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

basil

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1st record purchased was jeff beck Hi-Ho Silver lining...i think boots had to order it in for me.....
 
Gramaisc

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Florence said:
Ah Props! I remember it from my "youth". Off my head Fridays, failing to pull a variety of blokes. The fights. The garden. The "toilets". And being ejected at the end of the night by a tw*t of a bouncer. Happy days!
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I have read this several times - other than the venue ( and your "youth" ), what else is sadly missing?
 
Rikki

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cat_woman said:
The old traction engine and huge slide from the town park, they were real fun!
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Id completley forgot about these until i just read that. The memoriers have just come flooding back, just hope i hadn't forgotten them for a reason.
 
wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

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@cat_woman - Now THAT'S what i call a blast from the past. I loved the tractor! And the slide... my big brother broke his arm on that 3 years running. Oh happy days!

@Andreas - I'm up for the props revival night. lol
 
wmrcomputers

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cat_woman said:
Who learned to swim at the brine baths? I did!
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Ouch..... you've just shown your age!!! lol. I only know of the brine baths thanks to my dad.
Is it true you could lie still on the surface of the water as it was so dense with salt... or is my dad a billy bull******r?
 
Gramaisc

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The County Library up Friars' Terace. Just a great big shed full of books. It was fantastic. I used to go every few week or two and come out with the maximum of six that you were allowed - all great books. I once found one, about 1990, that had only been out once before and that was in 1932. I persuaded Mavis not to stamp it again with the promise that I would bring it back next week. You could even look through the card index yourself. No computers and so you could talk your way out of the odd fine. They even had real librarians there too. The current library set-up is a mere wishy-washy travesty of what went before it.
 
wmrcomputers

wmrcomputers

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Gramaisc said:
The County Library up Friars' Terace. Just a great big shed full of books. It was fantastic. I used to go every few week or two and come out with the maximum of six that you were allowed - all great books. I once found one, about 1990, that had only been out once before and that was in 1932. I persuaded Mavis not to stamp it again with the promise that I would bring it back next week. You could even look through the card index yourself. No computers and so you could talk your way out of the odd fine. They even had real librarians there too. The current library set-up is a mere wishy-washy travesty of what went before it.
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Was that the blue and white building? I've never been big on books, but used to borrow music from there
 
Gramaisc

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I'm not good at remembering colours but it was possibly mid-blue and white, or cream. Very 1960s utilitarian type architecture. It was next to the police garage at the time. The music section was upstairs in my day. Up some open teak steps with a dark blue plastic hand-rail - I do remember that colour. Before your time, probably, you could borrow LPs from there and they had to be transported in a special cardboard box. I still have one here - very handy at times.
 
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Someone, who may or may not have been me, used to borrow CDs and tape them for personal research purposes only, of course. This person used to photocopy the sleeve as a record of the track titles. One day he was caught by his boss, but, as luck would have it, it was one of the few discs where the tracks were only printed on the disc, and so that was face down on the copier. The boss was persuaded that the reason the disc was in there was that if you fed good quality catering grade foil through the paper feed a playable copy would result. I don't know if he ever found out the truth. We never spoke much afterwards.
 
mickyboy

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Gramaisc said:
Greatly missed.

The little second-hand bookshop where the disco shop is now, opposite the prison. Every Saturday morning you would find a gem in there. After a while he would know what you liked and you would be pointed at some box on the floor as you came in - never failed. I saw Bob Picken, the proprietor, in the town only last year and he still looks exactly the same.

County Woodware - an Alladin's cave of hardware items.

Motorcycle Mecca - that's just what it was!

Bagnall's model shop - Apollo on Marston Road is OK, but it's hard to build it back up again.

Wardstaff's - you're stuck with the big boys now.

I can't immediately think of anything that I was glad to see go, but I'm sure that I will at some point.
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County Woodware brings back great memories for me. If you remember the old Chapel street before the new market was built, when the road went down to St Mary's, there was a car park on the corner, then a house, then the church. I grew up in that house, 73-84 .Fond memories.

I really miss the old market, it had an atmosphere, unlike the current one.

Others missed from the town for me include Hindleys bakers in the precinct and on Crabree St was a butchers called Brown's (was a friend of the family), some of the best produce in the town in the 70's/early 80's
 
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The old market was the best, I got my first job there, as a Saturday girl.

As for the butchers, Browns that was where Brambles the sandwich shop was/is down by ethal austin, the butchers had a stall in the new market not sure if it is still there now.

John Anslow the butcher on the Sandon road used to be on Crabree st, but left when they refurbished the market as the rent went sky high.
 
Gramaisc

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mickyboy said:
County Woodware brings back great memories for me. If you remember the old Chapel street before the new market was built, when the road went down to St Mary's, there was a car park on the corner, then a house, then the church. I grew up in that house, 73-84 .Fond memories.

I really miss the old market, it had an atmosphere, unlike the current one.

Others missed from the town for me include Hindleys bakers in the precinct and on Crabree St was a butchers called Brown's (was a friend of the family), some of the best produce in the town in the 70's/early 80's
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Not too far from the cop shop, then? I remember standing in there waiting to report my motorbike stolen from that car park, when I suddenly remembered where I'd actually parked it!
 
Florence

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Not sadly missed at all - play parks built on tarmac. "Cracking your head open" was a right of passage. The element of danger is just mising these days!
 
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Florence said:
Not sadly missed at all - play parks built on tarmac. "Cracking your head open" was a right of passage. The element of danger is just mising these days!
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I don't remember it doing me much harm.
 
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