Youngs Grocery Store- Tower Bridge Road

The Ice Cream Parlour was Rossies, there is a Kebab shop there now and on the other side where Youngs Grocers was is a Dry cleaning shop.
oop! not Youngs.....ABC Bakers

Every post on here brings back more memories - Rossies used to sell ice cream from a sliding window onto the street & i can still see all those donuts on trays in Edwards being sugared hot & the smell & taste of them were lovely

Hi Fosney

Wasn't the bread shop the ABC bakerry? The Aerated Bread Company.

Paperboy

Hello all

Yes it was the ABC. Does anyone remember the pease pudding from Edwards?

Vossy53

Hi Vossy

Well i dont remember Edwards selling pease pudding but there was a butchers a few shops down on the left of Edwards that me nan used to call "Germans" i dont know why she called it that cos that wasnt the real name of the shop, however they used to sell boiled bacon hot n sliced with pease puddin.

We never went into Youngs my mum always shopped at Toby's but i can remember getting our bread from the bakers on the corner of Rossay street - oh and i remember very well the little sweet shop up on the left of Rossay street - the fella in there used to sell one ciggie for 2d and he didnt care how old you were.

Bett

Bett

Yes you are right it was the butchers. I will ask Mum what it was called.  See you on Saturday hopefully

Vossy

Hi Fosney

Yes I remember Youngs, particularly peering over the counter facinated watching the Man patting butter into shape, after weighing  lumps from a big block, and yes the cheese cut with a wire. I can smell the shop now, bacon, cheese, and a mix of other good aromas .and I think the shop was still there until about   8 or so years ago.
 
Also Rossies, their ice cream was great, the wafers made up in a little silver thing. I now live in Southend, on the front there is a Rossies Ice Cream Parlour, the same firm. Their ice cream is still Great!.
 
There was also a clothes shop just past Manzies I think called "Cohens", it had an open front, the owner was allways trying to drag people of the street to sell them something.

Rod.
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Rod

What a small world it is, unknown to us we probobley met in Youngs Store all those years ago and now you mention you live at Southend well it is a small world I lived at Benfleet and then Canvey when I worked with the  PLA at Tilbury before returnig to work in London and moving to Orpington and now Im retired I live at Skegness in Yellowbelly Country where time stands still

Joe

Hi Vossy
Well i dont remember Edwards selling pease pudding but there was a butchers a few shops down on the left of Edwards that me nan used to call "Germans" i dont know why she called it that cos that wasnt the real name of the shop, however they used to sell boiled bacon hot n sliced with pease puddin.
We never went into Youngs my mum always shopped at Toby's but i can remember getting our bread from the bakers on the corner of Rossay street - oh and i remember very well the little sweet shop up on the left of Rossay street - the fella in there used to sell one ciggie for 2d and he didnt care how old you were.
Bett

-bett

Hi Bett
The shop in Rothsay street opposite The Pagoda was called Micky Sullivans, he used to exchange all the pinched discount coupons for half of their face value for all the sweets you could eat! I also used to work in Tobies Store between 1962-63, before I moved to the Co-Op in the Old Kent Road opposite the Deaf & Dumb School.
Does anyone remember The Kings Arms ph opposite the Bricklayers Arm ph, also The Magnet & The Swan, all situated between The Bricklayers Arms Goods Dept and The Bricklayers Arms ph.
Kind Regards
Kevin McSweeney
GuinnessBoy

I don't remember Youngs but in the late 50s there was a David Greggs (nothing to do with the bakers) grocery shop. I worked there as a Saturday girl for a couple of years. I learnt how to cut cheese & slice ham on the bone. Also they used to have big slabs of fruit cake that you had to cut to order. In those days you could not have a Saturday job before the age of 14 & that was only with the schools permission. I done a couple  more Saturday jobs after that before leaving school. I would love to hear what others done. I am sure that there must be plenty of stories about working down the Lane . A younger sister used to work done there weekends & she would have me in knots about the goings on there.. There  was a bakers near Walworth school. They used to sell the most glorious bread pudding.I can't remember if it was them or the bakers in Tower Bridge Road used to cook their jam doughnuts front of shop. The smell & then the taste. I'm drooling just thinking of them.   

