Sermads £10 Charity Challenge

[sermad]

9am - Convince the missus that running round london in search of records and leaving the people to sand the floors all day is a GOOD thing.

10am - Pack the essentials - London A-Z - GP3 - Headphones - £10 - Bugger forgot the tenner. Ok need to go to a cash machine.

Budget - £0/£10



On the way to get a tenner - what's this - it's a random junk shop on lower clapton rd.p



With a pram full of records.



Seeing as I have no money it is a good thing there is nothing there. So onto mare st - get some cash and into the first charity.



Some great crockery but sadly rubbish records.

Budget - £0/£10

NEXT...



Sense was crap - The sunshine lasts for approx for 3 seconds and as the rain comes down much bribery is needed to get moving to the sally army.

Budget - £0/£10



The sally army let's me down - However the missus picks up two brilliant architecture books for 20p. Grrrr.





Budget - £0/£10

So a bit further down mare st - the brilliant and mad junk shop by the canal is now gone - boo. So onto bethnal green - where there are actually no charity shops. Grab a fried breakfast and muck about waiting for the train.



Now in walthamstow (about 12.30 ish) - make the executive decision not to hit the charity shops on the market st as I know a little place which I'm 99% sure shuts at 1.

Leg it down the high st - Spot the muslim association charity - no records. Boo. Onto the sally army which does indeed shut at 1 - 15 minutes of panic digging later....



NOTHING for me. The little lady spends a pound on a lovely plate.



Budget - £0/£10

Resist the urge to hit the wood st arcade (full of all those brilliant characters/dealers as that is cheating) and onto barkingside on a very very very slow bus where they are 5 charity shops on one street.

First stop - SCOPE



Nothing.

Budget - £0/£10

The next door charity was closed so a few doors down is the Friends of St Francis Hospice.



Who are no friends of mine as I come away with nothing but yet again the little one bought another 'lovely' plate.



Budget - £0/10

Over the road are another two places - Haven House and the PDSA



Haven house is loads of fun - lots of terrible covers.









I kept going past the dross and actually pulled out a vv classic -



And a morricone classic -



Two pretty good records for £2 - The eagle eyed missus spotted a nice soundtrack and plumped for this one too.



And as I'm fond of a bit of sewing I plumped for some vintage patterns.



Budget - £3/£10

Next door to the PDSA - Nothing.

Down the road to the Barnado's store.



I guess the 'store' part of the title means they don't sell records. Rubbish.

Budget - £3/£10

Over the road to the Cancer Research.



Nothing.

Budget - £3/£10

A few doors down to the Helen Rollason.



Now I remember this place - Just a massive WALL of records. I start pulling out a lots and lots and lots of indian records - Not quite sure what they are all doing in east london (practically essex)...Nervously I ask how much they are..3 for a £1 is the response. Bloody hell. Brilliant.



























Loads of em have a sticker of an indian outlet in southall - I'm sure a certain vulture raided that place a few years ago...

15 records later - £5

Budget - £8/£10

Feeling pretty chuffed onto the final leg - south woodford. We have to be home for 5 and it is 3 so we are running late.



Nothing in the children's society.



Nothing in can er research.



Nothing in the haven house.

Onto the last -



Spot a small pile of records hidden behind some clothes - then another behind another pile - then another behind another pile - oh crap I've run out of time and have to leave about 500 records that I haven't even looked through. Gutted.

DONE

Budget - £8/£10

A great day out - Approx 26 miles and lots of records later - I've made a google maps journey to show my route. Images on flickr too.

[vladislav]

Well done. You did well with the Bolly soundtracks, Sholay!!!! Big bucks if it's in fine condition, Kabhi Kabhie good stuff. Sholay is a great album. vladislav

[john stapleton]

Game over!

[vladislav]

Yeh, I'd agree, on finds alone, this is the one to beat. Amazing finds. vladislav

Game over!

[sermad]

Err really? I just liked the covers...Haven't got round to listening to them all yet...

[Thelonious MOke]

Err really? I just liked the covers...Haven't got round to listening to them all yet...

Well, seeing as most other found fuck all, you walk it.

[ginghamkitchen]

Well, seeing as most other found fuck all, you walk it.

There you go, making a challenge a competition. Flipping good finds, though, but no more than deserved after all that leg work!

[Thelonious MOke]

There you go, making a challenge a competition. Flipping good finds, though, but no more than deserved after all that leg work!

Most definitely. But it was more a competition to see, if the charity shops of the country, could turn up the goods over a short allotted time period.

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Although I would like a ruling on the distance travelled. I could've added a bunch more shops to my guide if I'd know we could travel so far. Although no actual good records. Also I see NO receipts, or evidence of records in shops. After the DMT 'price tag' debacle, how do we know Sermad just didn't just....


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[sermad]

actually I don't have a receipt for this shop - you'll just have to take my word for it. I didn't do the challenge to compete - just have a fun day out - which I did. The brucey bonus is that the little one had so much fun she wants to get again and to try car boot sales - RESULT

[bazooka joe]

way to go!!! amazing finds. this is only the second one of these threads i've actually looked at. i'm hooked now!

[Dr Rubberfunk]

*holds up score card*

10

Excellent stuff Serms!

[jahshabby]

Marvellous legwork there!

[eclipsechaser]

dix points


loving the bolly you found and I have always been wondering how long it will be before I see a balsara.

[BestDressedChicken]

Great finds mate

So onto bethnal green - where there are actually no charity shops.

There is one actually. It's off Roman Road, on the road that turns off directly after the Buddhist Centre. It's related to the Centre somehow, but it's normally absolutely pants with regard to records. Some good books though.

I think you turned up the Bollywood LPs in Barkingside as the surrounding area has a pretty massive Asian community (it's where I grew up). Area demographics and their relation to finds might be something interesting to talk about - a friend of mine told me that the car boots out past West London are (sometimes) killer for reggae and soul because of the West Indian/Jamaican community in the West of London.

I was going to do this myself today and get out to to Ilford but now I can't as the f***ing builder working on my f***ing flat have got to f*** around endlessy and I'm not going to get a chance to get out for any length of time. AARRRRGGGGHHH.

[wayne]

Glad to see the legwork paid off in the end, some very nice records there! If they're in decent nick, they're also double-rare - scarce Indian records in good condition! Bollywood records did used to turn up semi regularly in and around Walthamstow when I lived out that way, but not so often that seeing them wasn't always a day-making event!

[jakartajive]

If you and the little one ever breed, what will the sprog get called, Serms?
The tiny one?
The miniscule one?
What?

Nice finds, btw.

[Monobrow]

There go my plans of raiding the charity shops of E17 - you and Jahshabby have already cleared it out! I picked up some good bollywood stuff at the Kashmir relief shop on Hoe Street a few months ago so Walthamstow is the place to be for those Bollywood lovers (Mendoza pay me a visit!)

[Rich Hero]

Loads of em have a sticker of an indian outlet in southall - I'm sure a certain vulture raided that place a few years ago...

...While a few more enjoyed a curry across the road. Easy as one, two, three... If they do come from there they should hopefully be in decent nick as most of that shop's records seemed to be old stock.

[Carlitos]

I got Balsara's plays "The Sound of Music"... Strange rendition with sitars, to say the least

Well done, Sermad, great records and great story.

[cellardweller]

Err really? I just liked the covers...Haven't got round to listening to them all yet...

pakeezah's good too geezer

great tales told

so how's sounds, or you busy knitting?

[Mr_Hopkinson]

woah



just been away for the weekend - can't believe how many challengers ( or competitors (?) ) there are!

GREAT find, Serms