Closing down sale - kitchen shop - The Cut

just noticed the "closing down" signs in the window of that excellent kitchen/bathroom etc shop on the cut


went in there today to grab a few items before it goes


great shame .....chatting to the lady that runs it , she was telling me the rent has been put through the roof for them ;(

What a shame! I've been in that shop so many times! Even my 11 year old thinks it's sad...

What coffee shop / fast food chain / bookie are we missing that would improve the area by taking its place?

There's already some discussion about this over in the thread about the recent closure of the adjacent laundrette.

Neil wrote:

What coffee shop / fast food chain / bookie are we missing that would improve the area by taking its place?

Exactly. Grrrr!

Got loads of stuff from them, over the years. Really nice people. :-(

This is a great shame and very sad news - they are such a useful shop to the community and I always found something I'd forgotten I needed whenever I popped in which was frequently. I do hope they can find an alternative nearby premises to open up in should they want to. It's really sad when a shopping street has nothing useful to offer.

Thats so sad, it is a great shop.

spoke to the chaps that run the 24 hr supermarket under the bail hostel today about it and they said the landlords raised the rent for those places from £37,000 a year to £89,000 a year .... :(

There's going to be a protest next Saturday:
http://octaviahillwaterloo.blogspot.com/2011/03/protest-at-shops-closure-in-cut.html