On 25th Nov 2015 4:09pm, mickw said:
The Maypole in Gosford Street was memorable experience to me as a kid
I think you mean Far Gosford Street? (No.69) ![Smile Smile](../resource/emoticons/Smile.gif)
dutchman
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Wed 25th Nov 2015 8:31pm
On 25th Nov 2015 4:09pm, mickw said:
The Maypole in Gosford Street was memorable experience to me as a kid
I think you mean Far Gosford Street? (No.69) ![]() |
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Wed 25th Nov 2015 8:44pm
On 25th Nov 2015 8:00pm, Roger Turner said:
Betty Preece (wife of Ivor Preece) Precinct by the bird cage
I think you mean City Arcade ![]() |
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Wed 25th Nov 2015 9:42pm
On 20th Nov 2015 2:25pm, dutchman said:
Hi Janey
Although I can't remember it, my hubby says there was a chip shop halfway up Hearsall Lane. My sister has come up with some information about your other query and I will put it in the Shops of Yore thread.![]() ![]() |
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Roger T
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Wed 25th Nov 2015 10:12pm
Yeah that`s right - the birds in the precinct wouldn`t be in cages.
Just as a matter of interest was the old arcade called the City Arcade. I seem to remember Stones (?) a radio shop was there in fact I think I bought a "Dansette" record player there. |
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dutchman
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Wed 25th Nov 2015 10:34pm
Thanks Janey
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Thu 26th Nov 2015 8:07am
J & F Stone were at 4 Market Way ![]() |
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Roger T
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Thu 26th Nov 2015 11:40am
I am sorry MR, my memory is hazy, but at least I got Stones right.
I think I am trying to point out the period just after the war, before reconstruction started.
i.e. Smithford Street, was still there, bombed to smithereens of course and if you went downhill from Broadgate, you found Woolies on your left and if I remember rightly you could walk through it and out of a side door into some sort of bombed out arcade and Stones was in that arcade (is it likely that became Market Way or was it always named so?)
I`m talking about the period 1947-51/53 (away to sea training school 1951, then away to sea in 1953 - so only saw bits of the reconstruction).
For a bit more local colour - continue the walk down Smithford Street, found "Johnny Bausor" butcher, where my Grandmother bought her meat, tucked in a little short bit of a street on the right hand side behind the Co-op, then on to Alwoods Atkins and Turton, where we bought our groceries on the left hand side opposite St.John`s Church. |
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Janey
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Thu 26th Nov 2015 12:20pm
Hi all ![]() |
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dutchman
Spon End |
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Thu 26th Nov 2015 1:09pm
On 25th Nov 2015 10:12pm, Roger Turner said:
Just as a matter of interest was the old arcade called the City Arcade. I seem to remember Stones (?) a radio shop was there in fact I think I bought a "Dansette" record player there.
That's correct Roger, Stones was just inside the entrance to the old city arcade on the right hand side as you entered.
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Thu 26th Nov 2015 1:15pm
On 26th Nov 2015 12:20pm, Janey said:
Am I right in thinking there was a lovely little bakery at the top of Craven Street?
Pails Bakery has its own thread |
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Thu 26th Nov 2015 1:19pm
On 26th Nov 2015 1:09pm, dutchman said:
Yes, prewar, 12 City Arcade, Smithford Street On 25th Nov 2015 10:12pm, Roger Turner said:
Just as a matter of interest was the old arcade called the City Arcade. I seem to remember Stones (?) a radio shop was there in fact I think I bought a "Dansette" record player there.
That's correct Roger, Stones was just inside the entrance to the old city arcade on the right hand side as you entered.
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Kaga simpson
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Thu 26th Nov 2015 4:13pm
Midland Red Gas street and where the h--l was that and the name of that warehouse never worried me for over sixty years and now you have me scratching my head, a guy that suffered from prickly heat, and were was Tiptons? were they tea?
I walked through the city centre several tines a day through the fifties, can't remember a damn street, yet remember Butcher Row, suppose I was escaping from my mother in the thirties, trying to get closer to a woman in the fifties. My excuse. |
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Roger T
Torksey |
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Thu 26th Nov 2015 4:17pm
Now my memory has been vindicated,
Has anybody any pictures of Smithford Street, prior to the reconstruction?
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Thu 26th Nov 2015 5:49pm
Smithford Street does have its own thread and there's an image of the entrance to the City Arcade on page 2 of the Food Office thread ![]() |
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Thu 26th Nov 2015 5:53pm
On 26th Nov 2015 4:13pm, Kaga simpson said:
Gas street and where the h--l was that
Rob's maps : click on 1937, top left hand corner, just below Abbotts Lane ![]() |
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