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Post by bigglesworth on Aug 25, 2007 18:35:54 GMT 1
Buying my first pair of tonics ( two tone strides ) those were the days about £3.00 a pair  |
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Post by The Historian on Aug 26, 2007 17:59:33 GMT 1
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Post by ian on Aug 26, 2007 21:12:53 GMT 1
The shop was owned by an elderly gent, I always thought that one of the two young lads who worked in there owned it.
I bought my first Harington jacket in there for £4.50, a green one.
Does anyone know when the shop closed down?
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Post by davidshortlandsval on Sept 5, 2007 14:50:28 GMT 1
No, sorry.
My only connection with clothing was with school uniforms, from the premises of Josiah Messent on the REGAL roundabout. That was in 1941. Amazing how long those blazers, ties and caps lasted. I still have the cap badge.
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Post by bigglesworth on Sept 5, 2007 15:43:54 GMT 1
Josiah Messent !!! I bet even in those days you still had to have a few quid to go in that shop. If it were still around today I bet a pair of carpet slippers would cost a monkey. Sell the cap n badge on Ebay.
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Post by chelseagirl on Sept 27, 2008 14:37:22 GMT 1
 I remember buying a blue and white check ben sherman, and my first pair of Levis, does anyone else remember sitting in the bath with the jeans on to shrink fit them!
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Post by appendix on Sept 1, 2010 22:19:38 GMT 1
I got my first blue bell bottoms(pre-flares) there(to go with a bright red oversized Military jacket from an antique shop) ,and some Levis to shrinkfit in the bath,come to think of it
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Post by mikepad on Sept 11, 2011 21:58:46 GMT 1
Does any one remember the shop near Penge may have been Churchfields Road called Crossleys. He was a real broad Yorkshireman? used get most of my clothes there as young schoolboy. Mum paid of course  |
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Post by petefish on Oct 16, 2012 23:55:18 GMT 1
Sherricks was brilliant, straight in after pay day, tonics, white stay pressed, harrington and ben shermans, very smart.
But pince of wales check suit from good old Burtons.
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Post by nigelhberry on Feb 22, 2013 9:06:31 GMT 1
Ah! Ben Sherman's and Levis, the suit of the Sixties generation. My love of Oxford shirts has never left me and I still have several pairs of Levis. Sherricks was a great shop in Penge.
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Post by alienlifeform on Aug 19, 2016 9:58:25 GMT 1
Worked in Burtons Penge until 1970. Barry ran Sherricks but the old man owned it.
Dales was the other shop for kit.
Sherricks did bennies and sta press. Burton was mostly made to measure in those days. I was lucky as got all my suits made using 14 Dormeul Tonik mohair. 13" centre vent 3 button jacket Trs 3/4 turn up. 17 1/2 " knee 17 1/2" bottoms.
Proper Harringtons came from Squires in Twickeham where you got your Royals or Tassled loafers.
If anyone has pictures of those days would be v interested
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Post by The Historian on Aug 21, 2016 14:17:56 GMT 1
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Post by alienlifeform on Jan 21, 2017 20:59:53 GMT 1
Pete Liddington Worked with me there Along with an Irish guy Called Patrick
Yes there was a Squires on Kings Rd
I got it wrong the shop we went to was the Ivy League in Richmond.
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I remember buying a blue and white check ben sherman, and my first pair of Levis, does anyone else remember sitting in the bath with the jeans on to shrink fit them!