On Monday January 14th 2013 the forecast was snow and as soon as I woke around 7.30 I defrosted the fridge which took a couple of hours and then made my way to Asda where it was evident a substantial number of people had the same idea of restocking in the event of a prolonged severe winter spell with road and foot travel hazardous. There was a call for more checkout staff as the numbers were significantly greater than usual.
I was out of meat so purchased three cartons of lamb steaks, 6 steaks for £10 a saving of £2 and two cartons of 2 stewing steaks at £7, saving £1 and 2 cartons each of three large pork chops at £3,0 each 16 main course meals. However I did not eat meat over the week. I decided on 2 of the larger chicken at £5, usually buying he medium size now £8 for 2 and which will each provide 3 meals, total now 22 as well as fancying new smaller carton of spicy hot chicken wings £ 2 each 24 main meals provided. From frozen food there was two all day breakfasts at £1,50 for breakfast treats, two more sausage and mash £1 each with only two sausages to add to the one in store planned for today but later changed mind and one of spicy wings 27 main meals given that if have about 15 portions of sprats as main meals also in stock although the small pizza also purchases is used on a Saturday with sprats as a special treat,
I was getting short of small bottled water and luckily was able to get the last of a special offer of 16 bottles for £2 noting that near the check out bottles of a similar size were on sale at 50pence each. I was also close to being out of Pepsi purchasing another of the 18 small can packs for £5.60. Although I have a large Christmas bought tin of mixed Crackers available I decided on two large packs on offer for £2 about half the price of the Christmas packs, debating if I should get more, Usually I get 6 eggs for £1 this time I purchased 15 for £1.50. I was out of spread so a pack of Clover light again at special offer £1, some pate 64p which i enjoyed as a late breakfast with two small baked rolls. There is pate left sufficient for another meal using a baguette or rolls tomorrow. There was milk and marked down loaf around half price which I was freezing in two slice portions so best use by date was not relevant and there was the indulgence, my crime against body of the day a ginger fruit loaf which I wolfed during the day, all of it. Total £66.
I then beat a hasty retreat as the blizzard commenced, with some settling. There was more snow later and then more on Tuesday but by Wednesday it stopped and despite the forecast there as no more overnight and with morning bring but cold I decided it was time to venture out to the pictures to see Quartet at Bolden at 2.30. The snow was forecast again for Friday and indeed after a slow starts it fell convincingly throughout the afternoon bringing a coverage of several millimetres. I attempted to clear the snow from the lane outside by garage because of the problem of getting the car in and out previously. It started to snow again so I retreated but had a further go this morning Saturday 10th but decided to leave the job half done when it looked as if there was a thawing process underway. This is the danger though if it does not clear, gets colder and freezes to ice.
I made up for the fruit loaf indulgence with good work using the sport disk and exercise on Wii for the rest of the morning about 90 minutes of good work and this was followed up by several good days with sports in the morning and exercise later. Having been two hours under the target average of 30 mins of good exercise I am back on target, The amount of registered use is higher because of activity which not intentionally contrariety to calorie burning.
I have become excellent at the boxing with four first round knock outs two second round knock outs and one 3rd round knock down that is seven consecutives although I have been knock down in separate fights twice. With each win my rating rises, at present 584 but so does the rating of opponents with 617 and 637 in the last two fights, This is most satisfying of the games to date given the frustration of my youth when I was not allowed to join the school boxing club. I have to record that I was knock out in the eighth fight three times against two and lost. The next fight later to day will be interesting! I fought twice in fact and both were hard fights going to the third round and I was knocked down twice. But by ducking and more sideways head movements I knocked out the opponent in both fights so it 9 out of ten wins and my rating is now over 600.
I have tried real ten pin bowling in the past but hand eye coordination, lack of experience and belief was such that I expected to be hopeless and was. It is the easiest of the sports games to play with a score of over 200 points for ten lane ends very good and this has been achieved once with 204 points and other good score of 174 to day 145 and generally in the 120 or lower! On Saturday I scored over 200 points again (202).
The indoor bowling does not require a lot of puff like boxing and tennis where I am at the practice courts only although gradually making progress having return 10 services five times and where one has to switch from forehand to backhand, I need to work out how to do a quick smash at the net for 11th return.
