 on: Thursday 28 October 10 22:24 BST (UK) »
I also vaguely remember a zoo of sorts.

Didn't the end of the arcade come out into rather a dingy street opposite Surrey Street market?
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« Reply #12 on: Friday 29 October 10 15:55 BST (UK) »
I recall buying my pet guinea-pig in Kennards!

Also the Guinness clock outside the Fairfield Halls.
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« Reply #13 on: Friday 29 October 10 19:08 BST (UK) »
My first Saturday job was in British Home Stores in Crown Hill - my second was in Joyce's boutique(!) opposite Marks & Spencer.  Used to spend all my wages in Martin Fords!!  Was up in Croydon last week - boy how it's all changed!!

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« Reply #14 on: Friday 29 October 10 19:23 BST (UK) »
It certainly has. I had a Saturday job in Turtles in Park Street.

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« Reply #15 on: Friday 29 October 10 19:40 BST (UK) »
Turtles was still there till a couple of years ago when Mr Turtle retired!!  When I think of all the groups I saw at The Greyhound, Fairfield Halls, Orchid Ballroom, Top Rank Suite... poor kids nowadays have to go to the O2 to see dots on the horizon!

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« Reply #16 on: Friday 29 October 10 19:46 BST (UK) »
I saw The Beatles at the Fairfield Halls.  ;D ;D ;D
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« Reply #17 on: Friday 29 October 10 19:48 BST (UK) »
Arrrrrgh!!  You LUCKY thing!!  My mum wouldn't let me go cos she'd heard about screaming girls wetting the seats!!!  That would have been about 1964?
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