Does anyone remember in ossy

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by bondi38

Dont remember that one John please enlighten me is it in in the gobbiners book i buy all the books but not seen that one .
Look forward to knowing that information.

Been looking for mine Marian, and as usual can't find it when I want it

[BERNADETTE]

Originally Posted by cashman

don't know that shop bernie,unless ya mean the hire shop? if so i'm sure it was a bit further up. but wouldn't put me house on,its a long time ago,n i wasn't much of a shopper in them days, yeh bondi yer mam should hopefully remember it,bless her.

Yep was the hire shop I was meaning

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jaysay

There was one down near the Palladium on the corner of Collier Street Rindi and the if I remember rightly the one where your Dad had the night club had a Tailors and Hardware as well as food

There was one on Catlow Hall St, at the bottom of Fielding Lane, and one up Stanhill. I can't remember where the other one was, maybe the West End.

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by garinda

There was one on Catlow Hall St, at the bottom of Fielding Lane, and one up Stanhill. I can't remember where the other one was, maybe the West End.

The one at the bottom of Fielding lane was never a coop, I lived nearby on Hornby St (as did your dad and family) - it was a privately owned grocery

[garinda]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

The one at the bottom of Fielding lane was never a coop, I lived nearby on Hornby St (as did your dad and family) - it was a privately owned grocery

Well I'm wrong. Wasn't there a few shops? I can remember two being there, besides the one actually on Fielding Lane.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

The one at the bottom of Fielding lane was never a coop, I lived nearby on Hornby St (as did your dad and family) - it was a privately owned grocery

it was the last owners i think they were, are people i know,who now live oer walton le dale way.

[MargaretR]

There was that grocer....and a fruit veg and fish(next to the phone box - opp corner)
an ironmonger(where chippy is now)
a clogger/shoe repairs(in a hut on the side street)
I dont remember a baker, but the smell of fresh bread was about because of the Continental Bakery (where garage is now)

[garinda]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

The one at the bottom of Fielding lane was never a coop, I lived nearby on Hornby St (as did your dad and family) - it was a privately owned grocery

I've had to phone my Ma up for confirmation that there was a Co-op on Catlow Hall Street, and she said there definitely was. She used to push me in there in my pram, and once took back some spuds back because they were bad, and was given a refund by the bald headed manager.

She also remembers getting Co-op stamps in there. It was on the opposite corner to where the chippy is, attached to what's now the garage, and they now make conveyer belts in there.

Incidentally what's now the garage used to be Continental Bakers, and before that it was the Co-op bakery.

Other small Co-ops in Ossy were over the West End, up New Lane, over on Harvey Street, and the one up Stanhill, which is now the first house up after the James Hagreaves memorial gardens.

I also had to listen about what became my Dad's old disco being the old Co-op shoe shop, across the road being the Co-op hardware shop, managed by Tony Perkin's mum. As well as the grocers, tailors, furniture store and butchers, and the function room, which were all part of the main Co-op building.

I deserve a 'divvy' for having to listen to all that.

[garinda]

Oh finally, there was another Co-op in Ossy, in what's now the Furniture Clinic.

[MargaretR]

That coop must have arrived after I left in 1961
My memories are from 1942 - 61 (before your arrival )
But I do remember it as a bakery before it went Continental - I recall watching the big dough mixing/kneading bowls in use - the workers let a few kids in to watch.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

That coop must have arrived after I left in 1961
My memories are from 1942 - 61 (before your arrival )

That did cross my mind.

We lived in my grandparent's old house from '63-'67 before moving up Stanhill.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by garinda

I deserve a 'divvy' for having to listen to all that.

worry not rindy,you are a divvy.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by cashman

worry not rindy,you are a divvy.

Good.

When's 'divvy day', so I can cash myself in?

[garinda]

I've mentioned earlier that at one time Ossy Co-op paid out the biggest dividend in the whole country.

My grandparents used to tell me tales that 'divvy day' was like the Wild West, with people staying off work, and running up the road to spend their share of the Co-op's profits in one of the town's many pubs...if they hadn't signed the pledge.

[MargaretR]

I remember queuing around the block(Union Rd) with my mum, waiting for the payout.