Pullen Shops
Pullen also opened a series of general hardware shops, selling a wide range of products . These included his own brand of bleach "Pulbro", "Pink" parafin, wallpapers and paints, DIY and home appliances, cutlery and crockery, dustbins and ice-creams . Branches covered south London, the first of these being on Catford Broadway. Pullen also owned and rented out many lock-up garages. Pullen became a millionaire and he enjoyed his wealth, and by July 1965 had bought his first new Rolls-Royce - Silver Cloud III Coupe from James Young, a luxury coachbuilder located in Bromley. A car lover, Pullen owned a stable of many of the Grand Tourer automobiles of the period, including Audis, BMWs, Jaguars and Jensens
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“Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)