Years Gone By

[Ianto.W.]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

OOOh ooh do you remember those cash things that used t go zooming across the shop on wires to the cashier sitting up in a corner? Was that Moffat's?

My mate Fred Whelan used to work there willow, you got your change back the same way on the wire, I believe the fire was at moffats and not Bailyes as was raised in an earlier thread, it was a shop for them that had brass and was supported by the middle classes.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Blooming Heck I must be old.......I can remember the Sunken Gardens, which is the site that the Arndale is built on....and the Odeon Cinema.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Vivien would be almost 60....she lived at Haworth Avenue off Manchester Rd

I can't think why the heck I would know her but the name and the address certainly rings a bell.

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Woolworth used to be where Macdonalds was. it was a very imposing store.Two levels and a sweeping staircase at the back of the shop......I couls spend hours trying to spend sixpence.

Just found a web site and your right, Co-op took Woolworths building.

http://www.frithphotos.com/pageloade...=1-85937-806-4

[WillowTheWhisp]

Does anybody remember those weird little fountains on Broadway round about the time of the sunken gardens? Sort of conical shaped concrete basins. There were some with flowers in too.

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I can remember the Sunken Gardens.

I've seen pictures of the sunken gardens and IMHO it was the best Broadway ever looked.

I remember when Broadway had the road running through it with the pelican crossing.

[jimmi5bellies]

Yes, i remember when the Arndale was a carpark and the Odeon was on the corner. Who remembers the Saturday morning club there ? Used to go and watch Lassie films on a Saturday morning and a bit of a disco after. Think it was something like 9am-12 noon. Going back to the mid 70's here lol.

I remember watching ET at the Odeon when it was first released.

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

There were some with flowers in too.

I remember the ones with flowers in, I got a nasty bump on the head from walking round the rim of one of those and falling off it. My mum said it served me right for standing on it in the first place! lol!

[Margaret Pilkington]

Redmans...does anyone remember Redmans having a milk bar? My gran used to take me in there for a Horlicks or a milk shake. You sat at the counter on very high stools that you could twirl round on. It was styled very much like an American milk bar

[WillowTheWhisp]

I used to go to the Odeon club Saturday mornings.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Anybody remember MacFisheries?

[flashy]

lol look what ive just found...and its got our tinks name on it

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=...start=480&sa=N

[jimmi5bellies]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I used to go to the Odeon club Saturday mornings.

I bet it was you then that was always telling me to sit down !

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes, i do and Dewhusrts butchers......though my family always knew it as the Argenta...don't ask me why, because i don't know.

[accymel]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

Was that where the pound shop is now ?

It did move there on broadway but wasnt there originally im sure it was once on blackburn road or church st