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I remember when every street had a corner shop. Our nearest was Freds Shop on the corner of Pansy and Eccles Street. He had a great penny tray. For a real treat we would be taken to the Mount shop, where Cartridge World is now, and could choose a quarter of something and you had to pass the jars of sweets over to the old dear behind the counter as they were arranged all over the shop.
Did anyone else play on their trollies round the back of Woolworths on the steep slope there?

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Rindy so cute!
Remember Isobel Winters for school uniform.

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On the left of the chip shop was a confectioners that made miniature loafs of bread like hovis they were good we used to share chip bits and bread, the newsagents was on the right of the chippy Aurther Smalleys he sold toffee as well.

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Back to the first supermarket ..... according to hubby it was called Saul,s , He thinks it was on either Bank st or Jacob st,the owner was apperantly a jew from manchester and it was in the mid 50s...

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Yes, I remember that too...if we couldn't scrape enough money for the baths and a bag of bits we used to have a penny Hovis loaf and a halfpenny spanish....you know the really hard spanish, and we used to jam the spanish into the bread and eat it like a sandwich. Nowhere near as good as a bag of crispy bits though.

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Sauls was down by the Black Abbey pub....I suppose it could be called a supermarket....but I don't recall it being very busy.......and yes he was a Jew.

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I was just on phone to my mum while reading that cherokee and she agree's it was Sauls but says was it not on Back Abbey St?

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He says it was a supermarket for those days , no shelves though , everything in boxes ..cor blimey the EHO would have had a ball ..lol.............!!!!!!:D

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He dosent know exact location tinks but yes def around that area .. think MP may have it ..

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Yes, everything was in boxes...and if you read my earlier post some of the tins had no labels on them......so it was pot luck if you bought those......you could be on prunes and custard or tinned steak...sardines and corned beef were a fairly safe bet though. The tins without labels were very cheap though. I think that is what my mum used to go in his shop for...to rummage among the bargains.

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The shop now is divided into two retail outlets...one sells beds and the other one sells hand made wooden toys.

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After asking where Redmans was, my mums just told me it was her first job when leaving school ..... she asks does anyone remember John Swanny (the owners) 100% salmon paste? :D

It was an interesting conversation, she's just been filling me in with bits that you've all been talking about .... like the baths were where the sunken car park is near near the skateboarding park and that there was a pub on the opposite corner called The Junction and that the chippy you remember was next door.

She also remembers the railway station and said that the red towers you can/could see in the lodge where the new complex is being built was actually part of the bridge structure for the trains that were going to Manchester :)

She also asks was it in the '70's when the sunken gardens were removed?

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Saul's was down where Kerr's is now. It was kind of the Aldi of its day ;)

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The old Accy baths, which closed in late '76, used to really scare me as a child. They had those heavy meatal beams holding the glass ceiling up, and what looked like circular saws with jagged edges on them as decoration. I learned to swim there thinking quickly, they could fall down and kill me!

I remember the changing cubicles were seperated. The men's were around the side of the pool, and the ladies were upstairs round the balcony. I can't remember what happened with your clothes though. Did you have a key and lock the cubicle, or was there a basket which you left with an attendant?