Closed when the owner, Victor Jamilly, died January 2007, aged 79. The staff moved on and opened Squadron HQ in 121 Kentish Town Road. Some sources give the opening date as 1947, but possibly that was when the business started, perhaps at market stalls or another shop. An article from the Independent in 1998 gives a feel of what the shop was like then.
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Laurence Corner Army Surplus
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Laurence Corner Army Surplus
Laurence Corner On this site was the famous chic Army Surplus store, which sa...
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Private Farquar Shaw
The Highland regiment, the Black Watch, had been marched down from Scotland to Finchley where, hearing rumours that they were to be sent to fight in America, about 100 soldiers went absent without ...
1 memorial
Sir Keith Park
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1 memorial
Thos. F. Baldwin
Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers
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1 memorial
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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