Years Gone By

[cherokee]

woods tobacconists were a bit like that little shop half way up burnley rd next to the car sales place.... they traded for donkeys years then just come to an abrupt end.....quite sad really....

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by Ianto.W.

Wood's tobacconists was still trading on the day that the Union St club shut on 28th March 1989, they must have ceased trading shortly after. Have any of the members or their family members sat in the 'Gods' at the Hippodrome?

My regular haunt as a kid Ianto.W. Whenever I managed to acquire or save up 6d I was off to the hippodrome for the long climb up to the gods.

[Margaret Pilkington]

The Electricity board showrooms used to be between the two Wood's shops.....NORWEB.

[grego]

Originally Posted by cherokee

woods tobacconists were a bit like that little shop half way up burnley rd next to the car sales place.... they traded for donkeys years then just come to an abrupt end.....quite sad really....

I remember that shop, it was run by an old lady that would serve you cigarettes in 5's!

[WillowTheWhisp]

I used to love that shop. It seemed so quaint and old fashioned.

[Ianto.W.]

Originally Posted by jambutty

My regular haunt as a kid Ianto.W. Whenever I managed to acquire or save up 6d I was off to the hippodrome for the long climb up to the gods.

I have a signed photograph of Frank Randle leaning on his car, I think the car was an Armstrong -Sidley taken outside the Hippodrome, I think it's in the 'wartime suitcase', was he the last owner? jambutty, I knew the stage manager the late Harry Curry who used to sing when they had 'technical' problems, to stop the audience stamping their feet, he sang Joseph Locke songs and he was very good. I think the conductor of the orchestra was a man called Baxter he also had a hot food shop near the Spread Eagle pub, selling steak puddings and the like.

[talentedbutslow]

Originally Posted by cherokee

well my hubby has asked me to ask who remembers the first supermarket in accy and what was it called .... ????

I remember it well......it was Maypoles...and it was my first job.....the old Maypoles was next to Bridges hardware shop opposite the market hall and they opened their new supermarket on the corner of Broadway and Union street.I was 15 at the time and remember feeling very proud to be put in charge of all the refrigerator ordering and restocking.It was a new experience for customers.I remember they employed an old guy at the door with a gruff voice yelling out........"HERE....TAKE A BASKET".....a lot of people backed outta da shop because they thought he was selling them...lol.....people were not used to having to line up at a checkout either...but in those days Maypole had packers on the checkouts to help out........Seems so long ago now.....and it was ......1961

Tal

[cashman]

who remembers the sunken toilets on dutton street? the old tax office was across to the right going up from woolworths, and when roughly were they closed n sealed up?

[MargaretR]

I remember the old toilets - white tiles and an attendant always on duty - spotless.
I can't remember when they were sealed up, but they had gone by the time The Blue Dahlia coffee bar opened next to where they had been.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

I remember the old toilets - white tiles and an attendant always on duty - spotless.
I can't remember when they were sealed up, but they had gone by the time The Blue Dahlia coffee bar opened next to where they had been.

are ya sure margaret? thought they were still in use when it opened. used to use em fer a wash n brush up, when the landlady kicked me out.

[MargaretR]

You may well be right there - but closed by 1960(ish)

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

I remember the old toilets - white tiles and an attendant always on duty - spotless.
I can't remember when they were sealed up, but they had gone by the time The Blue Dahlia coffee bar opened next to where they had been.

Pardon me or asking but its years since I was in Accy, well that part of Accy anyway, but is the Blue Dahlia still there. I used to know the lad who ran it, he was called John, (Javani Annapo) he came from Sicily, was a great guy used to play pool with him in the Swan in the mid 70s, if I remeber rightly he took up British Citezenship.

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Pardon me or asking but its years since I was in Accy, well that part of Accy anyway, but is the Blue Dahlia still there. I used to know the lad who ran it, he was called John, (Javani Annapo) he came from Sicily, was a great guy used to play pool with him in the Swan in the mid 70s, if I remeber rightly he took up British Citezenship.

I don't go shopping nowadays either .... on any (rare) trip to Accy centre I always find there have been changes.

I only saw that fancy clock once.....and it wasn't in its display mode at the time

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Pardon me or asking but its years since I was in Accy, well that part of Accy anyway, but is the Blue Dahlia still there. I used to know the lad who ran it, he was called John, (Javani Annapo) he came from Sicily, was a great guy used to play pool with him in the Swan in the mid 70s, if I remeber rightly he took up British Citezenship.

It's an amusement arcade now, called the Blue Lagoon...sacrilege!

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

It's an amusement arcade now, called the Blue Lagoon...sacrilege!

Totally agree WH used to like poping in for a coffee