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Old 28-05-2008, 20:20   #31
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Asda is where I got some school trousers for Kirby Linds
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Old 28-05-2008, 21:55   #32
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Used to go to Tommy Balls a lot when we lived in Preston. It was well cheap when it first opened and the kids were small. Then i found it got quite expensive after it had been open a few years.
Never been to the Blackburn shop.
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Old 28-05-2008, 22:17   #33
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Used to go to Tommy Balls a lot when we lived in Preston. It was well cheap when it first opened and the kids were small. Then i found it got quite expensive after it had been open a few years.
Never been to the Blackburn shop.
The one in Preston has been closed for a few years now i think its a chinese restaurant! i remember going with you and all the shoes were tied in pairs and flung over the rails and there were always shoes all over the floor!
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Old 28-05-2008, 22:21   #34
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I remember. half the time you would wonder off and be clunking round the shop in ladies shoes fallin over the string.
Ah.......... Those were the day's
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Hey i still do that! lol
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Old 28-05-2008, 23:53   #36
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Thats the end of another era,,,i saved hundreds of pounds there when my kids were little,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Old 29-05-2008, 00:08   #37
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Thats the end of another era,,,i saved hundreds of pounds there when my kids were little,,,,,,,,,,,,,
it was a cloggers then granny.
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Old 29-05-2008, 01:23   #38
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Hey i still do that! lol

But isnt that when you are propping your dad up after hes had a couple of pints?
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I was thinking Tommy Balls must have been an ex Accy Stanley player.. duh!
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Old 29-05-2008, 12:00   #40
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Ooooh cashy, that hurt

Hey when i was a kid i loved my clogs.i loved making sparks....
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Ooooh cashy, that hurt

Hey when i was a kid i loved my clogs.i loved making sparks....
granny there aint that much between us, just me sick humour.
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Old 29-05-2008, 12:11   #42
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Dont worry i am on your wavelength...
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Dont worry i am on your wavelength...
Don't say that Granny can't cope with two of you
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Old 29-05-2008, 13:21   #44
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that shop in Accy is called David Spruce and is waaaaaaaaaay too expensive, the bottom Tommy Balls shop had an 'under new management' sign up ages ago, i havent been to the top one for years, i presume its not a new sign though Busman, i cant see them coming out of administration within 24 hours really


I think he meant "Passion for Soles" on Blackburn Rd.
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Old 29-05-2008, 15:05   #45
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that shop in Accy is called David Spruce
It used to be David Spruce, Flashy.

It is now Passion for Soles.

http://www.passion-for-soles.co.uk/
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