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I have read this several times - other than the venue ( and your "youth" ), what else is sadly missing?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!
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.cat_woman said:The old traction engine and huge slide from the town park, they were real fun!
Ouch..... you've just shown your age!!! lol. I only know of the brine baths thanks to my dad.cat_woman said:Who learned to swim at the brine baths? I did!
Was that the blue and white building? I've never been big on books, but used to borrow music from thereGramaisc 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.
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.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.
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!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
What were you the rest of the week?cat_woman said:The old market was the best, I got my first job there, as a Saturday girl.
Which one is you?cat_woman said:Who learned to swim at the brine baths? I did!
That is bordering on incitement.ToriRat said:1930 oooh cheeky, i think sumones gonna get a cuffy
I don't remember it doing me much harm.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!
... that will be the concussion!! lolGramaisc said:I don't remember it doing me much harm.