2008

SU6505 : Help the Aged in Cosham High Street

taken 16 years ago, near to Cosham, Portsmouth, England

Help the Aged in Cosham High Street
Help the Aged in Cosham High Street
The history of charity shops appears to date to wartime Britain, when several organizations started selling used goods to raise charitable funds. Today, the public can donate things they no longer want, which means they can be sold at very low cost, appealing to bargain hunters and ensuring a rapid turnover. They range from huge organisations such as the Salvation Army and Oxfam to one-off premises supporting a charity in that locality.

In 2009 Mary Portas presented a three part series designed to transform charity shops from, as she saw it, dowdy emporiums of the eclectic into retail powerhouses. Although some now are indistinguishable from for-profit outlets many are still delightfully idiosyncratic!


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Category: Charity shop
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Cosham High Street [87] · Help the Aged in Cosham High Street [2] Title Clusters: · Help the Aged in Cosham High Street [2] ·
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SU6505, 556 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Basher Eyre   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 30 April, 2008   (more nearby)
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Wednesday, 30 April, 2008
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 657 054 [100m precision]
WGS84: 50:50.6636N 1:4.0240W
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OSGB36: geotagged! SU 658 053
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North-northwest (about 337 degrees)
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