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Save the Woolwich Co-Op petition

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(Art Deco by Tirfor)
Already signed up to get your plot of land at Heathrow? How about adding your name to a campaign to save Woolwich’s majestic art deco Co-Op department store from a council-backed wreckers’ ball? Sign up for the Save The Art Deco Co-Op in Powis Street, Woolwich petition, courtesy of We Love Woolwich.

Written by Darryl

13 January, 2009 at 9:36 pm

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  1. WE LOVE IT

    … thanks for the plug :-)

    Rev. Dolly

    14 January, 2009 at 1:03 am

  2. I’ll add my name to the petition as its a preddy building. But unfortunately I think Woolwich is a hole. Sorry.

    Stuart

    14 January, 2009 at 10:07 am

  3. I’ve added my name, it is a lovely building and a reminder of better times. I must agree with Stuart a real hole in the main populated by truly awful people new and old.

    Greezy Pimp

    14 January, 2009 at 11:11 am

  4. It’s because Greenwich Council think everyone hates Woolwich that they think they can get away with knocking it down.

    Woolwich has character– not in the way estate agents use it, but proper, genuine character, despite the council’s best efforts to demolish the best of it. It’s a town that has constantly evolved, having ups and downs but always hanging on. The economic changes that led to the big downturn of Woolwich would have killed lesser towns, and since we were so late onto the recent economic boom I think we’ll see out the current slump a lot easier than other places.

    The one that springs to mind is Aldershot, quite a similar town to Woolwich in a Hampshire kind of way– it’s truly a shit hole and has been since the 1990s, and it’s the people that make a difference. We’re not awful in Woolwich. The people of Aldershot, mind…

    Rev. Dolly

    14 January, 2009 at 2:04 pm

  5. This is great. I’ve been singing the Co Op building’s praises on Plumsteadshire. I love this building. I hope you don’t mind if I mention your Co Op posting on my blog.

    Doctor Pangloss

    15 January, 2009 at 9:54 am

  6. You’d be more than welcome, Pangloss – been meaning to take a closer look at the Plumstead blogging scene, as it happens.

    darryl853

    15 January, 2009 at 12:48 pm

  7. the pictures are incredible, if it could be saved and restored, that would be brilliant for woolwich, NOT A MULTI STOREY CAR PARK, woolwich has plenty of parking.

    the new wine church and gala bingo have both done fantastic preservation work on woolwich’s other deco triumphs, (also the lubetkin house on genesta road) the new wine church is open a lot, and the gala bingo is open for play all year, or woolwich/deco fans during open house day.

    shooters hill sheep

    18 January, 2009 at 4:57 pm


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