When I start a session I will fail to score or just manage a couple of hits but after warming up on Friday I achieved 0.0 6 10 8 10 6 which is progress given previous sessions. I am also on the golf practice range where I have made progress in two of the three practice games available. There is a 10 target shot across water to hit a target circles offering 10 15 50 and an inner of 100. It is easy to over as well as under hit and until to day the best score was 360 with 270 after that but after several not so good performances this I achieved 400 points a silver medal award knowing that with one error shot and two over hits I can do better. This will prove a great challenge.
There is also a ten shot approach practice on to the green with a score of millimetres registered under 20 but if you fail to make the green there is a basic score of 30 metres. I have gradually worked out that with the majority of holes the danger is to over hit and but on a couple including the last under hitting is more likely. Three days ago I had an amazing session with only one of ten failing to make the green and a total 61 meters and a silver medal award. Since then I been unable to capture the touch, getting under 100 only twice and in the 90’s. The other game is baseball where in timing is the art as well as striking the ball cleanly and getting a home run over 100 metres. I have once scored 3 home runs in a practice game and 470 metres.
I have completed 88 exercise session averaging 30 mins of real workout a sessions and have not missed the last 15 days after the break over Christmas and New Year, With the Sports disk I have therefore doubled the amount of activity a day and with preparations, weighing and breathers this amount to two hours where previously the only effort during the Winter months was to cook or the climbing stairs to the toilet and eventually to bed.
While I have not missed a night of Sleep Apnoea machine use since returning from the Paralympics in September 2012 and the average per night since getting the machine is now 7.7 that is over 230 for the 30 day cycle sleep has been a struggle over the past week, My weight has varied around just over 16 and a half to 3-4 to four pounds higher and with the cold weather I have had to much bread and potatoes in the diet. This has to change but overall the position is good for if I can keep close to 16 and half until the Spring another half stone to a stone is achievable and beyond that which is my aim, we shall see, I have used one of the chickens this week with a stir fry Wednesday and a curry Thursday with the pizza Friday There has been baguettes and rolls recently for the other meals with cereal or porridge for breakfast. Yesterday. I had two poached eggs on toast as a change, Roasted salted peanuts (3) and unsalted (1) in large bags at £1 in a post Christmas sale is the other culprit in weight reduction failure. After the last bags is consumed I will see if I can manage without such extras.
There has been much TV watching with many films and almost no writing and contemporary art project work. Mr Selfridge is a new BBC fictional series on Harry Gordon Selfridge from his arrival in London and creation of the famous store in Oxford Street. I have always been fascinated with this store since taken there on one of my first visits to central London as a boy after the end of World War II. The interest of the “aunties” was because the store imported olives and Italian salami. In general our circumstances prevented other purchases and visits were only made once or twice a year, I continues to visit on trips to London because of the childhood experience although not to purchase as salami and olives can be bought far cheaper in supermarkets and local delicatessens. On my last visited I noted that Champagne, oysters and caviar bar where one will part with £100 plus.
I commenced to write a piece about this and other TV programmes several hours ago but I then sidetracked myself into a different kind of piece about my attraction to the department of old and trying to find out when Kennards of Croydon was developed although I suspect after Selfridge had introduced the concept into the UK of A Store to Entertain. Whereas Selfridges always aimed at the better class of client Kennards of Croydon was a store for the people with a zoo in the basement and Donkey rides outside in the road leaving to Surrey Street and an orchestra for dancing to in the restaurant. There was also an announcer advertising bargains and events.
This contrasted with Grants of Croydon which was created before Selfridges in 1894 and remained traditional akin to the kind of store which he disliked and was regarded as the Harrods of the day. There was added significance because of the proximity to London’s main airport of the era, Croydon and the store provided uniforms for the RAF when the airport became a key location with Biggin Hill for the Battle of Britain. There are two videos around 3.35 of Croydon airport in the thirties and in 1938 on You Tube.
Grants closed in 1985 but in 2000 the Facade was retained and returned to its original condition while behind a multiplex, Gym, restaurants and night club were created. While there is a new Debenhams on part of the Kennards site, the other Croydon store Alders continued as part of a large indoor shopping centre behind the pedestrian High Street. Alders was the oldest of stores created in 1862 and was the third across the road from Kennards and less than 100 metres from Grants. Although the store was damaged during World War II along with most of the properties in Croydon, it never closed. However its fortunes have varied since, becoming the flagship for a major group, going into administration, a management buy out saw fortunes change again and a growing company which purchased a number of other stores and then disaster struck last year, went into administration and I understand is now closed.
