01-05-2016, 06:47 PM
That was a nice article to read.
I always looked forward to a trip to the radio surplus shops. I would start at Lisle Street, then walk to Tottenham Court Road. Afterwads take a tube to Edgware Road for the shops there and lunch in the Metropolitan Cafe, - named after the Metropolitan theatre which used to be opposite.
Health and safety today would not be happy with some of those shops as they had gear stacked from floor to ceiling and you walked along aisles among the stuff!.
I remember one shop in Edgware Road used to have a coal fire burning during the winter.
Apart from John Gilbert in Shepherds Bush market there was also a couple of war surplus shops on the Uxbridge Road opposite Shepherds Bush Green.
Pity it has all gone.
John
I always looked forward to a trip to the radio surplus shops. I would start at Lisle Street, then walk to Tottenham Court Road. Afterwads take a tube to Edgware Road for the shops there and lunch in the Metropolitan Cafe, - named after the Metropolitan theatre which used to be opposite.
Health and safety today would not be happy with some of those shops as they had gear stacked from floor to ceiling and you walked along aisles among the stuff!.
I remember one shop in Edgware Road used to have a coal fire burning during the winter.
Apart from John Gilbert in Shepherds Bush market there was also a couple of war surplus shops on the Uxbridge Road opposite Shepherds Bush Green.
Pity it has all gone.
John