I have had that memories in my head for years the man always spoke to me as he pat-ed the butter.,as I peered over the counter I must have been about 5-6 waiting for my mum to do her shopping.

Edwards Bakery TBR certainly cooked there donughts front of shop and the smell was to die for.
Health and saftey would have a field day if they done that now?
They also done bread pudding which was also incredible, and as I went to Webb Street School, it was a weekly treat during lunch times.
Of course it was Pie and Mash on saturdays in Manze.

I remember David Greggs, being somewhere here, used to love their dundee cake, Was this the shop that had the dried fruit in wooden trays outside ?

I worked at the Tower Pharmacy camera shop - got great cheese and tomato sandwiches from Rossies Ice Cream Shop. Miss the doughnuts at Edwards's and the fish and chips with cracklin' next door to them !!

Hi Fosney,
You were enquiring about Youngs Stores.  This was situated about three doors away from Manzes,  next to the ice cream parlour.  I used this store regularly with Fred who used to work there serving every day.  I had my two children by then and he always offered them a piece of sausage while serving me.  A bright cheerful man always ready for a laugh.  The store is still there but it is now a black ladies beauty parlour, with wigs in the window and painting nails, etc.  The old black and white tiles are still on the floor of the doorway of the shop.  My daughter popped in there one day and told them the history of the shop.  They were completely surprised as they knew nothing about it.  She said the interior of the shop was still the same with the marble counters and shelves, and said it looked much smaller to how she remembered it as a child.
Yes, those were the days for real shopping.  All the shops and stalls.  I used to get all my weekly shopping there as we only lived along the Tower Bridge Road and Bermondsey Street.
Now the only shop we recognise there is Manzes which we still use.
Everyone has gone.  The nice fresh fish shop, all the butchers, lovely salad and veg stalls, even a stall which sold second-hand toys, etc. where I used to buy my young son a matchbox car now and then.  Now most of my shopping  is done on line and delivered.  It's all progress I suppose but I do miss the cheerful customer service and a little chat now and then with all those nice hard working people. When you see that awful flyover and think of the shops they demolished to build it. What a waste.  I read in the SE1 paper this week that they are even going to repair the flyover
instead of getting rid of it!
Well Fosney we just have to dwell on our memories as that's all we have left. Sad really isn't it.
I'll never forget the Tower Bridge Road and hate to see it all deteriorated.
Best regards,
Doates.

Does anyone remember the fruit and veg shop called Cox's which was run by a lovely old lady called Madge and next door was the florist run by her daughter, would have been between 1965 and 1976.

I recall waiting with my Mum for the beetroot to finish cooking in a big old copper - glorious smell. I used to get Mum to save the paper bags from the fruit and I'd flatten them out and pretend I was running my own grocers -  used to love filling the bags and spinning them to seal them - happy days, no computers in those days. I think the shop was a few doors to the left of the ABC bakers where my mum worked.

Dawn

DAWN, I THINK THE F+V SHOP YOU ARE REFERING TO ,WAS FOX'S,AND MAGGIE FOX

i am sort of going to the back a bit to a time where there was sit a double forked road thing in tower bridge rd where youngs shop started ,,its now all paved over leaving a large isle where the now line of phones boxes are ,,opposite martins clothes shop was

whenever  the market was open  that road or lane was closed to traffic,, ?

i am sort of going to the back a bit to a time where there was sit a double forked road thing in tower bridge rd where youngs shop started ,,its now all paved over leaving a large isle where the now line of phones boxes are ,,opposite martins clothes shop was
whenever  the market was open  that road or lane was closed to traffic,, ?

-prawny

wasn't there a horse trough somewhere around this area also?