My search for information about Kennards led me to Internet site of Francis Frith, the photographer, some of whose photos of Old Wallington and Beddington I have purchased. I discovered 56 pages of memories about Croydon Times past and seven pages of photos. This led to a site which contained photos and performance bills` The Grand Theatre, Davis Cinema and Theatre, Theatre Royal, Empire Theatre of Varieties, Hippodrome/Odeon and to the Frith site and photos of the areas Wallington, Beddington, Sutton, Purley and Croydon and then the two 3 minute plus videos of the Airport.
So it is back to Selfridges which had 100 departments when it was created nine public lifts and six staircase including a grand one at the entrance. The store aimed to attract more and a wider range of customers through displaying goods and providing a range of other services, including a library and a reading room and reception areas for French, German, American and Colonial customers, There were several restaurants including the Palm Court which was used by the rich and the famous. The was cafe and garden on the roof terraces and an all female gun club. The store employed 1400 people when it opened. It was badly damaged in the second World War where its lower basement was used by the US army with a rumour that a tunnel was built connecting to the US Embassy.
According to Wikipedia the creator of the enterprise started work at 14 he made his way to become a partner in the department store of Marshal Field in Chicago where he is said to have originated the Christmas Sale and x shopping days left to Christmas as well as the customer is always right. He married well and indeed it is argued that his wife was his backbone with his life rapidly deteriorated after her death. He grew up without a father which is an important factor and his mother lived with him for the greater part of his life until her death.
Coming to London on holiday with his wife he realised there was a great opportunity for an American style store. He purchased the buildings in Oxford Street before demolition and having the store purpose built to meet his purpose. His reported to have spent £400000 of his money. However in the TV series he is dependent on a financial backer who pulls out and on another backer introduced to him by an aristocratic married women socialite with a young lover and lots of good connections/
In the BBC production his wife has been portrayed so far as the mother of his four children rather than a force behind the business. He is portrayed as an extravagant spendthrift, as well as creative and daring. It is accurate that he arranged to show the aeroplane flown by Bleriot after crossing the channel for the first time. He is also known as a womanizer, with in the TV show his first interest is a theatre show girl singer who he sets up in a house in St John’s Wood. According to one source he is alleged to have affairs throughout his married life. I know a number of episodes are planned.
He rented Highcliffe Castle in Dorset and had planned to build his own Castle on a mile long promontory Hengisbury Head as well his London home in Berkeley Square. It is here he entertained lavishly which continued after the deaths of his wife in 1918 and his mother in 1824. His association with Selfridges ended in 1941, and he was forced to leave his home. He died in 1947 ages 93 a poor man. He is buried with his wife and mother at Highcliffe.
The series also looks at the lives of some of staff in particular a young sales assistant. Selfridge visits a London store and is surprised to find the goods are not on display and therefore you have to know what you want and trust the assistant to show you what is in stock. He persuades the young woman to show him all the gloves available. She is sacked as a consequence and has a hard time with a drunk for a father and a brother unable to stand up to the man, In desperation when the store recruits staff she approaches Selfridge at his home he arranges for her to become a senior assistant which causes resentment with junior staff and finds herself at loggerheads with the section head until she discovers the woman is having an adulterous affairs with another senior member of the staff. She is pursued by a waiter in the posh restaurant who in turn is pursued by lonely females who asks for personal services which he is encouraged to provide by the restaurant manager.
The young assistant also allows her father to return home with the anticipated consequence that he returns to drinking and violent behaviour. She blackmails the recruiting manager to employ her brother in the goods reception and despatch department where there is evidence of a fiddle. The two episodes to date suggest can be described as an Upstairs Downstairs or Downton Abbey of the Departmental store world.
For the record Selfridges, still one the great stores in Europe and third largest is about to have a new lease of life with a significant expansion after adjacent property worth £140 million has been acquired by the present owning company. It in its present size it is half that of Harrods the largest store of its kind in Europe and which employs 5000 with 300 departments and one million square feet of selling space. Harrods was owned by Al Fayed until his retirement in 2010 when the store was acquired by the sovereign wealth fund of the state of Qatar with its Prime Minister attending the formal purchase for 1.5 billion half of which is reported to have been used to clear its bank debts. I have only been to Harrods a couple of times and both within the last 20 years. Another store which I visited in childhood was Gamages because of large toy department including its model railway. It did not survive.
