Ilford C & A Store
A Memory of Ilford.
I remember working on the C & A store in appoximately 1964 I think, from start to finish, all the electrical work, it brings back many happy memories for me. Is it still standing? It was said a cinema stood there prior to C & A being built, which was bombed during the Second World War, and it was said to have had a ghost from that time on.
Denno
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08 August 2010
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When the wonderful C & A store opened up I was delighted! I was a teenager and it was the first of it's kind, where you could browse around and try on clothes without sales assistants troubling you.
I thought that the Ilford C & A store opened in 1961. But I can't seem to be able to verify this.
C & A was knocked down years ago, to make way for Ilford's new "Exchange" shopping centre.
I would have liked to have had a "ghost" experience.
I still miss the demise of all the C & A stores in U.K. There are some in different parts of the world, but they are never like our good old British ones!
If any one can verify the year of the opening of Ilford C & A, I would be most grateful, as I want to mention it in a book I am writing.
Thanks for reading this, I don't usually go on blogs.........Daisy