Noticed Edwin P Lees has bit the dust yesterday...

 

What else has gone never to be seen again?

 

Burnden obviously...

 

My old man reckoned we used to have two train stations in town, one on Great Moor Street - before my time.

 

I do remember the main station being over the road from the present one, used to have a coal fire in the ticket office....

 

Anyone else with any more nostalgia?

 

I know it's been done to death already but...

 

A pint for anyone who has a picture of the budgie cage in the Arndale

Simon One.

Stolen From Ivor.

 

and JJB when it was on Churchgate,

 

Coppering up for clobber as an 11 year old at those places...

Hartigans on Morris Green Lane,best chippy in Bolton. Miniscule portions though

 

 

They were Shite the puddings weren;t  Hollands

 

 

 

Plus his step son committed suicide cos he bullied him Never went in after

 

 

Jim and Bettys was miles better.

Edited February 28, 201412 yr by oggybwfc

Talibs. Bought my first denim jacket from there.

X-Records when it was down near the Alma.

 

For Great Lever, Lever Edge and the Morris Green lot - when TSB had a bank on the corner of Green Lane/Rishton Lane - we used to mull over how we could rob it (when empty) - too many Clint Eastwood films I think

They were Shite the puddings weren;t  Hollands

 

 

 

Plus his step son committed suicide cos he bullied him Never went in after

 

 

Jim and Bettys was miles better.

Aye,but what was Jim's surname,a bag of dry roasted if you remember that one..........................

EAW Jewllers for the coffin dodgers on here

Aye,but what was Jim's surname,a bag of dry roasted if you remember that one..........................

 

 

Charnock

Simon One.

Stolen From Ivor.

 

and JJB when it was on Churchgate,

 

Coppering up for clobber as an 11 year old at those places...

 

 

puma vilas from there

 

dam yankee cords and a tank top

Edited February 28, 201412 yr by Casino

aitch jumpers

 

carrs pasties in the rose hill on a saturday night

Charnock

 

smartarse  

 

right,what about bernard and margaret's opposite the old filth shop on st helen's rd ?  double or quits on this buster

and that scruffy owd fcuker pushing his supermarket trolley round moses gate

You mean Jeff?  Big bloke, beard, brown overcoat. He used to do some serious trolley pushing down Bradshawgate.

My mum used to make him a brew when she worked at the estate agents in town. I think he was schizophrenic or bipolar, either way she said he was alright on his good days but she didn't bother if he was on a bad one.

Wonder if he's still alive

We used to call it bonzas, 

 

JM used to send his mam down there with a fruit bowl and get

 

 

Double chips, pudding, fish,and peas.

 

 

Then go in Rupert for a Slimline tonic before the match

We used to call it bonzas, 

 

JM used to send his mam down there with a fruit bowl and get

 

 

Double chips, pudding, fish,and peas.

 

 

Then go in Rupert for a Slimline tonic before the match

 

 

quality. Bernard and Margaret moved up Rmasbottom when they sold up,cracking people and excellent chippy. do you remember the little whitt double who took over and stood on a beer crate whilst serving ?

quality. Bernard and Margaret moved up Rmasbottom when they sold up,cracking people and excellent chippy. do you remember the little whitt double who took over and stood on a beer crate whilst serving ?

Stopped going in,

 

 

What about English Chippy on corner between Derby and Pilky?

Stopped going in,

 

 

What about English Chippy on corner between Derby and Pilky?

 

 

do you mean Gaz Hilton's mums ?  

You mean Jeff?

 

got to be honest, we never exchanged names

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Lewis's. But what was it before that ?

do you mean Gaz Hilton's mums ?  

 

 

Yep   HBWHT?

Yep   HBWHT?

 

Flaming BIG !!!!!

got to be honest, we never exchanged names

I only know because my mother's barking and talks to folk to be fair

Whiteheads on Deansgate closing was a big loss to this town.

The Joke Shop on Deasgate next to the chippy.

Studio 4 on Bradshawgate entrance to the Arndale.

Scholes & Scholes tailors

Breightmet Electrics

Coopers Eggs, now Metro Tyres

Edited March 1, 201412 yr by Breightmet Boy

I was going to say the sherbert & liquorice factory down halliwell/Astley bridge near the cemetery, but apparently it's still there!

 

Memories as a kid messing about down there looking for freebies!

Joe Smith's Sports

Joe Smith's Sports

At Tonge Fold next door to the Chinese chippy?

Kew House Chicken shop near the original Boydells - thought, in my childlike mind, it was because there was always a queue...

 

There was a paint shop behind - Orrells, had a elephant on the architrave...Sports shop next door, used to sell dubbin.

Worked at Orrels for a couple of years used to have to call the boss Mr Josh 

Edited March 1, 201412 yr by briannz