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Shoe shop with a kids hairdressers near Streatham

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cathie75 · 29/07/2010 19:25

A shoe shop was featured on a programme called Same Smile on CBeebies today. It had a hairdressers inside with a big fish tank for little ones to look at. Anyone know where it is?

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Crazycatlady · 29/07/2010 19:42

Was it Trotters on Northcote Road?

Crazycatlady · 29/07/2010 19:43

oops, sorry just seen you named it. I live in Streatham and have no idea where this is!

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cathie75 · 29/07/2010 19:50

Sorry the programme was called Same Smile not the shop

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Crazycatlady · 29/07/2010 19:59

oh I see! Maybe it was Trotters then? That's the only children's shoe shop I can think of that also does children's hair. They also sell toys, books and few party outfits.

Does this sound like the place?

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cathie75 · 29/07/2010 20:12

Sounds like it, thanks

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BikeRunSki · 29/07/2010 20:17

Blimey, Northcote Road has gone up in the world since I was growing up in SW11 in the 1980s!

Crazycatlady · 30/07/2010 09:38

Hasn't it?! My mum used to be too scared to take me in the buggy up to Wandsworth Common... 30 years later it's full of braying twats .

Nice shops though. I quite regularly stop by to go to Whistles or Keihls. Then scurry quickly away back to SW16 to escape the uber-mummies loudly parenting their children while ramming everyone with their giant buggies...

BikeRunSki · 30/07/2010 20:23

OMG, there's a Whistles on Northcote Road!!! I havn't been there since about 1995, but wow!

Crazycatlady · 31/07/2010 12:39

Oh yes, and a Jigsaw. But it's a Jigsaw for kids...

BikeRunSki · 01/08/2010 13:24

Crazycatlady · 02/08/2010 09:50

We're about to bail out of SW16 for the same reason. Bit worried that we'll end up leaving just as regeneration really starts to happen!

BikeRunSki · 02/08/2010 12:46

I didn't really bail out. I just went to university - hated London, couldn't wait to leave and went as far away as I could (Newcastle!). DF died and DM retired and moved away whilst I was at uni, so never went back. The only thing I miss is being able to get a train home at any hour of the day or night!

IsItMeOr · 02/08/2010 12:54

Yes, it will be Trotters.

Don't live there either, but at some of the judgeyness on the thread.

Crazycatlady · 02/08/2010 14:56

Gosh you're right IsitMe, my post didn't exactly sound as tongue-in-cheek as it was meant.

It was meant to be a humorous observation of the social scale that Northcote Road has ascended and the fact that a one pretty objectionable place is now much sought after. Oddly making it objectionable in a different way...

Sadly there is a particular breed of slightly unpleasant social climbers that is more prevalent here than in some other parts of south London. Shame, they give the place a bad name, and often a bad atmosphere. Have you ever tried striking up a conversation with people in Crumpet for example?

'Braying twats' was rude though.

IsItMeOr · 02/08/2010 16:24

I was having a "moment" when I read it, and clearly took umbrage. Very gracious of you Crazycatlady .

I've not been in Crumpet - is it good? I tend to just go for Trotters and then head home again. They've always been lovely in there, but I've only really spoken to the shop assistants, not the other shoppers.

Crazycatlady · 02/08/2010 17:21

Crumpet does the most delicious homemade scones I've ever had. And really nice sandwiches and cakes. Good choice for the littlies. But it is a bit over the top and loud and often full of slightly fraught looking parents... you have to pick your timing carefully!

BikeRunSki · 02/08/2010 19:52

Hope I am not being judgey - just amazed at some of the businesses I am hearing about in my old stamping ground (grew up in SW11 in 1980s, and making assumptions that because it now has a Whistles and a Jigsaw (for kids!) that it must have a somewhat higher socio-economic standing than it did when it was full of dodgy takeaways, barbers and tat shops in the 1980s.

londondee · 07/08/2010 20:37

Yes it certainly has changed! There's a Cath Kidston too don't you know!

Cathi75, hope you find the hairdresser/shoe shop?

basildonbond · 09/08/2010 22:19

there's also Sally's children's hairdressers a little further down Northcote Road (away from Clapham Junction end) - my hairdresser-phobic ds1 loved her :)

Blu · 24/09/2010 18:13

Willi B on Clapham Pavement - that was maybe is/) a children's hair salon that also sellls lovely children's shoes.

It has a sort of retro look - is that it?

DilysPrice · 24/09/2010 18:21

I would recommend Sally's on Northcote Road too - she cuts at the speed of lightning, has toys, goldfish and a DVD player in front of the chair - it was the only place where DS would sit still when he was little. Also only 30 seconds from the FARA children's charity shop, where you can stock up with the aformentioned Jigsaw children's clothes once the yummy mummys' offspring have worn them once.
The place on The Pavement is now a beauty salon I think.

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