I will do the rest of the TV the next film review and then it be back to the contemporary artwork.
I was out of meat so purchased three cartons of lamb steaks, 6 steaks for £10 a saving of £2 and two cartons of 2 stewing steaks at £7, saving £1 and 2 cartons each of three large pork chops at £3,0 each 16 main course meals. However I did not eat meat over the week. I decided on 2 of the larger chicken at £5, usually buying he medium size now £8 for 2 and which will each provide 3 meals, total now 22 as well as fancying new smaller carton of spicy hot chicken wings £ 2 each 24 main meals provided. From frozen food there was two all day breakfasts at £1,50 for breakfast treats, two more sausage and mash £1 each with only two sausages to add to the one in store planned for today but later changed mind and one of spicy wings 27 main meals given that if have about 15 portions of sprats as main meals also in stock although the small pizza also purchases is used on a Saturday with sprats as a special treat,
I was getting short of small bottled water and luckily was able to get the last of a special offer of 16 bottles for £2 noting that near the check out bottles of a similar size were on sale at 50pence each. I was also close to being out of Pepsi purchasing another of the 18 small can packs for £5.60. Although I have a large Christmas bought tin of mixed Crackers available I decided on two large packs on offer for £2 about half the price of the Christmas packs, debating if I should get more, Usually I get 6 eggs for £1 this time I purchased 15 for £1.50. I was out of spread so a pack of Clover light again at special offer £1, some pate 64p which i enjoyed as a late breakfast with two small baked rolls. There is pate left sufficient for another meal using a baguette or rolls tomorrow. There was milk and marked down loaf around half price which I was freezing in two slice portions so best use by date was not relevant and there was the indulgence, my crime against body of the day a ginger fruit loaf which I wolfed during the day, all of it. Total £66.
I then beat a hasty retreat as the blizzard commenced, with some settling. There was more snow later and then more on Tuesday but by Wednesday it stopped and despite the forecast there as no more overnight and with morning bring but cold I decided it was time to venture out to the pictures to see Quartet at Bolden at 2.30. The snow was forecast again for Friday and indeed after a slow starts it fell convincingly throughout the afternoon bringing a coverage of several millimetres. I attempted to clear the snow from the lane outside by garage because of the problem of getting the car in and out previously. It started to snow again so I retreated but had a further go this morning Saturday 10th but decided to leave the job half done when it looked as if there was a thawing process underway. This is the danger though if it does not clear, gets colder and freezes to ice.
I made up for the fruit loaf indulgence with good work using the sport disk and exercise on Wii for the rest of the morning about 90 minutes of good work and this was followed up by several good days with sports in the morning and exercise later. Having been two hours under the target average of 30 mins of good exercise I am back on target, The amount of registered use is higher because of activity which not intentionally contrariety to calorie burning.
I have become excellent at the boxing with four first round knock outs two second round knock outs and one 3rd round knock down that is seven consecutives although I have been knock down in separate fights twice. With each win my rating rises, at present 584 but so does the rating of opponents with 617 and 637 in the last two fights, This is most satisfying of the games to date given the frustration of my youth when I was not allowed to join the school boxing club. I have to record that I was knock out in the eighth fight three times against two and lost. The next fight later to day will be interesting! I fought twice in fact and both were hard fights going to the third round and I was knocked down twice. But by ducking and more sideways head movements I knocked out the opponent in both fights so it 9 out of ten wins and my rating is now over 600.
I have tried real ten pin bowling in the past but hand eye coordination, lack of experience and belief was such that I expected to be hopeless and was. It is the easiest of the sports games to play with a score of over 200 points for ten lane ends very good and this has been achieved once with 204 points and other good score of 174 to day 145 and generally in the 120 or lower! On Saturday I scored over 200 points again (202).
The indoor bowling does not require a lot of puff like boxing and tennis where I am at the practice courts only although gradually making progress having return 10 services five times and where one has to switch from forehand to backhand, I need to work out how to do a quick smash at the net for 11th return.
When I start a session I will fail to score or just manage a couple of hits but after warming up on Friday I achieved 0.0 6 10 8 10 6 which is progress given previous sessions. I am also on the golf practice range where I have made progress in two of the three practice games available. There is a 10 target shot across water to hit a target circles offering 10 15 50 and an inner of 100. It is easy to over as well as under hit and until to day the best score was 360 with 270 after that but after several not so good performances this I achieved 400 points a silver medal award knowing that with one error shot and two over hits I can do better. This will prove a great challenge.
