What is the funkiest thing you have bought on Portbello Road?
Nov 18th, 2008, 09:45 PM
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What is the funkiest thing you have bought on Portbello Road?
Hi
Just curious as to what crazy, unique thing you have purchased on this road that seems to have everything. Any regrets??
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Just curious as to what crazy, unique thing you have purchased on this road that seems to have everything. Any regrets??
Thanks
Nov 18th, 2008, 10:49 PM
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Hi M,
Last year I bought an estate piece of jewellery - a charm for my sister's charm bracelet from Portobello Road. It was a lovely gold heart - I gave it to her for Christmas and she was thrilled not only with the piece but the fact that it came from Portobello Road and that it was also an estate piece.
I think I could have spent a week on that road!!!!
Last year I bought an estate piece of jewellery - a charm for my sister's charm bracelet from Portobello Road. It was a lovely gold heart - I gave it to her for Christmas and she was thrilled not only with the piece but the fact that it came from Portobello Road and that it was also an estate piece.
I think I could have spent a week on that road!!!!
Nov 18th, 2008, 11:18 PM
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I tried to buy something on Portobello road but just couldn't find anything that I liked that I could also carry home. I saw a lovely iron bed frame and headboard but that was about it. I think I bought an antique tea spoon just to buy something. Maybe I was there on an off day.
Nov 19th, 2008, 03:15 AM
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On our first trip to London, in 1974, we purchased a gentleman's street sword. We thought it would fit diagonally in our suitcase. We were wrong. We wound up wrapping it in plastic bags, sticking a wine cork on the tip, and carrying it onto the plane. Can you imagine trying to do that today?
It still hangs on the wall of our study as part of a small collection of edged weapons we've acquired at flee markets and second hand shops over the years.
It still hangs on the wall of our study as part of a small collection of edged weapons we've acquired at flee markets and second hand shops over the years.
Nov 19th, 2008, 05:22 AM
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Caroline I know you are deadly serious. As much as we all love a wander around the "junktique" stalls I found the whole place a bit weird especially those toilets down a flight of stairs! Can you believe people sit in there just to peep at you through a hole in the partioning?!!
I never found anything to buy either.
I never found anything to buy either.
