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Cheap As Chips?

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Sue's on Rishton Lane, Whitt.

 

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Corner of Rishton Lane & Parkfield Rd?

 

Near the bottom of Settle St?

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she was half chips half rice and proper bonny.

Do you mean she was mixed race or that she was a lesbian?

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Corner of Rishton Lane & Parkfield Rd?

 

Near the bottom of Settle St?

 

That's the one.

Lunch yesterday, central Manc, jacket with cottage cheese, £1.85. Fucking change from 2 quid!

'John' was probably still knocking about then though, he's sell urchins like us handfuls for pennies, I think he had a bit of a liking for the old rice wine ;) r.i.p.

 

Sue has run a much tighter ship since he popped his clogs - that said, she seems to burn quite a trail down to the Grosvenor Casino (fomer Sainsburys) most nights after she's shut up shop.

 

That's why she wanted cash. She might have been £1.61 short of another chip (gambling). You've just cost her a fortune with your dining on credit behaviour.

Youri out.

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We used to be banned from having cottage cheese, in any form, for our meal, when I worked in catering in the mid-90s...

 

What's changed now it's probably pence for pence the cheapest 'natural' protein going?

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That's why she wanted cash. She might have been £1.61 short of another chip (gambling). You've just cost her a fortune with your dining on credit behaviour.

Youri out.

 

I offered her a tip in lieu, always bet on black, but no dice. :(

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I was only 20p short ffs - it used to be 45p for chips at Eustace Street back in the day, that's not inflation, it's daylight robbery.

That's the one.

Used to go there in the early to mid 70s occasionally when I was round at my nana's on a Saturday. In fact, I briefly lived next door but 1 to it as my grandparents had the bakery that was there then, but that was in the 50s & early 60s

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Interesting that, before my time, but It's an ambulance chasers and kebab shop now...

 

There used to be a shop over the road that sold solely Catholic paraphenalia in the 80's - how times change...

Used to be an old skool Ladbroke's next door before they modernised and shifted up the road.

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Put my first (without a proxy) bet on in there, the day after Fred West topped himself...

 

Won at evens iirc - thought I'd found a career...:(

Used to be an old skool Ladbroke's next door before they modernised and shifted up the road.

There was a hardware shop there at one point, from what I remember.

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I think you're thinkig of 'Bulloughs' further up the road....It was a proper 'Open all Hours' type place - next door to 'Drivers' toffee shop.

 

'Kin ell, this makes us all seem like we lived during the Victorian era. :)

I think you're thinkig of 'Bulloughs' further up the road....It was a proper 'Open all Hours' type place - next door to 'Drivers' toffee shop.

 

'Kin ell, this makes us all seem like we lived during the Victorian era. :)

I'm talking 1960s...

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Oh, Ok, there was a Co-Op further up, but 60s is well before my time.

I think that Ladbrokes used to be a car spares place 25 years ago, then it turned into a mini market type shop

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The car spares shop was formerly a telly shop (Slarcks?) , in the interim it was a video shop, my mate wanted to pinch the 1/3 size cardboard cut-out of Julia Roberts (in 'Pretty Woman') and poke a hole in her and use her as some kind of sex doll :)

Used to live thirty yards from there. For a good portion of my youth...aged I'd guess from 9 to 13

When we were relegated in the early 70s, Division St was renamed 3rd Division St by some wag with a marker pen.

We had fish and chips in Curlies in Horwich last Friday 3 haddock and chips a coffee a strawberry milkshake and a lemonade for 26 quid

 

There was a piano player on too,

 

It was alreet

Took my mum and grandaughter Thursday lunch.

 

Was surprised, it was absolutely rammed.

 

Those haddock are lovely. 

Took my mum and grandaughter Thursday lunch.

 

Was surprised, it was absolutely rammed.

 

Those haddock are lovely. 

the breakfast there are good too called a few times when passing

 

get a few dog walkers in with there dogs

Curleys Sunday breakfast with the piano playing is a cracking hang over cure

bennetts lane chippy £1.20 also the best chippy in bowton

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