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#1 2021-10-26 17:32:26
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Ivy Shop on Instagram
I posted this today - https://www.instagram.com/p/CVgDz6gLNpM/?utm_medium=copy_link
Come on in! The water's lovely
#2 2021-10-27 01:30:15
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Re: Ivy Shop on Instagram
Try as I might I cannot get to grips or come to terms with this stuff.
It's a bit like meandering around the Chiltern Street website, where the prospective buyer is told how 'iconic' (or whatever) the item is.
I admit I might be missing out. But I have my own, Luddite take on things. 'Fantasy Ivy': the mood: living the dream/s inside my own head - just as with that 'makebelieve' London or NYC (or New England or the Rome of 'Dolce Vita').
#3 2021-10-27 02:30:20
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I have a few photos of the old place myself, as I worked the last day of trading, I knew Ian from Harrington who had taken it over as IS had lost interest. I worked the last day for nothing because I loved the place, I just took a few trinkets home.
#4 2021-10-27 02:35:05
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Mm, you mean advertising bits and bobs? I once found an old Sebago sign in an obscure 'antiques' centre that was on its last legs. John Simons showed me a piece of Kangol advertising he'd picked up at a car boot. I have a framed 'Arrow white shirts' sign on my basement wall. Nice piece.
#5 2021-10-27 02:45:31
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AFS, yes a wooden Sebago Docksides point of sale, framed Sperry CVO picture (small) Chemise Lacoste polo (a size to big) and Cleve BD twill shirt (beige).
#6 2021-10-27 02:49:53
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Lovely. And what was the last day like? Just sad? Heavily discounted goods? Hadn't that journalist just been in with his wife and bought a Harrington from Mr. Lally? Someone from 'The Independent', I think.
#7 2021-10-27 03:14:22
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AFS, it was a sad day, end of an era. I felt sorry for Lally he'd been there all his working life, it was good JS gave him some work, wonder what he's up to now ? There was quite a few pieces heavily discounted and the journo (yes The Independent) popped in again to say goodbye.
I would say virtually everyone who came in (mostly old customers from the 60's & 70's) was disappointed that it was closing but if they had shopped regularly, it could've been kept alive.
#8 2021-10-27 03:20:57
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Wasn't it the case that a different kind of buyer appeared during the 1980s? A kind of 'Hooray' type? I get the impression, just from piecing together bits and bobs, that Ian Strachan disliked London and hankered after a life devoted to Coltrane and horticulture. I think TRS ('our Gibson') sees John Lally from time to time. I guess he must be slowing down somewhat (as am I, with an ill wife, diabetes, a dodgy back etc. - cue for the string section)... It was quite a nice piece in 'The Independent': genuinely affectionate.
#9 2021-10-27 03:39:24
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You can add men with pony tails and baseball caps to Ian's dislike. I was browsing in the shop late one Saturday morning, and there was a dubious character with a baseball cap looking in the window and I heard him muttering under his breath "you're not coming in my shop" which I thought was funny at the time.
I would say a love/hate relationship with London but maybe 2RS would know. Definitely loved gardening, I heard when he went down to the Forest of Dean, he worked at the local golf club tending all things horticulture. Whether that's true....
#10 2021-10-27 03:46:12
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Wouldn't be at all surprised.
Japanese gardens were mentioned here the other day. Gervase Jackson-Stops, late of the National Trust, is quite a (non-Ivy) hero of mine for his devotion to the English garden. I very much enjoy 17th century formality, just as I appreciate Anglo-Classical architecture (think, I suppose, Wren, Hawksmoor, May, Pratt).
Ponytails and baseball caps? Ian's instincts were evidently spot on.
#11 2021-10-28 01:51:35
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There has to be a certain amount of irony that TWR's post above has made it onto the JS Instagram this morning, especially between the twitter thread and this one. Tin-foil hat time 
#13 2021-10-28 02:12:15
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I had a glance. I'm fairly certain I have that picture of John Lally and -Kevin, was it? - tucked away in a drawer somewhere.
#14 2021-10-28 02:22:36
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Kevin Kavanagh AFS, a former Manager of Harrington. I knew him really well back in the day. He had an understanding of Ivy, (I read somewhere once he didn't) but working with John Lally improved his knowledge enormously. A few years after the IS closed he left retail altogether.
#15 2021-10-28 02:37:36
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Retail looks and sounds like hard work. Trying to predict what your customers might like/how much they're willing to pay etc. Mentally and physically exhausting I shouldn't wonder.
I suppose the online input helps with sales.
#16 2021-10-28 03:34:45
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I think Kevin told me he was going to be a postman, this must have been just before the IS closed,
#17 2021-10-28 03:37:15
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I think he missed working in the IS with Lally. He enjoyed his time there with him they appeared to get on well.