You Know You're A Staffordian When...

[staffordjas]

. Bratt & Dyke (where McDonald's is now)


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!)

Aaaaah - I remember going into something like a department store where McDonalds is now, but didn't know what it was called.

I also remember a fabric shop (or something like that)around about where Peter Cook/Alliance & Leicester are now.

I used to go in those record shops well. There is still a door in Boots where the stairs up to the record department used to be.

 

[wizzard]

. Bratt & Dyke (where McDonald's is now)


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!)

Aaaaah - I remember going into something like a department store where McDonalds is now, but didn't know what it was called.

I also remember a fabric shop (or something like that)around about where Peter Cook/Alliance & Leicester are now.

I used to go in those record shops well. There is still a door in Boots where the stairs up to the record department used to be.

I loved going upstairs in boots, thats where I used to get all my computer games from.

 

[gilbert grape]

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.




http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/Resources/Images/h/highhousestafford.jpg

for starters

Oh yeah, British Gas Supersavers! Used to have an odd smell when you walked in.....now has a different smell when you walk in!
Hayden's, Paynes, Rumbelows & Wimbush completed the set down that end.

 

[staffordjas]

Hayden's, Paynes, Rumbelows & Wimbush completed the set down that end.

Could it be Wimbushes that I remember getting tomato soup in cartons from on a Saturday when I worked washing hair in Ann Giles Hairdressers? Ann Giles used to be above a butchers ,facing the Swan Hotel,where the shoe repairers & Thomsons are now.

 

[Gramaisc]

John Marwood - Stafford Pageant c.1950

This Newsletter article - http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/News/Wanted-1100-ways-to-party-in-Stafford-07032013.htm - about the up-coming celebrations, contains the word 'pageant'...

 

[Withnail]

Are you somehow questioning the cromulence of the word 'pageant'?

 

[Gramaisc]

Are you somehow questioning the cromulence of the word 'pageant'?

Not in the slightest - merely alerting those who might care to the possibleness of an occurrence occurring.

They might like to get involved at an early stage..