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- A slightly different episode this week: we are seeking any further information about the origins and ownership of this bookshop, along with your memories of it. Caught on our camcorder footage from 1995 is another former Ilford institution - Edward Terry bookseller. For around 30 years it traded on Roden Street, renamed Chapel Road as part of the town centre redevelopment in the mid-80s. It was a treasure trove of second hand books which surrounded you as you entered. There was something there from all genres and for all ages. What are your memories of Edward Terry?
With thanks to Stephen Hargadon, Ilford Historical society and the members of the Growing Up in the Ilford Area Facebook group. - บันเทิง
I remember well going in here in the late 80s. My teenage self going straight for the romance novels, then I'd be back for more a couple of weeks later 😆 lovely friendly Guy he was.
He seemed to have a ready supply of romance it seems 😄Nice that he knew how to treat his customers to keep them coming back!
I lived Ilford till 90s born raised... Went week ago... Change so much
There has certainly been a lot of change since then. Much less variety of shops sadly.
Quality of shops have declined since the 90s unfortunately
@@awsanteina5152 it seems to be a bit of a national affliction
My dad who is a real bookworm used to frequent Edward Terry's shop years ago. He knew Ben, the main shop man and they were good friends.
Ah I never knew about Ben. Thanks @storm3698 that's helpful
Do you remember, in the old chapel across the road, there used to be a bookseller there every Saturday - this would have been the mid 1990s. I moved away by 1998, and I doubt the business still exists today as the man who ran it was quite elderly. Your dad might recall it, storm3698
@@alangiles2763 I remember going to the bookseller inside/upstairs at one of the chapel wings, late 80s. Whether it's the same place as you're referring to I'm not sure, but there was anaglypta wallpaper on the walls and books piled all over the place.
@@IlfordRetro Thank you - yes that is the one. All those lovely little unexpected places in Ilford and Seven Kings were so interesting - along near Seven Kings station there was a small row of shops, long demolished. One was called J. Ruth and he sold radio parts - when I was a boy in the late 60s I was often in there. These days it is just a grass embankment, and it has been since they unnecessarily did all that demolition. The area has just gone off terribly.
@@algiles881 I must admit that J Ruth is a new one on me but it does seem a shame that the space is no longer used for independent shops like it once was. You're right that many of the nooks and crannies and shops to get lost in have disappeared. In a similar (but not quite the same) way, there's the house clearance place called 'Giant Indoor Market & Boot Fair' (formerly Malvern Carpets) on High Road, Goodmayes which always had a second hand gem to discover. I'm not sure whether this has recently closed for good though.
Edward Terry was going in the sixties - I have strong memories of going there, my aunt worked at the Ilford films factory that was opposite (torn down in the late seventies, now replaced by Sainsbury's) My sister and I would often meet her at dinner time, I was treated to a selection of Marvel Comics they always seemed to display.
Thanks for those vivid memories from back in the 60s, it adds to the romance of this olde worlde bookshop. The fact that it had Marvel comics too shows how versatile it was. Like you describe, Ilford was full of 'treat shops' in years gone by, places where your parents could take you at the end of a day and buy you something. The variety of offerings in towns these days isn't what it used to be.
Changes are made but memories will never be forgotten
well said
I was a frequent visitor to Edward Terry in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I bought many books there over time. I also purchased back issues of 'Shooting Times', not because I was interested in the subject but because they had 'Benson and Hedges' adverts with 'Gold' phrases and themes in them and picturesque scenes - 'Golden Memories', 'A little Gold always does you credit' etc. I remember explaining to the owner (Mr Terry?) why I was buying them and he was somewhat bemused. But guess what? I still have them in scrapbooks 50 years later.
Off topic, but I wondered whether a feature on the parades of shops at Aldborough Road, Seven Kings could be done? I have never seen a clear 60s/70s photo showing the parade adjacent to Brancaster Road which used to have a VG Foodstore on the corner run by Mr Baldwin.
I know exactly what you mean about collecting magazine adverts for their quality imagery. Sometimes adverts capture the imagination and I went through a phase of collecting car adverts which I thought looked so aspirational and in idyllic settings. Great memory you have to remember the slogans from them. Your the first to point out the parade on Aldborough Road - I haven't seen an old photo of that area either, not even a more recent one from a resident for example. Unfortunately we (father and I) didn't get up that way with our camera in the late 70s/early 80s when we started taking photos. But your suggestion is a good one and there is definitely a case for featuring Followers Photos in the future (?) if they are submitted for use and enough information can be found out. I wonder if anyone else remembers Mr Baldwin and know what happened to him.
I have a vague recollection that, for a while, the shop was run by a man with Dwarfism, known only as Terry. The people who put up the signage for him could have made a mistake, giving rise to the “Dward Terry” shop name that you have recalled.
That is an interesting suggestion!
I was born and brought up in Barking, so my parents and I often went to Ilford for shopping in the 70s and 80s. Our surname was Terry, and I used to wonder if we were related to him. Now I can check on Ancestry, and it seems that he isn't related as far as I can see.
Thanks for your memories of going to "Terry's" It's really nice to hear that, although you found no direct link, you were able to look this up and check after all. I supose that's one good thing about the passing of time and development of technology. It was always nice to go to a neighbouring town for shopping wasn't it, and in those days each town had something a little bit different from the next. Very happy times.
I remember Brian, he was there in the late 80s early 90s. Prior to him, a miserable old boy was there. Brian always joked if he stopped selling and exchanging Mills and Boon books he’d close down. 😆
Nice to hear of someone who knew Brian and when he was there; he must have known every romance reader in Ilford at one point 🤣