I Do Miss…..

All the newsagents/sweetshops are disappearing where I live. So many memories of hanging around my local one having a free read of that week's comics.
I suppose the supermarkets all sell newspapers and magazines and stationery and sweets nowadays, so another bit of the past on the way out.

Woolies is alive & kicking in Australia. Its a huge supermarket and also, separately, a Woolies as we knew it selling just about everything you need and more that you don’t know you need! I love going there when visiting DD.
I bought my first bra in Woolworth in Croydon on the way home from school aged 11, egged on by my friend Gaynor Wenham. ?. I didn’t need one (it was pale green if I remember correctly). I loved the stationery dept. full of notepads and newly invented ‘biros’.

I remember the clear box filled with peanuts. It was heated and the nuts were warm when we bought them.
I remember my darling mum telling me that everything used to be sixpence in Woolies. She bought a frying pan there. It lasted for donkeys years.

Woolies is alive & kicking in Australia. Its a huge supermarket and also, separately, a Woolies as we knew it selling just about everything you need and more that you don’t know you need! I love going there when visiting DD.

Yes, Big W is always a port of call for me as well!
I bought some clothes there last time.

Big W opened near here in the UK but unfortunately didn't last long. I think The Range took over the site.

Yes I miss it too.used to get my nephews little pressies for Xmas from there. I had a glass fruit bowl, my mum had it for years and I remember her giving it to me. Sadly I dropped it and it shattered.

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Marmight - the Woolworths in Croydon is the one I used to go to. Right from a child until a few years ago when Mr R and I started going to Bromley.

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Marmight - the Woolworths in Croydon is the one I used to go to. Right from a child until a few years ago when Mr R and I started going to Bromley.

It was in the road at the end of Surrey Street market. I was at The Old Palace school but moved away when I was 12. Never been back to Croydon since! Funny the events from way back which stay in one’s memory. Obviously buying a first bra was a Big Event ?