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01-11-2010, 16:44
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High Street
just seen this on bbc website ..
BBC News - When was the High Street at its best?
its about the tv programme starting tomorrow night .. when they took a high street back to victorian, edwardian, 30s, 50s and 70s ... i think it will be interesting to watch ..
Anyway .. what 'time' would you want to go shopping in ... one of the retailers says edwardian times .. customers are saying the 50s .. when you got customer service and fresh food and knew where it had come from ...
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01-11-2010, 16:56
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Coffin Dodger.
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Re: High Street
fer me the 50s n early 60s were best, proper shops, staff who knew their jobs, polite n wanted to help yah, much of that has sadly vanished.
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01-11-2010, 17:12
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Re: High Street
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Originally Posted by shillelagh
just seen this on bbc website ..
BBC News - When was the High Street at its best?
its about the tv programme starting tomorrow night .. when they took a high street back to victorian, edwardian, 30s, 50s and 70s ... i think it will be interesting to watch ..
Anyway .. what 'time' would you want to go shopping in ... one of the retailers says edwardian times .. customers are saying the 50s .. when you got customer service and fresh food and knew where it had come from ...
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That looks absolutely fascinating, thanks for the notice Jen.
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01-11-2010, 17:59
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Re: High Street
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Originally Posted by cashman
fer me the 50s n early 60s were best, proper shops, staff who knew their jobs, polite n wanted to help yah, much of that has sadly vanished.
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I'm glad you qualified the statement by using the word MUCH not ALL
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01-11-2010, 18:26
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Re: High Street
Definitely one to watch ... thanks Shill. x
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01-11-2010, 18:36
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Re: High Street
Definitely the 60s for me
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02-11-2010, 22:19
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Re: High Street
Dang .. missed this due to over-run of meeting .. hope will be on catch-up.
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02-11-2010, 22:22
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Re: High Street
theres always iplayer kate ...
by the way i missed the first 15mins of it .. but what i saw it was interesting .. and im glad i dont eat the bread from victorian times .......
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02-11-2010, 22:26
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Re: High Street
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theres always iplayer kate ...
by the way i missed the first 15mins of it .. but what i saw it was interesting .. and im glad i dont eat the bread from victorian times .......
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Yeh, that's what I meant by catch up Shill .. sure it will be there at some stage ... hopefully, tomorrow ... nowt on on Wednesdays.
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02-11-2010, 22:28
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Re: High Street
Enjoyed the prog. It was a nice little insight as to how life was back then.
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02-11-2010, 22:29
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Re: High Street
theres something else on tonite .. its on at 10.35pm .. after the news .. taking your keys away .. which is about when are you too old to drive ..
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03-11-2010, 11:19
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Re: High Street
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there's something else on tonite .. its on at 10.35pm .. after the news .. taking your keys away .. which is about when are you too old to drive ..
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Just might watch that, before my Father died I was having a terrible time trying to convince him it was time to hang his keys up, because quite frankly he was a danger to the public and himself, very sad but very true
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03-11-2010, 14:46
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Re: High Street
Did you notice what it did to pull people into the Market square? I wonder if Gayle saw it?
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03-11-2010, 14:56
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Re: High Street
Just seen it, what a marvellous programme. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
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03-11-2010, 15:30
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Re: High Street
watched it, loved it, sawdust to bulk bread out....interesting
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