Nostalgia - What are your memories of Stafford?

[db]

just stumbled across this thread whilst looking for something else.. ironically, what makes me nostalgic is reading over these old threads!

such a shame all the photos from the early posts didn't survive the 2012 forum rebirth

 

[Entropy]

I'm not sure if these have been mentioned yet, but some of my earliest memories of Stafford, circa 1984 ish and later....and in no particular order.

- The golf house on Kingston Hill (where I grew up) I could see it from my bedroom window but was never allowed to explore it.
- Russian Ron in the town center
- Mad Ken the barber in Littleworth, his barbers was at the back of the video store that is now the pharmacist, the guy was a legend!
- The Avro Vulcan flying over RAF Stafford during one of its open days.....the noise was deafening, but what a noise!

 

[bpelectric]

Russian Robert you mean lived in South Wall worked at English Electric / GEC in 03 shop

 

[Entropy]

Thats the chap....I remember him outside Boots thinking the KGB was after him....

 

[bpelectric]

I remember working on a press in there one morning and he was late, forman asked him why he was late, he said he'd been on a mission over Russia the night before.
We don't see characters around like him any more.

 

[John Marwood]

Greatrex or Midland Red?

Tricky choice

Not keen on the Villa, but quite like a headrest

 

[Withnail]

The sports shop underneath the Ancient High House. You used to go downstairs and all you could smell was brand new trainers. Got my first pair of Adidas from there. I reckon that shop is the main cause of my unhealthy trainer fixation.

Sportsco! Quality shop. All the trainers were down in the basement as well so the smell just multiplied! I wish my house smelt like that!

 

[Jonah]

You can see Cantors through the window in the first photo.

 

[pop80_uk]

I would have to say the hospital fun run is the event I look back on with the most fondness, it was spectacular for a youngster and had (from what I remember) a really community feel. Nothing like it exists any more.

I also remember enjoying the GEC pantomime, which they used to put on every year. A present for every child and a meal and goody bag. Nothing like that happens anymore, its genuinely quite sad.

Its a changing world but I sometime wonder if its better.

 

[John Marwood]

You can see Cantors through the window in the first photo.

We knew him as Keegan

 

[Carole]

On post 347...the boy in the top picture ...

He is wearing a velour top, we all had one of those, they were all the rage back in the day.

 

[John Marwood]

Was Harry Fenton ever near here?

 

[Sir BoD]

To me, these two photographs have the most connection with my childhood - it's how best I remember that part of the Ancient High House. Looking closely at the first one, the visual clues tell me it was around April 1981. Withnail, are these your photographs?

 

[Withnail]

Withnail, are these your photographs?

These are a World Exclusive to Stafford Forum.

Which is a way of saying no.

 

[Withnail]

 

[John Marwood]

Tikos!!

 

[Floss]

Tikos!!

?

 

[John Marwood]

?

Early Greggs

 

[Sir BoD]

Great picture again, Withnail.What I find striking is the traffic lights outside McDonald's (why?) and the 'To Let' sign, too. The picture looks circa early 80s and I know that Mc came to Stafford 82 / 83ish, so I'm wondering if it was when they'd just moved in?

 

[John Marwood]