A pound shop is to open by Camberwell Green where the Barclay’s bank used to be.
Sam Pound Stores is setting up a branch at the bottom of Denmark Hill, sometimes known as Butterfly Walk, almost two years after the bank closed in July 2021.
The pound shop company, also known as Sam99p, could not say when the new store is due to open.
Barclays said it had closed the Camberwell branch because 89 per cent of its customers used online and telephone banking.
It said that 51 per cent of its customers were using other nearby branches and that it only 48 customers exclusively used the Camberwell outlet.
In March 2020, Greenpeace targeted the branch over Barclays’ investment in fossil fuels.
The premises have been unoccupied since it closed.
On April 13, the Barclays Walworth branch closed and the Tower Bridge Road closed six days later on April 19.
In January, another pound shop hit headlines when social media users branded a new Poundland store in affluent Dulwich ‘reverse gentrification’ and ‘a sign of the times’.
Poundland told the News the shop had been popular since it opened, and that it would be selling posh products like Tattinger champagne.
Poundland coming to East Dulwich branded ‘sign of the times’ and ‘reverse gentrification’