You Know You're A Staffordian When...

Graham

Graham

Graham
The Sheridan...the only place to be along with The Alpine, Tilly's disco on Thursday, Young Farmers County Showground on Friday, The Grot on Saturday, 4Cs on Sunday, Gayton Hotel on Monday which left Tuesday and Wednesday night to recover. Sorry for resurecting this thread but I'm new here and catching up :)
 
gilbert grape

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You remember getting your first pair of football boots from Sportsco (The High House) when it was all black & white.
 
Graham

Graham

Graham
gilbert grape said:
You remember getting your first pair of football boots from Sportsco (The High House) when it was all black & white.
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Or a cooker. Wasn't it an MEB showroom before Sportsco?
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Graham said:
gilbert grape said:
You remember getting your first pair of football boots from Sportsco (The High House) when it was all black & white.
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Or a cooker. Wasn't it an MEB showroom before Sportsco?
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Gas showroom in my day. There was a Cancer Research(?) charity shop at one time, also. The MEB shop was up near Gaol Square, next to where Café Nerro is now..

A chap that I worked with had ordered some spares through the old High House gas showroom, and they took ages coming, with many false promises. They wouldn't give him the phone number to ring and see if they were there, only the Stoke number. They would tell him they were there and he would walk into town only to find that they weren't. After a few such failures, we determined to get the Stafford number by going in mob-handed and distracting all the staff so that one of us could nip behind the desk and get the number from the disc on the phone. It worked a dream until I got to the phone to find that it said '01782 ******' - foiled!
 
staffordjas

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Wasn't Sliwinski's somewhere where Cafe Nero is now?
That's going back to the times of The Sheridan and The Alpine ,along with Tilly's disco on a thursday. Tillys used to do a great 'Chicken in a basket' to tuck into before getting pissed. The Grot quite a few times a week (I used to be over18,over25 - you didn't have ID cards then ;) ) and Blazes Disco, Gayton Hall . Couldn't afford a taxi back home in those days (it was either booze or taxi - the booze won!) so staggered miles home carrying my platforms most of the way :D
I used to more or less live in the Grapes, along with Sun & Malt &Hops. Stafford used to be the place to be in those days,and coaches used to come from all over for 'Top of the world' (The grot) with the Grasshopper disco upstairs(went to walk through the glass-mirrored walls a few times :lol:) and balconies to walk around as well.
 
Gramaisc

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Looking at the Sheridan today, it's difficult to believe that it used to be the 'In' place at one time..
 
V

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Presto, the Brine Baths, Rumbelows, Wrygges (now River Island), the old SGI, the big old bus shelter in the square with its corrugated roof, Bagnalls, the Golden Egg restaurant, Riverside Centre sinking, the old fire station (now of course Asda), the Apollo cinema with the success of Aliens "keeping bingo at bay", the Top of the World and it burning down...
 
Gramaisc

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VirtualCynic said:
Rumbelows .. the old fire station (now of course Asda) ...
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And we had a Rediffusion shop, as well, I seem to remember. Then even older Fire Station was on Mill Bank and the site is where the surgery and its associated car-park are now.
 
V

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Gramaisc said:
And we had a Rediffusion shop, as well, I seem to remember. Then even older Fire Station was on Mill Bank and the site is where the surgery and its associated car-park are now.
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Ah I forgot the Rediffusion Shop... and there was Fosters Menswear, C&A, the BRC...

And I find there seems to be some sort of misconception that Stafford people are miserable...? :?:
 
Jay

Jay

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The outrage caused by Brian's Wallpapers when they painted their building bright blue in the market square.
 
gilbert grape

gilbert grape

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Graham said:
gilbert grape said:
You remember getting your first pair of football boots from Sportsco (The High House) when it was all black & white.
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Or a cooker. Wasn't it an MEB showroom before Sportsco?
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Not quite old enough to remember the Gas show room, thankfully! My Dad often mentioned about him and my brother meeting Bruce Rioch there as they were both big Villa fans back then. My gran also told me tales about sitting upstairs in the current McDonalds (Or where it is now)and having her feet done at the chiropodists.

In the same vicinity I also remember, as a kid, going to St Marys jumble sales in the church hall and summer fetes in the churchyard. Sunday school in the same buildings and youth club there when I was a teenager.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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The gas showroom was the other side (ie where supersavers is now) not on the sainted Sportsco side.

Housing all that remains of what must've been an exceptional cellar.




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for starters
 
Graham

Graham

Graham
staffordjas said:
Wasn't Sliwinski's somewhere where Cafe Nero is now?
That's going back to the times of The Sheridan and The Alpine ,along with Tilly's disco on a thursday. Tillys used to do a great 'Chicken in a basket' to tuck into before getting pissed. The Grot quite a few times a week (I used to be over18,over25 - you didn't have ID cards then ;) ) and Blazes Disco, Gayton Hall . Couldn't afford a taxi back home in those days (it was either booze or taxi - the booze won!) so staggered miles home carrying my platforms most of the way :D
I used to more or less live in the Grapes, along with Sun & Malt &Hops. Stafford used to be the place to be in those days,and coaches used to come from all over for 'Top of the world' (The grot) with the Grasshopper disco upstairs(went to walk through the glass-mirrored walls a few times :lol:) and balconies to walk around as well.
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Forgot about Blazes and all the long walks home going out entailed :) A night at the Grot also meant wearing a tie to get in! All that beer never did me any harm...except maybe my memory :)
 
flossietoo

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...The SGI and the wonderful nun who used to walk to work there from the convent each day. The Hough Tennis Club where I spent every waking hour during the summer holidays. The little row of cottages right at the end of the Gaol Road standing on what is now the car park to those old people's flats - one of them had a hand-painted sign outside which, for year, I thought offered "Giggles for Sale". Eventually someone told me it was 'cycles'. The pet shop on Lloyds roundabout, with tortoises in the window. I so wanted a tortoise and read every book on their care which I could get my hands on. That was the closest I ever came to a tortoise but I could probably still sex one. The library in Rowley Street - the first time I was taken there, I felt as if I had entered an enchanted world. Also in Rowley Street, the little shop called Charlie's - it was the only place open on Sundays and to the best of my knowledge, the first to stock Arctic Rolls. Bratt & Dyke (where McDonald's is now) with a glass case full of soft toys. I was allowed to look at said glass case, on days when I had been particularly good. The Hole in the Wall bus stop on the Stone Road. Victoria Park, before the work was done on the river - with the big fish pond and the weir under the bridge which my friend and I once managed to divert with large rocks collected from the area. Bowells in Gnosall, who used to phone up weekly to take a grocery order and then deliver to your house. Much later, they gave me much pleasure when they placed an advert in the Newsletter reading "Bowells are open this Easter". The sweet shop next to the Picture House. The queues outside the Picture House to get in to see Grease! It was three days before I was successful. The retailers kept complaining, so they alternated the direction of the queue - either past the Grapes or past whatever that other pub is called on the opposite corner. Reekie's, in that pretty black-and-white building next to the Picture House, which is now a gaming arcade. That was where I bought my first record...talking of which, the record department upstairs in Boots and of course, Lotus Records (way too cool for me ever to step inside!)
 
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