Australia is now unwittingly linked even more closely with the dreary outer-London suburb of Penge. Not only was it the locale of popular British comedy show Hancock’s Half Hour where the ill-fated British comedian Tony Hancock told us about life at Railway Cuttings before committing suicide in Sydney. Penge’s latest suicide victim, this time of a commercial nature, is Bunnings, whose Penge Do-It-Yourself warehouse, along with the remaining 23 Bunnings conversions of the 250 Homebase DIY chain acquired in Bunnings’ British disaster, will soon cease being Bunnings.
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