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Leisure, Sport and Entertainment => Retail => Topic started by: Jackie Paper on June 28, 2023, 05:51:29 PM

Title: Sainsbury's Chatham: High Street and Pentagon + other Kent locations
Post by: Jackie Paper on June 28, 2023, 05:51:29 PM

Sainsbury's have a neat little archive of photographs from their old stores.
Here's a link to the one for the old Chatham store in the Bates/Bentalls/Argos location.

https://sainsburyarchive.org.uk/catalogue/search/branch/ref/p1081-chatham-127-high-street-1963-1976-sainsburys-branch/view_as/grid   

Title: Re: Sainsbury's Chatham: High Street and Pentagon + other Kent locations
Post by: Smiffy on July 01, 2023, 01:32:34 PM

I remember going shopping here with my Mother - as far as I know it was the first shop in Chatham to have automatic doors. As she got on with the shopping I used to hang around near them just to watch the reactions of people as they went to push open the door, only for it to magically open for them!