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 !!