Forbidden city Shirley we
There is a Chinese on the Stratford road in Shirley that has been there for as long as I can remember - but also it hasn’t been open in probably 20 years!! I’m pretty sure I remember going in a few times as a child because my grandparents live really close by, but since probably about 2007/08 it’s been closed.
The floor is scattered with letters, the curtains have always been open, the sofas that were there 20 years ago still remain… but there’s nobody there!
The upstairs flat seems to have been taken over by pigeons too!
I’ve moved away from the area and I only go back a few times a year, but I looked on google maps and saw that in 2024 the curtains were drawn - signs of life
The photos show 2008, 2015, 2022 and 2024.
Does anyone know anything more about this place?