Years Gone By

[yerself]

Originally Posted by cherokee

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

Was it Maypole on Broadway?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by cherokee

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

Doh, sorry...still coming to, thought you said Ossy.

[grego]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

LOL! Dave



I don't remember those

Maybe you were too young, I was about 14 and he was really horrible to us telling us to go away

[Ianto.W.]

jambutty, The public baths at the top of St James Street just below the Scaitcliffe Colliery. Just across the road from the baths was a side street and up a ginnel on the left was a ‘shop’ where you could buy a penny or twopenny bag of Smiths crisps. Actually they were the broken bits but the bag was proper full to bursting. You certainly got your money’s worth. You had to watch out for the blue one though. It was very, very salty.

That was called O'Beech's jambutty they used to sell sarsaparilla and ginger beer in pot jugs like Stantons did, the greasy crisp broken bits would be well out of date but they were great after a good swim.

[jambutty]

Much obliged for the ‘shop’ name information Ianto.W.

In those days there was no such thing as ‘out of date’ goods except by how the goods looked. In any case the ‘bits’ could well have been off the floor but then that gave them that extra flavour.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by jambutty

Do you mean these Margaret Pilkington?

Aaah yes Jambutty.......I loved those gardens. My gran used to sit on the benches while I tried to roll down the steep grass verges.
How simple my pleasures were when you campare them to what the kids of today want to do.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by mez

o does anyone remember sauls up (black abbey st? i think) all the foodstuff was in carboard boxes.

Yes, I remember that little shop too. He used to have a basket of tins without labels. They were very cheap. My mum once bought what she thought was a tin of salmon......she thought it was a John West type tin...when it was opened it was pineapple rings......I was quite glad as i preferred pineapple rings to salmon anyway.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by yerself

Was it Maypole on Broadway?

Wasn't it Melias.....the shop bought the picture place.......... that used to be at the bottom of Avenue Parade...the shop that was later used by Ray Lynden after he graduated from the market.

Isobel Winter'sshop in Peel street wa the place to go for school uniforms,but they were very expensive.......and they used to sell lovely babywear.
Price's cake shop, also in Peel Street. I used to run across there from where I worked and buy myslef a lovely fresh cream trifle as a treat when I had been paid.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by jambutty

Much obliged for the ‘shop’ name information Ianto.W.

In those days there was no such thing as ‘out of date’ goods except by how the goods looked. In any case the ‘bits’ could well have been off the floor but then that gave them that extra flavour.

Did you ever go to the chippy across the road from the baths and buy a bag of batter bits for tuppence. I used to really look forward to that after I had been swimming.....if I was really flush I would buy four pennorth of chips and smother them with salt and vinegar.

[WillowTheWhisp]

When the Queen came I got a bunny rabbit - I still have it.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Isobel Winter'sshop in Peel street wa the place to go for school uniforms,but they were very expensive.......and they used to sell lovely babywear.

I remember being taken there for new winter coats. She sent me a card when I was born, and my was Mum also sent one when she was born twenty odd years earlier. I think she used to read the births column in the Observer, and sent them to get new customers.

In the middle of posting this my Mum called in for a coffee, and had in her purse a picture of me wearing a suit from Isobel Winter's! Pictured below with my baby brother.

[Tinkerbelle]

Awww you were sooo sweet ........ what happened?

[WillowTheWhisp]

I think she got them from the register office or whatever it was which was up Avenue Parade opposite where Peel House now is. I used to call in on behalf of the bank and we did the same thing - sent all new babies a card and if the parent brought the card to the bank we opened the baby an account with five shillings and gave them a free locked box type thing to save up in - known as a "home safe" which they had to bring in to the bank to be unlocked. Mad or what?

[jimmi5bellies]

lol @ garindas photo !
Ill never be able to look at your brother again in the same light.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I think she got them from the register office or whatever it was which was up Avenue Parade opposite where Peel House now is. I used to call in on behalf of the bank and we did the same thing - sent all new babies a card and if the parent brought the card to the bank we opened the baby an account with five shillings and gave them a free locked box type thing to save up in - known as a "home safe" which they had to bring in to the bank to be unlocked. Mad or what?

I had one of those Willow.....it was in the shape of a book and bound in a leatherette type of stuff.......wonder what happened to it?