Pound Stop

Pound Stop, 32 Guildhall Street, Folkestone, Kent, 2008 • Genteel pound shop with DIY logo that looks like a dollar sign. It later moved (with same sign) a bit further up the road, while this became Folkestone’s one millionth charity shop.

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K&P says:

2015/02/09 at 20:48

hi – a bit unfair as we have only ever had 500,000 charity shops and Canterbury has even more.

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- Vici MacDonald says:
  
  2015/02/09 at 20:52
  
  Ha ha. Maybe the ones in Canterbury blend in a bit better.
  
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By Vici MacDonald
On 2015/02/09
2 Comments

2008, Folkestone, Kent, Shopfront Elegy

bargains, extinct, final closure, spelling and grammar

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