There is also a ten shot approach practice on to the green with a score of millimetres registered under 20 but if you fail to make the green there is a basic score of 30 metres. I have gradually worked out that with the majority of holes the danger is to over hit and but on a couple including the last under hitting is more likely. Three days ago I had an amazing session with only one of ten failing to make the green and a total 61 meters and a silver medal award. Since then I been unable to capture the touch, getting under 100 only twice and in the 90’s. The other game is baseball where in timing is the art as well as striking the ball cleanly and getting a home run over 100 metres. I have once scored 3 home runs in a practice game and 470 metres.
I have completed 88 exercise session averaging 30 mins of real workout a sessions and have not missed the last 15 days after the break over Christmas and New Year, With the Sports disk I have therefore doubled the amount of activity a day and with preparations, weighing and breathers this amount to two hours where previously the only effort during the Winter months was to cook or the climbing stairs to the toilet and eventually to bed.
While I have not missed a night of Sleep Apnoea machine use since returning from the Paralympics in September 2012 and the average per night since getting the machine is now 7.7 that is over 230 for the 30 day cycle sleep has been a struggle over the past week, My weight has varied around just over 16 and a half to 3-4 to four pounds higher and with the cold weather I have had to much bread and potatoes in the diet. This has to change but overall the position is good for if I can keep close to 16 and half until the Spring another half stone to a stone is achievable and beyond that which is my aim, we shall see, I have used one of the chickens this week with a stir fry Wednesday and a curry Thursday with the pizza Friday There has been baguettes and rolls recently for the other meals with cereal or porridge for breakfast. Yesterday. I had two poached eggs on toast as a change, Roasted salted peanuts (3) and unsalted (1) in large bags at £1 in a post Christmas sale is the other culprit in weight reduction failure. After the last bags is consumed I will see if I can manage without such extras.
There has been much TV watching with many films and almost no writing and contemporary art project work. Mr Selfridge is a new BBC fictional series on Harry Gordon Selfridge from his arrival in London and creation of the famous store in Oxford Street. I have always been fascinated with this store since taken there on one of my first visits to central London as a boy after the end of World War II. The interest of the “aunties” was because the store imported olives and Italian salami. In general our circumstances prevented other purchases and visits were only made once or twice a year, I continues to visit on trips to London because of the childhood experience although not to purchase as salami and olives can be bought far cheaper in supermarkets and local delicatessens. On my last visited I noted that Champagne, oysters and caviar bar where one will part with £100 plus.
I commenced to write a piece about this and other TV programmes several hours ago but I then sidetracked myself into a different kind of piece about my attraction to the department of old and trying to find out when Kennards of Croydon was developed although I suspect after Selfridge had introduced the concept into the UK of A Store to Entertain. Whereas Selfridges always aimed at the better class of client Kennards of Croydon was a store for the people with a zoo in the basement and Donkey rides outside in the road leaving to Surrey Street and an orchestra for dancing to in the restaurant. There was also an announcer advertising bargains and events.
This contrasted with Grants of Croydon which was created before Selfridges in 1894 and remained traditional akin to the kind of store which he disliked and was regarded as the Harrods of the day. There was added significance because of the proximity to London’s main airport of the era, Croydon and the store provided uniforms for the RAF when the airport became a key location with Biggin Hill for the Battle of Britain. There are two videos around 3.35 of Croydon airport in the thirties and in 1938 on You Tube.
Grants closed in 1985 but in 2000 the Facade was retained and returned to its original condition while behind a multiplex, Gym, restaurants and night club were created. While there is a new Debenhams on part of the Kennards site, the other Croydon store Alders continued as part of a large indoor shopping centre behind the pedestrian High Street. Alders was the oldest of stores created in 1862 and was the third across the road from Kennards and less than 100 metres from Grants. Although the store was damaged during World War II along with most of the properties in Croydon, it never closed. However its fortunes have varied since, becoming the flagship for a major group, going into administration, a management buy out saw fortunes change again and a growing company which purchased a number of other stores and then disaster struck last year, went into administration and I understand is now closed.
