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Old 30-03-2009, 13:31   #136
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I had a pair of crepe soles once - they were great for rubbing out chalk marks on flagstones when you were redoing the markings for hopscotch.
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Old 30-03-2009, 16:21   #137
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fer my money the most comfortable shoe ever made! though not to great fer puncing dingles.
10 Hole Docks were better for that
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Old 30-03-2009, 22:31   #138
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Who remembers the "Polish" grocers shop in accy? 50s/early 60s was a top guy with a mustache, that ran it, forget his name or when it closed was on whalley road across from "Marshalls"
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Old 30-03-2009, 22:34   #139
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That deli was on Melbourne St, on the corner opposite Melbourne House, before it was demolished to make the dual carriageway.
They were a lovely couple who owned it. They were refugees from the Hungarian revolution (the 1st one -that failed)
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Old 30-03-2009, 22:52   #140
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That deli was on Melbourne St, on the corner opposite Melbourne House, before it was demolished to make the dual carriageway.
They were a lovely couple who owned it. They were refugees from the Hungarian revolution (the 1st one -that failed)
no i am not on about that one margaret, the one i said is polish n whalley rd, me mate knew him well n we used to go in regular, he was always giving us weird n wonderful things to try.
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Old 31-03-2009, 10:43   #141
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no i am not on about that one margaret, the one i said is polish n whalley rd, me mate knew him well n we used to go in regular, he was always giving us weird n wonderful things to try.
Remember the Polish Bakery on Catlow Hall Street, Ossy, it always smelt great when you were on he way home from the pub
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Old 31-03-2009, 11:00   #142
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Remember the Polish Bakery on Catlow Hall Street, Ossy, it always smelt great when you were on he way home from the pub
owt smelt great when rat arsed if it was edible.
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Old 31-03-2009, 16:32   #143
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owt smelt great when rat arsed if it was edible.
Thats why everybody likes a Donar with plenty chilli sause on cashy
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Old 02-06-2009, 21:32   #144
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Does any one know if there is any photos of John flynn the fish monger or of the wagon they used to use .
I am looking for any information on them for my family history, I do know john and his wife Ellen adopted one of the henry brothers and took his brother Richard Henry ,I believe after their parents died.
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Old 03-06-2009, 09:49   #145
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I was weaned on Lions mild in 1962/63 at 1/3d a pint that's perhaps why I don't remember much of this
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Old 03-06-2009, 10:27   #146
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Does any one know if there is any photos of John flynn the fish monger or of the wagon they used to use .
I am looking for any information on them for my family history, I do know john and his wife Ellen adopted one of the henry brothers and took his brother Richard Henry ,I believe after their parents died.
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Richard is the only one of the Henry brothers still alive both Tom and John died a few years ago. John lived a few doors away from me for a while and often popped in for a chat, his son Jack(who I went to school with)still lives on the John Street Estate in Ossy
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Old 03-06-2009, 10:29   #147
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I was weaned on Lions mild in 1962/63 at 1/3d a pint that's perhaps why I don't remember much of this
Me too Tony, in the Heys Inn, I was always told if you can drink Lions you can tame um
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Old 03-06-2009, 16:52   #148
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Who Remembers when we had "Proper" Winters with heavy snow every year,n never once a school was closed.
Yes cashy - I remember 1947 - just. We lived in Oswald St and everyone cleared their section of pavement, The mounds of snow were so high that we kids built snow caves in them - sledging down the street and straight acroos Washington St - what would Health & Safety think of that nowadays.
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Me too Tony, in the Heys Inn, I was always told if you can drink Lions you can tame um
thought the saying was ..."Thwaites for mates , Duttons for gluttons and if you sup Lions you deserve a bloody clawing "
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Old 04-06-2009, 10:02   #150
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thought the saying was ..."Thwaites for mates , Duttons for gluttons and if you sup Lions you deserve a bloody clawing "
Well Lions was definitely an acquired taste SJ, and I managed to acquire it at an early age
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