The Narroway

This is the street containing my local Marks & Spencer, the one featured in this recent post. The photo was taken two years ago by Phil Gyford, one of his many good ones of Hackney scenes. There are lots of "Pound shops" in the Narroway. They are both unhappy reminders of how many hard-up people there are round here and also happy places for young children with pocket money to spend.

Comments

[Clare]

Yes, but now that Environmental Guilt is so ubiquitous that I'm finally succombing to it, I have these weekly battles between (a) let the child have the cheap ata, it keeps him happy and costs so little, and (b) What about the planet? Oh, and (c) I s'pose I should say No to him every now and then, just for the principle of the thing.

Where I live (a few years ago officially one of the ten most deprived areas in England; not sure if it still is, but not far off), every second shop is a pound shop. It does make me laugh when I see how much posh people pay for pans.

[Clare]

That would be tat, not ata.

[Nich Starling]

I went in to a pound shop recently to but some cheap prizes for something at school. I was actually amazed at some of the stuff in there. I cannot beleive you can make, package and transport the stuff and sell it for a profit at just 99p.