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4 hours ago, Winchester White said:

God yes! Sat there drinking your pop straight across from a stall selling massive granny knickers. Happy days. If mum was flush we would go to that place downstairs outside, was it Russell's?

My mum used to take us to Russells quite a lot, loved it in there. I went in about 6 or 7 years ago, and it was a bit shit sadly

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1 hour ago, Escobarp said:

Shopping in originals

looking on in astonishment that people actually ate in The cafe on moor lane Bus station 

School swimming lessons in farnworth baths 
 

drinking in the white lion whilst significantly under age before wanderers home  matches 

I always wondered why people bought 'plate' meat pies from there to take home...

Wondered if you could reach into (and nick what you wanted) from the little cig/toffee shop at the end of the cafe.. was there a doorbell? By the time you'd psyched yourself up to rob one of the women would dash down to serve you 😕

The cafe in Farnworth precinct was good for a young kid with simple tastes (chips and egg and salad cream) The Pat-a-Cake on the main road was good an' all...

Farny baths was a mainstay of our youth - cheese crunchies from the vending machine, space invader machine from the 70s, pushing each other into the one tap cold shower, inflatables on Saturdays - the lifeguards amusing themselves by knocking kids off them with full power fire hose jet...

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4 minutes ago, Rudy’s Message said:

Shopped in Norton Barrie with my first full time wage. Bought myself a Lyle and Scott V-neck jumper for £80. 
me mam washed it and shrunk it. 

I had my own business when I was 19. Made a fortune and spent most of my Friday’s in norton barrie getting new clobber for the weekend with them sending stuff across from the wilmslow store for my in a taxi If they had my size there. 
 

latterly it became shite. Is it still in the market place or has it shut down now? 

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@Rudy’s MessageI think it's a given that for any lad who liked their clobber, from the 50's to the present, if you want something laundering/ironing etc. properly then do it yourself...to this day I'm a dab hand with an iron or needle and thread due to wanting to end my mam's reign of sartorial atrocities against my clothes...

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I got approved for a credit account at Orangels when I got my first full time job (£98 pw...£85 take home after a fish and chips and four Stella lunch on Friday) - never got owt as I worked out for a couple of pairs of keks and shirts and some Nicholas Deakins I'd have been in hock to them for about three years...

Preferred to settle for less with cold hard cash at RipRap or D-Koy...

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9 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

I had my own business when I was 19. Made a fortune and spent most of my Friday’s in norton barrie getting new clobber for the weekend with them sending stuff across from the wilmslow store for my in a taxi If they had my size there. 
 

latterly it became shite. Is it still in the market place or has it shut down now? 

I honestly didn’t know it was still going. Didn’t know they had relocated. 

6 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

@Rudy’s MessageI think it's a given that for any lad who liked their clobber, from the 50's to the present, if you want something laundering/ironing etc. properly then do it yourself...to this day I'm a dab hand with an iron or needle and thread due to wanting to end my mam's reign of sartorial atrocities against my clothes...

Yeah I learned the hard way. I still bring it up from time to time. She swears it wasnt wool. 

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1 minute ago, Youri McAnespie said:

I got approved for a credit account at Orangels when I got my first full time job (£98 pw...£85 take home after a fish and chips and four Stella lunch on Friday) - never got owt as I worked out for a couple of pairs of keks and shirts and some Nicholas Deakins I'd have been in hock to them for about three years...

Preferred to settle for less with cold hard cash at RipRap or D-Koy...

Stolen from ivor as well 

nostalgia is flowing. Great idea for a thread youri 👍🏼

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3 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

I got approved for a credit account at Orangels when I got my first full time job (£98 pw...£85 take home after a fish and chips and four Stella lunch on Friday) - never got owt as I worked out for a couple of pairs of keks and shirts and some Nicholas Deakins I'd have been in hock to them for about three years...

Preferred to settle for less with cold hard cash at RipRap or D-Koy...

Loved a pair of deakinsClark’s sole was shite though.

Stolen from Ivor rings a bell, where was it?

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Anyone remember that geezers clothes shop in Bolton Arndale called "Clobber"? it was directly facing the fountain/budgies, i think the same premises were used by "Stolen from Ivor" at some point in the 70's.

I used to hammer that clothes shop at the top end of Bank St in the early 80's "Magna Carta" it was the only shop in Bolton that you could buy Matinique T-shirts.

Mmmm nice

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28 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Preferred to settle for less with cold hard cash at RipRap or D-Koy...

Don't forget Filth up near the train station, next to Barry Bennett's.

They only had about 20 items of clothing in, but the owners were cool, you could smoke weed in there and buy trips off them. They also sold "Death" cigarettes that had a skull n crossbones on the packet, so they made you look super-cool.

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19 minutes ago, Duck Egg said:

Magna Carta was another clothing shop I just remembered. Next door to SFI?

Three storeys of books in Sweetens

Puppies for sale in the pet shop window off great Moor street

My mate had a Saturday job in Sweetens. His stories about the old blokes buying mucky books early Saturday mornings were ace.

See it’s not Waterstones that killed off the independent book shop, it’s XHamster.

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Jjb bottom end of churchgate

Presume it was one of the first shops

Puma Vilas and atps

And Gibson's on deansgate

Near whittakers, where my school shoes came from

 

Saturday morning for me was shopping with mum, who had to be there early to get on folds road car park before anybody else was on the road

Wait half an hour for shops to be open

Get a book - enid blyton normally  -from the stall in the market hall and then a pie and a vimto

Good times

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Adults opposite the original Argos always stocked Lacoste, & Pringle.

My 1st Lyle & Scott came from the sport shop that was down past the brass cat near an old cinama (first seen jaws in there 76). Levi stonewash were Burton I think, addidas forest hills were gibsons sports.

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