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The Semiconductor Archives, 48 Deptford Broadway, Borough of Lewisham, London SE8, 2002 • Forbidding-looking emporium claiming to source obsolete tech components. There’s even something sinister about using the word “facsimile” rather than fax, and having a specially-customised stripy black burglar alarm (yes, I notice these things). This scary “shop” was still there in 2012, though a blog here suggests it was empty and up for redevelopment.

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Postcard Cafe says:

2013/11/03 at 09:33

This shop front is a real gem. 🙂

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- Vici MacDonald says:
  
  2013/11/04 at 16:48
  
  It really is quite bizarre!
  
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Stuart says:

2013/11/24 at 12:04

Who couldn’t like that alarm box with its DIY ‘sarge’ stripes!

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- Vici MacDonald says:
  
  2013/11/25 at 01:22
  
  Pity I didn’t take a close-up for the Burglar Alarm blog!
  
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Stuart says:

2013/11/25 at 12:09

Shame 🙂

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By Vici MacDonald
On 2013/11/03
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2002, Borough of Lewisham, London, SE8, Shopfront Elegy

electrical, grimness, letterbox, secondhand

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