Nostalgia - What are your memories of Stafford?

[proactive]

Old Mother Riley ( Arthur Lucan ) died here

Arthur Lucan died in Hull, didn't he?

 

[tek-monkey]

Not all asylums were for the mentally ill
Some were places of peace

It depended on the resident pharmacist.

 

[Gramaisc]

Asylum - sanctuary, shelter, a place of safety..

..unless you happen to be seeking it.

 

[Noah]

It depended on the resident pharmacist.

Or in many 19th century asylums, the brewer.

 

[bpelectric]

Peter Boynton was there for a while - but that may have just been a used car situation, I never took much notice..

What was the name of the Austin/Leyland dealership on Silkmore Lane?

It was Fina oil storage depot for years then Boxalls had a branch there selling Routes Group Hillman cars and Commer commercials. Longton Transport came after that that was the Leyland Groupe days Austin & Morris and Leyland commercials as Gramaisc says Peter Boynton came after that they just dealt with second hand sales

 

[bpelectric]

Sweaty Bettys chip shop in Telegraph St right on the corner was a chinky last time i was round there

 

[Gramaisc]

Sweaty Bettys chip shop in Telegraph St right on the corner was a chinky last time i was round there

They were nice chips, though. The last place in Stafford that I had them in newspaper..

I always thought Dartmouth Street was one of the best chippies, after Mr Benton left Sandon Road..

 

[bpelectric]

They were nice chips, though. The last place in Stafford that I had them in newspaper..

I always thought Dartmouth Street was one of the best chippies, after Mr Benton left Sandon Road..

They sure were always went down there when i lived in baswich Friday night ritual

 

[John Marwood]

Sweaty Bettys chip shop in Telegraph St right on the corner was a chinky last time i was round there

Sweaty Betty if you troughed there in the seventies..Fanny Round the Bend if you were a little younger.. apparently

Dartmouth St, an early adopter of baked beans and chips

Batter bits? Don't mind if I do

 

[bpelectric]

Ham's Chinese laundry on Eastgate Street. Cyril Grocott's fish and chip shop and milk bar also on Eastgate Street opposite Hams Laundry

 

[Gramaisc]

Stafford Laundry on Stone Road.

 

[basil]

There's a lot of black in my memory...

I think that family live(d) a few doors down towards co-op..........

 

[John Marwood]

Stafford Laundry on Stone Road.

For younger readers these photographs were taken before birds were invented

 

[littleme]

For younger readers these photographs were taken before birds were invented

Whereabouts on the Stone Rd would the laundry of been - I can't place the houses?

 

[John Marwood]

Whereabouts on the Stone Rd would the laundry of been - I can't place the houses?

I remember it as being on the left heading out of town just before the bridge next to the Common

So almost certainly the other side and a lot further down...

 

[age'd parent]

I remember it as being on the left heading out of town just before the bridge next to the Common

So almost certainly the other side and a lot further down...

Exactly right, just before the slope onto the bridge, on the left

 

[stoofer34]

Sweaty Bettys chip shop in Telegraph St right on the corner was a chinky last time i was round there

Rushdens


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[Gramaisc]

Whereabouts on the Stone Rd would the laundry of been - I can't place the houses?

Here, as I remember it..

This was the Outlaws' house, I'm fairly sure - rather less formidable-looking these days..

 

[littleme]

This was the Outlaws' house, I'm fairly sure - rather less formidable-looking these days..

Yes! This is it Still think it was yellow and black, or maybe purple? Wish I could remember, trouble is I lived here when I was very little, then moved away, then came back.......I think maybe I sometimes get confused with places...

 

[Glam]

I've just asked me little sister, and she says it was matt black on the outside.