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

[Gramaisc]

Trent Glazing - at the back of the post office in Ingestre Road. Best glass bloke in the town, by far. I've never encountered the same level of casual perfection anywhere else since he went.

 

[basil]

yes i remember them two of the funniest guys ever ...

 

[Toble]

AR Computers anyone? The were on the top floor of 150 Newport Road, which is now sadly occupied by Westside (Sadly, as I have to go up and down those bloody stairs at least 10 times a day).

 

[wmrcomputers]

AR Computers anyone? The were on the top floor of 150 Newport Road, which is now sadly occupied by Westside (Sadly, as I have to go up and down those bloody stairs at least 10 times a day).

I'd not recognised you as a cabby before! I used to drive PH for westside about 10 years ago.

 

[tek-monkey]

Oh yes, AR computers. Where if you didn't want to buy the game, chances are there was a pirate copy available from someone in there!

 

[Toble]

I'd not recognised you as a cabby before! I used to drive PH for westside about 10 years ago.

Ah, I'm only 8 years into my sentence, and I don't actually drive anymore.

On Topic: Robot Martians in Market St, The Wimpy shack (not the afwul haccienda building), the 2 corner shops on Tixall Road and Cambridge St. Stores.

 

[basil]

Up and down the stairs about 10 times a day Toble? that should burn off those chips, fritters, battered sausages, curry sauce, deep fried mars bars,sun dried tripe, filo wrapped burgers, stuffed panda hearts, double cream scallops, choc eclair pasties.....etc etc..

 

[Gramaisc]

On Topic: Robot Martians in Market St, The Wimpy shack (not the afwul haccienda building), the 2 corner shops on Tixall Road and Cambridge St. Stores.

I lived opposite Dormans at the end of the 70s and used to use the shop on the corner of Dartmouth Street/Tixall Road. There was a tremendous variety of stuff in such a small space. Last time I looked it was the office for a soil testing firm.

What about Gupta's Indian shop on the corner of Crooked Bridge Road and Corporation Street. The tall, slightly bent building that looks like it was made from bits of other houses. Full of weird things that we didn't really understand back then.

 

[Gramaisc]

Up and down the stairs about 10 times a day Toble? that should burn off those chips, fritters, battered sausages, curry sauce, deep fried mars bars,sun dried tripe, filo wrapped burgers, stuffed panda hearts, double cream scallops, choc eclair pasties.....etc etc..

I look forward to the opening of Chez Basil - next time Pastiche closes, perhaps?

 

[wmrcomputers]

Cambridge street stores... good one. I forgot that was ever there. Used to be a good little shop, and one i wish was still there!!
Key Stores is ok to a certain extent, my wife just has to check the sell by dates first. (Bought several items in the past which should have been taken off display)

On subject of old shops - can anyone confirm a rumour for me. Apparently our house once operated as a grocery shop - we are told it's MANY moons ago, but i've googled all i can and I can't find anything. Top of Blakiston Street on corner of prospect road??

 

[tek-monkey]

Did you ever work at the Colosseum?

Cambridge stores closed IIRC when Amelia died in a car crash on the Stone road. Their kids ran it for a bit but now its a house share (albeit a bloody big one). Guptas was run by a white guy for quite a while before it closed, reminded me of basil fawlty. No idea on your place though.

 

[wmrcomputers]

Did you ever work at the Colosseum?

Cambridge stores closed IIRC when Amelia died in a car crash on the Stone road. Their kids ran it for a bit but now its a house share (albeit a bloody big one). Guptas was run by a white guy for quite a while before it closed, reminded me of basil fawlty. No idea on your place though.

How did you know I worked at the Colosseum?? lol

I did indeed, met my first wife working there, then went to work at Ritz Bingo (now Gala) as a Treasurer before starting on the taxi's.
In and out of other things since then!

 

[basil]

you know what ?...you disgust me ....people like you are disgusting, we may be a bit behind the times down here in Torquay but........oh?............

 

[Gramaisc]

Oh! I say, steady on.

 

[Rikki]

What about Gupta's Indian shop on the corner of Crooked Bridge Road and Corporation Street. The tall, slightly bent building that looks like it was made from bits of other houses. Full of weird things that we didn't really understand back then.

I grew up on corpration street oposite John Wheeldon and i can only remember it being a run of the mill corner shop. I used to go in and ask for cardboard boxes to make robot suits etc out of.

 

[Gramaisc]

The Indian phase would have been in the late 70s, perhaps. Around the same time there was the scrap warehouse at the end of Sandyford Street, you could easily spend an hour looking through all sorts of junk in there.

 

[cat_woman]

Around the same time there was the scrap warehouse at the end of Sandyford Street, you could easily spend an hour looking through all sorts of junk in there.

Only you could spend a few hours doing that.

 

[basil]

anyone remember Mr Jeffrys and Mr Wassall?....

 

[Gramaisc]

Around the same time there was the scrap warehouse at the end of Sandyford Street, you could easily spend an hour looking through all sorts of junk in there.

Only you could spend a few hours doing that.

Strangely, I don't have half a piano. Do you happen to know where there is one?

 

[age'd parent]

Cambridge street stores... good one. I forgot that was ever there. Used to be a good little shop, and one i wish was still there!!
Key Stores is ok to a certain extent, my wife just has to check the sell by dates first. (Bought several items in the past which should have been taken off display)

On subject of old shops - can anyone confirm a rumour for me. Apparently our house once operated as a grocery shop - we are told it's MANY moons ago, but i've googled all i can and I can't find anything. Top of Blakiston Street on corner of prospect road??

Good old Reg Horne had a long shed in the back garden, when mum and dad moved up to Coton fields in 1950, he eventually had to close it down and moved into the top shop, about 1955, his daughter had the next door shop for many years as a ladies hairdressers. I still remember buying my first sweets from his old shed (2 black jacks at 4 for an old penny), and the wasps that used to hover over the cakes behind the cracked glass counter front.