Anyone remember Jew Smiths?
 

Anyone recall the shop down Oswaltwistle that was half pawn shop/ half musical instrument shop where the guy nicknamed "Jew Smith" , due to the bad prices he paid, he was an elderly bloke who used to run it for a long time in 60's and 70's. Anyone got any more information?

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Kestrel X.

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Where was the shop?

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New one on me

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I don't know how much it's changed up there but as far as I remember: when you get to the junction at Church, do a left up to Ozzie and not very long way up, near a bridge on the right hand side was a shop, it was split in two, when you went in the front door there was a area on the left seperated by a corridor, where he pawned jewelery etc and then on the right side it was all guitars and musical instruments. You couldn't miss it. My brother Phil bought some gear there around 72 and I went in there a few times over the years - does that jog any memories?

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I assure you it was there in the 70's - did you live in the area?

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If it was on a corner,its possibly what replaced "Fredas Cafe" n tattoo parlour?:confused: that was just up from the railway bridge on right hand side goin up ossy.

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Could have been, but I don't know what was there before - any one who bought second hand music gear in the 70's will know of it as it was the only one of it's kind in Hynburn I think - selling 2nd hand music equipment.

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Born and bred kestrelx, doesn't even jog the slightest memory:idunno:

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I think this is where you are locating that shop - long gone now
BB5 uk - Google Maps

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dont remember a shop on that bit. just under bridge was the Station Inn, a fine thwaites house who i played darts fer, was unbeaten when they banned me.:D think the shops were on the next bit up from that pic?:confused:

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There was a chippy on the block cashy, with a cafe out back, think its been mentioned on here before used to go in there when I worked for Pilkies in the late 60s, there was also a little grocers shop a few doors down who used to sell single ciggies and a match when I was at school:D

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Ossy's like Roston Vasey.

A relative refers to a friend's first wife as 'the Jewess - a beautiful girl'.

Perhaps her old man flogged bongos?

:D

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Remember the chippy - went in there for supper with all the family the night before I left for the Far East - December 1963. My sister-in-law worked there.

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I recall it being on the same block as the Station inn

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Or maybe he played trumpet in a Jewish Jazz Band as apart from pawning jewelery he also sold brass: I mean trumpets and saxaphones etc. :mosher:

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A work mate of mine was the landlord of the Station Inn, name of John O'Donnell, he hung his self behind the front door when he found out his wife was cheating on him.
We worked together at both Batty Holt tours and Gilbraith Tankers.
That was until about 1970 when he ended it all.

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can't remember the landlords name when i went in, was mid 60s i think, seem to remember they won the league that year.:confused:

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Hi Gremlin that was a long time ago 1970, when I was still a nipper.

Perhaps it's in the phone book from that time, do they still have them in the reference library? That shop was there just as sure as the Bees Knees was!

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Never remember a Bees Knees in Ossy:rolleyes::D

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No the Bees Knees in Accy :hothothot

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think i recall the shop :confused:
it wur next door or next but one to the station pub :confused:

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i can remember a music shop before the bridge on the left hand side, had a banjo in the window, and either over the front door or very nearby was a stone lion.

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Yep that's the one - half was a music shop and then across a passageway he had a jewellry section. Don't remember the lion - that must have been some kind of Jewish symbol! :D