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Yea Wynonie you see them quite often on BBC TV these days:rolleyes:

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my memory is shot to bits but I do recall some names from the days when the pubs shut from 3 to 5 and you had the bods outside woolworth.. Geno, Kenner,Isacc, Dave Hill..these men were revolutionist in their time..the revolution of Cider!:D

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Which one were you mancie?:)

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like i say bagpuss my memory is all to bits..but do recall the good times beating up scousers in stanley park...then back home to Accy for a swift pint in the Queens. :cool:

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saw isacc yesterday wi his dog, geno was up bash last i heard, kenners still about, pops in canine occasionally.;)

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Issac - I saw him today sitting on the steps of the library. Not looking as well as he used to. I gave him a treat, to get a brew - hope he did! :-)

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I used to do that...in 1967! Usually went across to the Wimpy Bar with him, bought him a brew and listened to him rabbit on. Got a lot of my musical appreciation education off him, which has stayed with me to this day.

Hope the lad's OK...for people of a certain age, he's an Accy institution!

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What happened to the knife grinders that used to come around the streets, did they withdraw licences due to Health and Safety .. :eek: Or perhaps we are too well off now to get a knife sharpened, and just go out and buy a new one ? Or maybe everything is cut up for us now in packaged containers ?

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Think they went the same way as the Rag and Bone man kate, as for knives, being a tradesman I've always sharpened my own, and I still do it today once a week, prep knives and carvers that is

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That went when people got gadget fever and bought electric knife sharpeners.
I had a 'butcher's steel', but left that job to darwendosser because he once was a butcher boy at Slingers, and I never got the knack of using it.
Now I have an electric knife.

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Roast Beef just don't taste the same cut with a lecky knife Margaret:D

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hey alan isnt there anyway you can have those rishy beef barbeque crisps reproduced they were the favourite of all time in my area and have never found anything like them since. im sure they would take over as favourite flavour

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George Rose's daughter has a stall in accy market hall, I think she's still there. George is long dead now but he sold out to Burton foods just befor he died.

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Me, too. Flash Gordon. We used to sing-'Is everybody happy, yes.
Do we ever worry, no.
To the odeon we have come.
now we're all together we can have some fun.
Do we wever worry, no!
Do we help our neighbours, yes.
We're a hundred thousand strong, so how can we all be wrong
As members of the O C C (Odeon Cinema Club) we stress
Is everybody happy? Yeeeeeeeees. came the resounding
roar from all the children.
I just loved it.
Happy memories.

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Do you mean down King Street?

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Or was it Bull Brig?

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I remember going from shop to shop looking for Woodbines for my dad. Could only get Pasha-does anyone remember Pasha and why did dad hate them so much?

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Maybe because they tasted like arabs underpans before washday:D

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I had a spell smoking Sobranie black russian cigarettes......they smelt like camel dung...but surpringly tasted pretty good.

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You have strange tastes .... ;):D

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With a long cigarette holder obviously:D

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My son has returned from India with cigarettes called "Biri" -apparently they cost the equivalent of 30 eurocents for a packet of 25. God knows what's in them but he seems to like them!

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Thinking of Black Russian Ciggies one made by the same firm Sobranie Cocktail, all different colours

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I remember the long beatnik cigarette holders....you had to be careful dancing or turning corners........:D

I bet they had a similar problem in the middle ages with their fancy cod pieces.

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Do they still have those double courting seats on the back row in the cinemas these days?

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Aint seen them fer donkeys years.mind i aint been cinema fer about 20 yrs, but can't remember seeing em then.

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Possibly no need to do it on the back row now.

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Ya mean the swimming seats:D

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Where did you get that name from.

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Don't tell me I have worked it out It's to do with strokes.

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Hoody Blell, think about it.
Breast Stroke, what else.
Retlaw.

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Always used to call them double seats that claytonx, swimming seats, breast stroke on the back row:D:D

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I had a sheltered upbringing

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Ya same as me, its just that the big lads told me about them when I was young:rolleyes:;)

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I bet I know some of those big lads I'll tell you when we meet.

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Meet him??:eek: Atilla The Hun would be a wiser choice.:D

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Well Accys answer to trotsky ain't suffered too much:p:p:D

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I remember Blower's. One of the cheapest shops in Accy. Used to shop there and then go on to redman's and get fish paste and oven bottom muffins. Had two brothers who worked at Bridges fireplaces. Baileys was where the money flew about the chop over your head in little cups. Loved it. Happy days.

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Had to have a fag!

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Used to shop for vegies at Catlows and had a crush on the elder brother. Vegies were fresh and a good price. Put together with a leg of lamb from in the market hall with some oxo gravy-oh, boy!

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The Coop at the corner of dutton st was formerly Woolies , they used to fire cash up brass tubing on the ceiling used to fascinate me as a kid. Then went to Moffat's with mum and as somebody said on here they had things on wires with the cash in flying around. Used to go to the Coop for milkchecks upstairs they sold furniture up there.
Woody in church

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Sunday afternoons in Queens landlord used to play COWARD OF THE COUNTY by KENNY RODGERS to clear the place at last orders then off to the pictures watching 1 film then sneaking into another and out in time for opening at 7pm

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Rod Hull did an Accy carnival too.