My search for information about Kennards led me to Internet site of Francis Frith, the photographer, some of whose photos of Old Wallington and Beddington I have purchased. I discovered 56 pages of memories about Croydon Times past and seven pages of photos. This led to a site which contained photos and performance bills` The Grand Theatre, Davis Cinema and Theatre, Theatre Royal, Empire Theatre of Varieties, Hippodrome/Odeon and to the Frith site and photos of the areas Wallington, Beddington, Sutton, Purley and Croydon and then the two 3 minute plus videos of the Airport.
So it is back to Selfridges which had 100 departments when it was created nine public lifts and six staircase including a grand one at the entrance. The store aimed to attract more and a wider range of customers through displaying goods and providing a range of other services, including a library and a reading room and reception areas for French, German, American and Colonial customers, There were several restaurants including the Palm Court which was used by the rich and the famous. The was cafe and garden on the roof terraces and an all female gun club. The store employed 1400 people when it opened. It was badly damaged in the second World War where its lower basement was used by the US army with a rumour that a tunnel was built connecting to the US Embassy.
According to Wikipedia the creator of the enterprise started work at 14 he made his way to become a partner in the department store of Marshal Field in Chicago where he is said to have originated the Christmas Sale and x shopping days left to Christmas as well as the customer is always right. He married well and indeed it is argued that his wife was his backbone with his life rapidly deteriorated after her death. He grew up without a father which is an important factor and his mother lived with him for the greater part of his life until her death.
Coming to London on holiday with his wife he realised there was a great opportunity for an American style store. He purchased the buildings in Oxford Street before demolition and having the store purpose built to meet his purpose. His reported to have spent £400000 of his money. However in the TV series he is dependent on a financial backer who pulls out and on another backer introduced to him by an aristocratic married women socialite with a young lover and lots of good connections/
In the BBC production his wife has been portrayed so far as the mother of his four children rather than a force behind the business. He is portrayed as an extravagant spendthrift, as well as creative and daring. It is accurate that he arranged to show the aeroplane flown by Bleriot after crossing the channel for the first time. He is also known as a womanizer, with in the TV show his first interest is a theatre show girl singer who he sets up in a house in St John’s Wood. According to one source he is alleged to have affairs throughout his married life. I know a number of episodes are planned.
He rented Highcliffe Castle in Dorset and had planned to build his own Castle on a mile long promontory Hengisbury Head as well his London home in Berkeley Square. It is here he entertained lavishly which continued after the deaths of his wife in 1918 and his mother in 1824. His association with Selfridges ended in 1941, and he was forced to leave his home. He died in 1947 ages 93 a poor man. He is buried with his wife and mother at Highcliffe.
The series also looks at the lives of some of staff in particular a young sales assistant. Selfridge visits a London store and is surprised to find the goods are not on display and therefore you have to know what you want and trust the assistant to show you what is in stock. He persuades the young woman to show him all the gloves available. She is sacked as a consequence and has a hard time with a drunk for a father and a brother unable to stand up to the man, In desperation when the store recruits staff she approaches Selfridge at his home he arranges for her to become a senior assistant which causes resentment with junior staff and finds herself at loggerheads with the section head until she discovers the woman is having an adulterous affairs with another senior member of the staff. She is pursued by a waiter in the posh restaurant who in turn is pursued by lonely females who asks for personal services which he is encouraged to provide by the restaurant manager.
The young assistant also allows her father to return home with the anticipated consequence that he returns to drinking and violent behaviour. She blackmails the recruiting manager to employ her brother in the goods reception and despatch department where there is evidence of a fiddle. The two episodes to date suggest can be described as an Upstairs Downstairs or Downton Abbey of the Departmental store world.
For the record Selfridges, still one the great stores in Europe and third largest is about to have a new lease of life with a significant expansion after adjacent property worth £140 million has been acquired by the present owning company. It in its present size it is half that of Harrods the largest store of its kind in Europe and which employs 5000 with 300 departments and one million square feet of selling space. Harrods was owned by Al Fayed until his retirement in 2010 when the store was acquired by the sovereign wealth fund of the state of Qatar with its Prime Minister attending the formal purchase for 1.5 billion half of which is reported to have been used to clear its bank debts. I have only been to Harrods a couple of times and both within the last 20 years. Another store which I visited in childhood was Gamages because of large toy department including its model railway. It did not survive.
I will do the rest of the TV the next film review and then it be back to the contemporary artwork.
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