Nostalgia - What are your memories of Stafford?

[FooFighter]

was it something like Izaaks records

 

[Mrs M]

You just might be right, wasn't it Johnny Izaaks

 

[Mrs M]

Riverside disco's on a Friday night, yay. Later to be heavy rock night. Universal disco's too, gordon bennet almost forgot about that one. Grasshopper at top of the world. Southend club, boro social club ( the rock box, now Sainsbury's) also was the rollerskating rink. Them were the days.

 

[lolly]

Tillys Disco...but I Cant Remember Much About It!!!..was Very Drunk Through The 70's And 80's..and The Yeoman Disco's

 

[lolly]

And The Wayfarer In Stone..we Used To Go To Chat Up Blokes From The Telecom College To Buy Our Drinks...many A Time We Walked Back To Stafford In Snow With Frostbite.
And Does Anyone Remember The Groups That Used To Be At The Poly( Now The University)..i Saw Simple Minds,u2..all Before They Were Famous.
And Also The Student Union Bar That Used To Be In Tipping Sreet..what A Hovel That Was..but Great Fun

 

[Sir BoD]

I remember struggling on our bikes (we were poor), my dad, mum and myself, trying to get several boxes of bathroom tiles back from Great Mills, where The Newsletter is based now. My Dad shoved a couple of sets in his bike basket and the whole thing just tipped up - cue several broken tiles and a very irate mother!!

I also remember going to WHSmith and playing with the computers, which were at the very rear, and typing -

10 PRINT "Simon is gay."
20 GOTO 10

In fact, what about the record dept in Boots upstairs too? And the computers up there in the far left hand corner as you went up.

I also remember John Collier/ Smart Alec/ Terminus 2 (and it did have those supermarket entrance and exit terminals!!) / Principles For Men, which have all been superseded by the great Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

Then there was Instep, PK Stationary, Dunn & Co, Radio Rentals, Granada, and a very small narrow entrance to a jewellers on the site that is now the defunct TSB.

Then there's Key's supermarket, which Bejams replaced, and is now Iceland. The Co-Op dept store in town also had the supermarket section on Princes Street, where I remember one woman with obviously dyed hair, had completely plucked her eyebrows out and had pencilled in very thin replacements.

Someone mentioned Roy Townsend, but do they remember Bookland? I'm sure it was there that I bought a book with the very first money I earned from a paper-round - 'The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole.'

I am plucking all of these up from all different eras I'm afraid, but my mind is a little like that. Scatty.

 

[Mrs M]

anyone remember liptons, next to smiths. I remember shopping with me mum and there being an uneven chequered step outside, hmm funny the things you remember

 

[Mrs M]

I remember being at my mates one night until early hours and ordering a taxi home, the taxi was late so called to see why and they(westside) said that they couldn't get a taxi to as as zanzibar was on fire. we were only in the walls so looked out to see a big glow in the sky. then we spent the next couple of hours on newport rd by suzuki garage watching it burn to the ground and worrying about the fish and parrotts.

 

[Mrs M]

Here's a little quiz for you all.

Where was the shop that had the first lift in the town and what is there now?

 

[Sir BoD]

Was it the dept store shop that Maccy D replaced? I can't remember its name.

 

[neil]

anyone remember liptons, next to smiths. I remember shopping with me mum and there being an uneven chequered step outside, hmm funny the things you remember

Oh yeah! It used to be called 'Maypole'. My sister used to work in there - until she got married to a Telford United fan and moved Wellington! Ha! She's now a grandmother!!!! hehe!

 

[Toble]

I remember being at my mates one night until early hours and ordering a taxi home, the taxi was late so called to see why and they(westside) said that they couldn't get a taxi to as as zanzibar was on fire. we were only in the walls so looked out to see a big glow in the sky. then we spent the next couple of hours on newport rd by suzuki garage watching it burn to the ground and worrying about the fish and parrotts.

Heh heh. Bad excuses even back then.

Didn't that happen weeks after the costly refit? I was a student at the time, and had only been thrown out of the place the night before.

What was the name of the computer games shop that shared the top floor next to the grapes with westside?

 

[Doctor]

...zanzibar was on fire.

I didn't do it...I wasn't there...no one can prove anything!

 

[Mrs M]

Was it the dept store shop that Maccy D replaced? I can't remember its name.

Thought I answered this last night, too much apple juice, must have answered it on a different post. Y

Yes it was called Bratt and Dyke, (severe de ja vous, convinced i must have posted answer last night)

 

[db]

What was the name of the computer games shop that shared the top floor next to the grapes with westside?

i asked this same question in another thread, and it didn't get an answer then.. it eventually became Disks & Discs, and moved over the road, opposite the Apollo cinema, but i can't for the life of me remember what it was called before the name change.. i'm sure it was owned by a guy called Andy, and his name was incorporated into the shop name..

i bought my first amiga from there.. an A500+ with the Captain Planet pack for £325!


edit: just found out that Disks & Discs have a website! who's going to e-mail them and ask them what they were called back in the day?

 

[wildwood]

Excellent! I got my A600 from there, but I think that was when the shop was downstairs, can't remember if it was where the hair dressers is now, or the old music shop.

Racking my brains now to remember the name.....

 

[MISS T]

i just phoned them, they say for the 12 years they were there, next to Grapes it was called Discs and disks

 

[db]

i just phoned them, they say for the 12 years they were there, next to Grapes it was called Discs and disks

i can't believe you phoned them! lol.. brilliant..

the person you spoke to is wrong, however.. i distinctly remember the name change, because i spent a lot of time explaining the difference between a disc and a disk to people who didn't "get" the new name.. i'm sure the guy who owned it was called andy, and looked a bit like tommy boyd..

 

[Toble]

i just phoned them, they say for the 12 years they were there, next to Grapes it was called Discs and disks

i can't believe you phoned them! lol.. brilliant..

the person you spoke to is wrong, however.. i distinctly remember the name change, because i spent a lot of time explaining the difference between a disc and a disk to people who didn't "get" the new name.. i'm sure the guy who owned it was called andy, and looked a bit like tommy boyd..

asked my boss..... its was either A+R or AR Computers.

 

[FooFighter]

I think it was (?) Rawlins who owns D&D and he had a shop in Hanley (ptooi) as well.

(I believe the Hanley shop had to close because of Sunday trading infringements)

He'd be the best one to speak to.
I may even pop into the shop on the way home and ask him.

*edit* closed due to too many break ins