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Thanks for the encouragement! I know the toy shop on Beckenham High Sreet - one of the few toy shops with things children actually want to buy. It might go bust with the rent at 30K a year but given that Green and Black are paying 35k for the restaurant half of their emporium - who knows? What to join me in my venture?

Thanks for advice I will certainly look into it. I think Just Williams in Herne Hill is best locally and that always seems to be heaving with shoppers! Btw, I heard that Iceland was going to become an M&S Simply Food store soon. Does anyone know whether this is true? I hope so

Its not as easy as lower offer because there's a 3 bed flat upstairs which isn't separated from the shop itself so you'd really have to live there or carve up half the shop to create its own entrance. Also it needs thousands spending on it before you could even open up as there's no heating and its all in a very poor state of repair. Think I'll wait until a better site appears - is the Starchey Gallery a permanent fixture on Northcross Rd? Btw, shipping costs are for shipping not airmail

I went to look at the former Unwins shop on LL and want to turn it into a toy shop. It's very run down though and the rent is very high I think thats why it's been empty for a while now. Anyone like the toy shop idea? I want to import interesting toys from US as everything here is so samey