memories - Page 3

Margaret Pilkington · 10-07-2007, 17:18

Ooh, I used to work in the Peel Street shop......we used to get our potted meat sent down from the Stanley Street shop. This would be about 1963.
I liked Tom Slinger.....his brother John used to try to get me to go out with him....but I wouldn't do. Work and personal relationships never mix very well, and I wanted to hang onto my job......my family depended on my wage (dad was sick at the time). Isn't it a small world?

WillowTheWhisp · 10-07-2007, 17:21

Slight thread wander about butchers - does anybody remember Amos on Cambridge St? (Corner of Water St) and Joss? We used to get our meat from there and I remember asking for bacon to be 'cut on number 8'

Margaret Pilkington · 10-07-2007, 17:23

I can remember being sent into the Market Hall one day when we had had a run on pork sausages......I was kind of sweet on one of the young lads on the stall......he was a couple of years older than me. He gave me the tray of sausages,wrapped up and when my hands were full he dropped something into my pocket and winked at me.......I was over the moon. When I got back to the Peel St shop (blushing like mad at my impure thoughts) I plonked down the sausages on the counter and delved into my pocket.....to find that the lousy blighter had dropped a pigs eye into my pocket......no wonder he winked.
Strange, I went right off him after that!

Royboy39 · 10-07-2007, 17:27

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I can remember being sent into the Market Hall one day when we had had a run on pork sausages......I was kind of sweet on one of the young lads on the stall......he was a couple of years older than me. He gave me the tray of sausages,wrapped up and when my hands were full he dropped something into my pocket and winked at me.......I was over the moon. When I got back to the Peel St shop (blushing like mad at my impure thoughts) I plonked down the sausages on the counter and delved into my pocket.....to find that the lousy blighter had dropped a pigs eye into my pocket......no wonder he winked.
Strange, I went right off him after that!

Margaret.....I'm not going to make any suggestions on who that might have been..........I would get into trouble again.

Margaret Pilkington · 10-07-2007, 17:51

I wish you would, because I have been scratching my head trying to remember who it was.......I couldn't really have been that sweet on him, could I?
Incidentally I remember all the butchers stalls that you mentioned.

Margaret Pilkington · 10-07-2007, 17:55

Oh, and by the way....my impure thoughts were not impure by todays standard....I was only wondering what it would be like to be kissed by him.
I never found out. But some years later I did find out that he was going to ask me out....but he got the cold shoulder after the 'Pigs Eye' incidents.....so it was kind of 'in a pigs eye'.

Royboy39 · 10-07-2007, 18:10

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I wish you would, because I have been scratching my head trying to remember who it was.......I couldn't really have been that sweet on him, could I?
Incidentally I remember all the butchers stalls that you mentioned.

I don't know but it would not surprise me if John had suggested it........He was a bit of a Jack the Lad.
There were others that I have not mentioned: Reg Gorton, Melville Ingham,
Reggie Watkinson, Suttons. Jack Lomax and Lens (Cooked meats).
I had the honour of knowing Johnny Nolan.

cashman · 10-07-2007, 18:26

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

Don't remember that one

was top of the block past the Dyers n Finishers, with the Stanley Arms on next corner across washington street.

Royboy39 · 10-07-2007, 18:35

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Originally Posted by cashman

was top of the block past the Dyers n Finishers, with the Stanley Arms on next corner across washington street.

Now I've got you Margaret jogged the mem a bit when she mentioned potted meat. We sold them heads and tongues.
Did'nt Walter Marriot have his cooked meat factory somewhere up there?

katex · 10-07-2007, 18:43

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Slight thread wander about butchers - does anybody remember Amos on Cambridge St? (Corner of Water St) and Joss? We used to get our meat from there and I remember asking for bacon to be 'cut on number 8'

Remember, but my mum used to send me to the one on Norfolk Street or sometimes Dixons on Addisons/Maudsley Street.

Gosh, knew all these mentioned and the families .. were a lot, weren't there..

cashman · 10-07-2007, 18:49

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

Now I've got you Margaret jogged the mem a bit when she mentioned potted meat. We sold them heads and tongues.
Did'nt Walter Marriot have his cooked meat factory somewhere up there?

yep places are much easier to get too by pubs n clubs

not sure where marriots was,n katex Billy Dixons was corner Addison/Dowry.