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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H. Prior
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
H. A. Webb
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
War dead, Other war
1 memorial
Surrey Yeomanry
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1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Corporal Frederick John Henry Barrett
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War dead, WW2
1 memorial
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Department of National Heritage
Created on 11 April 1992. By 2013 it had become part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which sponsors English Heritage.
1 memorial
Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria
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11 memorials
Corporation of the City of London
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181 memorials
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