Elephant & Castle

I say give Elephant and Castle shopping centre a break! At least it’s not full of chains ;) And, there’s an adorable pink elephant on top — brilliant!
I saw the positive in the place when I popped into Boots yesterday to get some photos printed (tip! South London Boots with photo printing machine) and am surprised at all the negative press it’s received here. There’s popcorn, and music and lots of little shops with anything you’ll ever need for very bloody cheap. It reminded me of my beloved Brixton market indoors! Sure, I won’t be running back to hang out here (or any shopping centre for that matter) but it’s got a certain je né said quoi, it’s bustling with people who obviously like it so I was sad to hear of plans to redevelop it. What’ll happen to the fantastic pink elephant? And all the people running the shops?
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Holy Sh*t, this place is depressing. I only went in to use the loo and came out wanting to kill myself.
I thought my local shopping centre was bad (Kingland Centre in Dalston) but this place makes it look like Westfield in comparison.
If you’re local to the area I suppose you could use the Tesco or the superdrug but otherwise avoid like the plague.
AND the toilets cost 20p! What is it with charging people to use toilets in dreadful shopping centres? None of the nice ones do.

Sadly there really isn’t much to say. It’s functional. You can pop in and pick up some deodorant if you forgotten to put some on, or collect your prescription, but like I said, it doesn’t really do much than what it says on the tin. A bit like a Ford really, assists you in your journey from A to B, but you’re not exactly selling ticket to show off the bodywork.

Is this a shopping mall? Really? What a dump! However some of the cheapo shops can be useful… but with so many pound shops just down the street, i don’t think i’ll have any need to come here.
The building truely is an eye sore, and it amazes me that they painted it from the horred pink, but never bothered to properly renovate it. So an eye sore it stays.
O-​well, i’m sure i’ll find some reason to shop here anways!

Cheap!
So half the stores in this mall are closed and it is a fairly old building. One lazy afteroon my boyfriend and myself stumbled ino this place. I must say this place was very useful to me because I have recently moved to London, so I was able to find many cheap house hold items i.e. laundry basket, hangers, etc. They have stores like Price Mart, Pound store, Tesco, Boots, Lloyds, etc. I am sure that my poor boyfriend who had to carry bags back with me was grateful with myself that the mall is right in front of the tube station.