Sadly missed? Blasts from the past - A reminder of Stafford's past

[Gramaisc]

The Gloster Javelin at the RAF Main Gate, before it was cut up for scrap and replaced by an insipid Harrier...

 

[John Marwood]

The Gloster Javelin at the RAF Main Gate, before it was cut up for scrap and replaced by an insipid Harrier...

I thought they were made from fibreglass

 

[Gramaisc]

The Gloster Javelin at the RAF Main Gate, before it was cut up for scrap and replaced by an insipid Harrier...

I thought they were made from fibreglass

Quite a few of the sought-after types, e.g., Spitfires, have been replaced in that manner, but the Javelin was real.

 

[Mr J C]

Bagnalls (or was it Bricknells? - I get confused so easily!!!) the toy and model store

 

[joshua]

Bagnalls (or was it Bricknells? - I get confused so easily!!!) the toy and model store

Bagnalls, i always used to look forward to going upstairs to the model aircraft department, i think a very substantial part of my pocket money was invested in airfix kits.

 

[basil]

Bagnalls (or was it Bricknells? - I get confused so easily!!!) the toy and model store

Bagnalls, i always used to look forward to going upstairs to the model aircraft department, i think a very substantial part of my pocket money was invested in airfix kits.

Sniffing the glue provided was my airfix.......

 

[Mr J C]

Bagnalls (or was it Bricknells? - I get confused so easily!!!) the toy and model store

Bagnalls, i always used to look forward to going upstairs to the model aircraft department, i think a very substantial part of my pocket money was invested in airfix kits.

Sniffing the glue provided was my airfix.......

Aaah the heady heights of our youth!!!

 

[Mr J C]

Bricknells must have been/is the shop on Burton Manor Square then

 

[basil]

Chell's motorcycles used to occupy a shop on broad eye, just off chell road, coincidence?...perhaps.......

 

[Andreas Rex]

Chell's motorcycles used to occupy a shop on broad eye.

Cyril Chell also used to own broadeye windmill in the 1980s...I think it's been mentioned on here before.

 

[age'd parent]

What was that cafe on the north west corner of market square, on the second floor?
Now a building society place, I use to love watching every body in the square while having my lunch.

 

[stoofer34]

Stantons?

S

 

[John Marwood]

What was that cafe on the north west corner of market square, on the second floor?
Now a building society place, I use to love watching every body in the square while having my lunch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4OiBwD43I

 

[proactive]

What was that cafe on the north west corner of market square, on the second floor?
Now a building society place, I use to love watching every body in the square while having my lunch.

Jenkinsons? First floor was self-service, second floor was for the posh folk who needed help

 

[age'd parent]

What was that cafe on the north west corner of market square, on the second floor?
Now a building society place, I use to love watching every body in the square while having my lunch.

Jenkinsons? First floor was self-service, second floor was for the posh folk who needed help

Nah jenks was too posh for us common lads, Stoofer got it, it was Stantons.

 

[age'd parent]

What was that cafe on the north west corner of market square, on the second floor?
Now a building society place, I use to love watching every body in the square while having my lunch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig4OiBwD43I

Peeping no way, BUT that shop at the end of the main st on the left opposite the cafe, used to have an open plan staircase, if you happened to be at the bottom when girls went up !!

 

[Thehooperman]

Jenkinsons? First floor was self-service, second floor was for the posh folk who needed help

I remember going to Jenkinsons for birthday partys in the 70s. Which building was it?

 

[Moby Dick]

Jenkinsons? First floor was self-service, second floor was for the posh folk who needed help

I remember going to Jenkinsons for birthday partys in the 70s. Which building was it?

Jenks used to be just past Boots, somewhere near Ottakers, oops Waterstones! Now who remembers that they had the Freeway burger bar upstairs in the 70's? Very nice and posh. Then they had the Jenks Wine Bar on the ground floor.

Also who remember the Golden Egg restaurant around the same area that may of been Jenks in the late 60's - 70's?

 

[Moby Dick]

What was that cafe on the north west corner of market square, on the second floor?
Now a building society place, I use to love watching every body in the square while having my lunch.

Jenkinsons? First floor was self-service, second floor was for the posh folk who needed help

Nah jenks was too posh for us common lads, Stoofer got it, it was Stantons.

Yes it was Stantons and I used to get my lunch their, pasty and chips, 45p as I remember for it was a real treat and big hole in my wages for the days work in my Saturday job at the organ shop next door to Bagnalls. It then changed to the 3 cooks I think?

 

[basil]

What was that cafe on the north west corner of market square, on the second floor?
Now a building society place, I use to love watching every body in the square while having my lunch.

Take a look at today's newsletter, the picture at the bottom of the nostalgia page from 1964 shows the names of the building society and the bakers/cafe.....