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Boho shops

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Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 06/04/2026 13:22

This is for 70s/80s MNers though also poss from 60s.

In Streatham there was a small boho shop selling ethnic wares and boho clothes, on Leigham Court Road, it had the painting of a woman with curly hair and sunflowers on the wall above it. Off the high street there was a small gift and card shop called Abraxus. In Battersea on roads coming off Northcote Road going up, say past Salcott Road there was another boho shop. In Gipsy Hill/West Norwood there was a little shop but part house (flat on top) that was boho ethnic. I used to love looking around these shops when I was younger. Guess the hippies have moved on.

But does anyone recall shops like these? Non commercial. Very counter culture. Smelling of incense, and maybe weed!

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Pieceofpurplesky · 27/04/2026 17:38

DominoQueen51 · 26/04/2026 08:18

@PieceofpurpleskyI remember Elouise. I grew up near Chester. That’s a blast from the past

Still there @DominoQueen51!

lovealieinortwo · 27/04/2026 17:40

@Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain thanks

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 29/04/2026 10:33

lovealieinortwo · 27/04/2026 17:40

@Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain thanks

The owner and her husband retired and moved away from recollection.

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