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Was chatting to @Digger about Gillot in the 50s how, according to his Dad, they had the site now occupied by Edwardes, and another nearby somewhere nearer Camberwell Green ish.
Perhaps Harrison had a shop and workshop, sort of thing, at two addresses 23 & 41, not all the addresses from 23 to 41?
In other news I saw an RO Harrison with mostly Simplex (and Red Lyotard pedals in good nick!) going for a song at Deptford market week before last. Red paint looked like 80s/90s redo, crap decals, frame more likely 60s at a guess. Anyone here pick it up?
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Thanks that's great to see. I hadn't even thought about it but 23-41 does seem big! Rereading some classiclightweights articles (on the wayback, links below) there's this comment from his daughter:
"The business prospered and another very large shop was leased for retail trade at no. 23 Queens Road Peckham. This property provided spacious living accommodation which the family moved into in 1938, moving from their second house in Kidbrook."
Classic builders:
http://web.archive.org/web/20200124150141/http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/harrison.htmlReminiscences of daughter / grandaughter:
http://web.archive.org/web/20191226005704/http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/harrison2.htmlThe 1949 catalogue is here:
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/Harrison-RO_main.htm
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Enjoyed this thread, bike looks outstanding.
Set me off on one of my nerdy map missions to find out where the shop was as 23-41 Queens Road, Peckham, which seems huge! As far as I can tell the buildings no longer exist today but map is from 1951. I dont know London well, I imagine shop front was below residential? Photograph from 1955 suggests that was the case.
Anyway, maybe no one else is interested haha great effort on the build.
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