Stealing Good Times from Bad – 80s casual fashions in Tower Bridge Road

In the Face magazine, July 1984, Robert Elms wrote an article 'Good Times'. A follow up to his 1982 article 'Hard Times', it highlighted a shift in street fashion away from dressing down to dressing up and focused  on shops in the Bermondsey/Tower Bridge Road in particular. Here's a few extracts:'Down the Old Kent Road ...

Cat & Cucumber & Sham 69

Lunch recently at the Cat and Cucumber Cafe on Tower Bridge Road (corner of Druid Street SE1), Neil Controlled Weirdness mentioned that the very table we were sitting at features in a 1979 film focused on punk band Sham 69.Yes indeed 'Tell us the Truth', a BBC Arena programme, does indeed include a scene filmed ...