do you remember.....?

[jelly baby]

Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

I remember it, but it was run by Warburtons then . Used to smell lovely when you walked past in the morning.mmmmm

My gran used to send me there for bread and barms before school, and to Feathers butchers in the market hall, where I still buy my meat.
We used to get freshly ground coffee at Redmans, ( now Brighthouse) and also butter patted into a block and wrapped in greaseproof paper.

[motherhubbard]

Originally Posted by jelly baby

'Big Ben' was the area around the back of the college on Sandy Lane was. Near the running track.

Yes! we had some fun down there, and also in Broad Oak works, there was a slab of pavement halfway up that used to get really hot in the winter, we used to meet there as well.
Fond memories of really good times

[motherhubbard]

Originally Posted by pussycat

; i used to hang around with the dancers at new era; they were good times back then ; theres nothin now for kids these days ; every wed night i;d be at new era ; anyone else go back in the day ; when nipper and start and lee went ;

Freddy and the Dreamers came to the New Era.
Leaders were I think Mary, Jack and Sheila

Loved the dancing downstairs.
Played Netball for the club, went to Austria with them, that was great

[Bee]

Originally Posted by panther

it was built in the 90's i think not the 70's....lol, ya div

Panther, it was built in the early 1980's (Gateway).

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by Bee

Panther, it was built in the early 1980's (Gateway).

Err...Bee..where have you dug this one up from? What exactly are you referring to?

[Bee]

Remember;

EMC Health Foods & the "Olympus" cafe being before Shaw's Amusements on Union St.
Poundshrinker being on Broadway.
JJB Sports being where Costa Coffee is now.
Our Price being in the Arndale.
Stuart Frazer Kitchen Showroom being on Union St.
Volvo showroom in Accrington, owned by Walker Farrimond & Stratstone.
CBS on Eastgate.
Birthdays being where 02 phone shop is now.
etc

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by Bee

Remember;

EMC Health Foods & the "Olympus" cafe being before Shaw's Amusements on Union St.
Poundshrinker being on Broadway.
JJB Sports being where Costa Coffee is now.
Our Price being in the Arndale.
Stuart Frazer Kitchen Showroom being on Union St.
Volvo showroom in Accrington, owned by Walker Farrimond & Stratstone.
CBS on Eastgate.
Birthdays being where 02 phone shop is now.
etc

Do you remember the Pickwick pub?

It was Accy's 1970's answer to today's Wetherspoons.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Do you remember the Pickwick pub?

It was Accy's 1970's answer to today's Wetherspoons.

it was better --paid fer very few pints in yon.

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by cashman

it was better --paid fer very few pints in yon.

I paid for a few that I never got to drink...now I know why!

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

I paid for a few that I never got to drink...now I know why!

Aint life a bitch?

[Tealeaf]

And yet another question, Bee.

Do you remember, if you left the Pickwick, turned right, and then walked diagonally across the carpark to come out on it's middle entrance on Union St, you came up right against the Accy Superloo? That was the thing that looked like the top half of a boiled egg, again sliced in half.

Well, I've been having an argument with a mate of mine. I say those loos were fitted out with Carrara Marble; he says Portland stone. Which one of us is right?

Please let Bee answer before anyone else jumps in.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

And yet another question, Bee.

Do you remember, if you left the Pickwick, turned right, and then walked diagonally across the carpark to come out on it's middle entrance on Union St, you came up right against the Accy Superloo? That was the thing that looked like the top half of a boiled egg, again sliced in half.

Well, I've been having an argument with a mate of mine. I say those loos were fitted out with Carrara Marble; he says Portland stone. Which one of us is right?

Please let Bee answer before anyone else jumps in.

The loos in question, for anyone too young to remember them.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by garinda

The loos in question, for anyone too young to remember them.

I remember them but did not live over ere at the time. Must have been on shopping trips as a kid.

[cashman]

Late wife left her handbag in those bogs, as she left a rather overweight skanker was goin in, she crossed the road n then realised n ran back..........No bag.........No skanker, her unopened wage was in it,as well as her purse.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Neil

shopping trips as a kid.

Same, and like me you were probably warned to stay away from them.

Apparently always old men hanging about in there.

Running their hands on the walls.

Discussing their hardness.

Asking people if they knew what it was, and if they wanted to touch it.