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Was the first one at the top of Black Abbey St. I think I remember going in there with my Mum back in the early 60's. Getting a wire basket, picking your own stuff and then paying for it at a till at the door????? How far out am I?

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Seem to remember going to one at Broadway end of Union Road in
late 50's. If Mum spent £3 it was a massive shop.Cannot for the life of me remember the name though.

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I think you are referring to a shop called "Saul's" . May be wrong .

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Sounds familiar

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Maypole I think.

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Yes it was Sauls.

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I remember Sauls and I left Accrington(more or less, came back for the girls,not shopping) in 1958.

Remember Maypoles but wasn't it just a big grocery shop, normal counter service, then?

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Pretty sure you are right about Maypole.
My wife always said that the first supermarket she ever saw was in Weston Super Mare when we were stationed there in '61/'62, she never mentioned one being in Accrington before we left.

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I am pretty sure there is a thread on this subject from way back.

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Put in a search but couldn't find one!!

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it is quite a while ago now, but I remember contributing and saying that Saul's used to have baskets of unlabelled tins very cheap(a few coppers) but you could never tell if you were getting stewed steak or pineapple chunks...this made for some very different teatimes.

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Wasn't the Maypole on Blackburn road almost opposite the Town Hall ? I remember them using wooden pads to pat butter .

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No, maypole was at the corner of Abbey street and Peel St.
I think the shop you are thinking of was Redmans.
The Maypole supermarket was housed in a building that had been Ali tyres place.....and the films changed twice a week.
I used to walk past it to school every day.....and I sed to stand and look at stills clips of the film stars.
Seems a million years ago now.

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Sauls

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I think that the supermarket at the Broadway end of Union Street was Tesco's and what is now Argos was originally built to be a supermarket[I][I] (FineFare I think) but the company was taken over by an other supermarket before it opened and the new company never opened it. It stood empty for some time before Shoppers World took it over.

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Did Wardleworths not used to be were Argos is, seem to remember it being up there but possibly wrong in as to exact building. ( I know it wasn't a supermarket )

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No, they were the shop next to Argos. On the corner of Bank St.
I spent many a happy hour browsing in there and mourn the passing of Wardleworths and Seed and Gabbutts(Blackburn)......another one of my haunts

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Wardleworths were originally on the other of the road and ran up from Bank Street and Wardleworths Printers were across the street at the back of the shop, Tasker Street I think.

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I remember them being on the corner of Little Backburn Road and Bank St.
I also remember them taking the shop at the Blackburn road end of Broadway.
I do not recall them having any other site....but then I am only a young thing(69 next time):).

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Wardleworths were definitely on the left hand side of 'Little' Blackburn road going up from Peel street. I remember my dad having a bump with his motor bike and sidecar outside their shop in the early 50's. I split my nose and was taken into a pub across the road to wait for the ambulance.

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Was the pub called Freemasons Arms or something like that? When I started work I worked just around the corner. I served my time as a printer with Fred Dalton and he had an old pub next to the Blind Institute the pub had been called The Ferrier's Arms after it closed as a pub a dentist Chris Heyes used it as his surgery but he still left the pub door on.

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I don't think you are wrong, I can remember a "Sauls" on Black Abbey Street in the early sixties.

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Worked at Seed and Gabbutts for five wonderful years before I had my kids. The Gabbutts were true gentlemen and always called us as miss so and so. I loved working there, being a book worm.

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My sister worked at Wardleworths Blackburn road shop straight from school, (1964); then for many years at the shop on Broadway; in fact you may well know her Margaret, Her name before she got married was Linda Hadfield she went to Woodnook school but maybe a couple of years below you, if I remember rightly her nick name was Tish.

As ever, stay happy, Your's Taddy.

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I must have known her as I was a frequent visitor to that lovely bookshop.....however i don't remember her from school.
I left in 1962.....it is usual for you to remember the students ahead of you, but less likely that you remember those who were below you.

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I remember the Redmans and the smell of freshly ground coffee. Sugar was weighed into brown bags and butter taken from huge slabs and patted into shape before wrapping . Bacon and cooked meats were freshly cut for you to the thickness desired. I also remember money was put into little containers and wizzed over to the cash desk on wires , the container would be returned with your change in. The supermarket was Tesco and I remember saving the green sheild stamps in books. I collected loads but still had some which were never cashed in when they stopped giving them years later.