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Great Britain Oriental City Shopping Centre - Colindale - May 2011

Nelly

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Oriental City was a shopping centre in Colindale, London specialising in various oriental foods and items. It is located on Edgware Road

The centre contained a large oriental supermarket, and a food court with a range of foods from different areas of South-East Asia; stalls offered Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. The food court was immensely popular with surrounding office workers and the North London community; and often became very crowded at weekends

Aside from the food outlets, the centre also previously housed an import game shop, a Sanrio store, and one of the largest oriental bookshops in Europe, called Asahiya Shoten. In the period shortly before the centre closed down, shoppers could find a tailor's shop, a jeweller, a hairdresser, a beauty shop, Chinese medicine shops, a martial arts store, and a large furniture store. Oriental City was also host to a Sega Dome arcade

Planning application was submitted on the 8th June 2010 to demolish the shopping centre, here are some snippets from the proposal...

1. Redevelopment for mixed-use purposes,with a replacement Oriental City to include a Sui Generis amusement arcade and separately a new B & Q and bulky goods store and a health & fitness studio which together should provide 500 jobs

2. 520 residential units (comprising 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom flats, 4% being affordable) located in eight blocks rising to 3, 6, 9 and 18 storeys

3. A nursery and primary school for 480 children

4. 1,098 car-parking spaces

The Oriental City in its hey day

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The menu at The Hunan Restaurant. I'll have the number 24 with a number 53 on the side,

Fried Frog with Pig Ear in Special Sauce!!! Nom Nom!!!

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Visited with, wait for it... Skeleton Key, Priority 7, Trog, Wevsky, Silver Rainbow, Space Invader, Obscurity and a non member called Ben.

Yup 9 of us mooching around the shopping centre, it was like it was open again

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Your reports mate spot on history pics im jelous ive gotten very lazy ;)

 

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This is very cool, I am pretty sure I visited about 5 years ago. Not sure though.

A new pin dropped on Google Earth. :mrgreen:

 

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Nice one, looks good. I heard about your eventful day here. :D

 

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It was one of those days that included just about everything ;)

Police, sec with baseball bats, naked Wevky's, the lot :)

 

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Nice, i used to buy lunch in there sometimes lol

 

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Was a great day, good time had by all, Flyboy give it a wide berth mate

:beer:

 

Wevsky

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Was a great day, good time had by all, Flyboy give it a wide berth mate :beer:
What he said..2 security with dogs and baseball bats..not a walk in the park aye silver :)

 
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