Junk Tour Ilford

 First real junk tour since the lock down ended and decided to go to east London for a junk tour.

Ilford is one of the low tier places to visit, you can get there by bus from Stratford or to save bus fare, take the Tube to Gants Hill and walk through Valentines Park to reach the high street. Its a nice walk and you may even see a duck or a squirrel (by may, I of course mean, will.) on your walk through to civilisation.

The have a few charity shops there including a cancer research and a hospice shop. There is also a Salvations Barmy if you want some cheap gear, but that is the limit. There were fewer shops open and this time and a few that had closed entirely. What was open were doing deals on books and CDs so I've basically bought stuff to fill up numbers.

Cancer research had a few things on a deal. I got a few CD's and books including a double bill of Bill Hicks (Rant in E Minor and an autobiography- not the Bert Lahr one) and a strange Islamic book refuting Darwinism. The greatest thing about this is opening it up an finding some photographs of a random woman put inside. She looks Malaysian and seems to be part of a wedding, either the bride of friend of. God knows why they were stuffed in this book on intelligent design.

The book is a train wreck and if Bill's Biography is funnier then I will eat my words. 

The hospice was closed for lunch / restock so I visited Cex and saw my first PS5 in the wild. They really do look like a budget space heater. They wanted £780 each one and they had a few in stock so, if you want to pay stupid money for something with hardly any games, then Cex in Ilford is where you want to. I don't think I'll bother.

Salvation's Barmy was the last port of call, they had a similar deal on CDS there and got Tubular bells which is awful and New Order Power, Corruption and Lies both newspaper tie in's, when they gave away CDs in the mid 2000's to boost sales and such. They had a few records, but these all seemed to be Indie guitar trash so didn't bother.