Shops In High Street Cobham

A Memory of Cobham.

Does anyone remember a children's clothing shop named Rosalind which was located on the same side of the street as the chemist which had a dentist's above it and near the La Capanna end of the High Street? I was taken in there during the 1960s for my clothes. Also I remember a small department store opposite (the name Gamages springs to mind but am not sure) which sold both women's and men's clothing. It was a lowish building but went back quite a long way and reminded me of Grace Bros from 'Are You Being Served'! Again this was the 1960s. It is now an office block I think.


Added 27 December 2011

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I remember both shops Sarah, and the Dentist! I was at Cobham St Andrews from 1960 to 1966 and we went to the small Dept store to buy material to make the school dresses! And there was sweet shop by the bus stop that sold hot roasted salted peanuts that you buy by the ounze. Christine
Hi, I remember Rosalind's and I also remember buying the fabric to make our school summer dresses, blue with little flowers on. I started at St. Andrew's Secondary School in 1970. Lynn Ede.
Yes, I too remember the dentist on the first floor. The mini department store was called Gammons. I vaguely remember some bit of my school uniform being bought there. It was replaced by shops on the ground floor (home furnishings and a jeweller at the last look) with offices and/or flats above. Originally the developer was going to build it in line with another Cobham 'institution', Penny's the ironmongers, which sadly closed c2015, but there was a campaign to keep the original building line of Gammons, which is why the pavement passes under the frontage in a rather continental-style arcade. Plus there was the bookshop, Forbes, in Church Street and Threshold Records - the building is hideous but the contents were exciting for a 15-year-old Reed's schoolboy! When I was younger, the treat was to go to the shop above Soanes Garage, which sold toys, foreign stamps in packets, jokes and (I think) bicycles. I wish someone had possessed the forethought to photograph the interiors of these places - so different from today's glossy but characterless shops.

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