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

If we're shopping now, Rip Rap

 

During my first full-time jobs I'd always make a beeline for Rip-Rap for a shirt or other garment (and a mixtape if there was a bit of change) for the weekend - used to spend up to a quarter of my wage on something fit only for dishrags after the weekend's antics...

 

There used to be a tall blonde girl worked in there that probably starred in more than a few of lads my age wank fantasies.

 

There also used to be D-Koy round the corner and a few other places, Orangles for example for yer Nicholas Deakins on the never-never...

 

What the fuck happened? Why has it turned into some post-apocalyptic wasteland within 16/18 or so years?

Edited March 1, 201412 yr by Youri McAnespie

There used to be a tall blonde girl worked in there that probably starred in more than a few of lads my age wank fantasies.

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Ha ha I know her! I'd completely forgotten about tgat shop and the mixtapes

I saw her a few years back, she's still got it, and, without being modest, I think I've matured into her league now...

 

Unfortunately I'm taken atm.

 

indoor cricket village on shifnall st,run by Howard Wilkinson's brother Martin.

 

went from a lock in there directly to bristol rovers when they played at Twerton Park. Think Trevor Morgan scored for them,god I was ill that day

Gibsons sports. bought my first ellesse t-shirt from there in 1983,£24.99. Also got my first adidas Columbia from there. Shit hot messing about with those pegs

Not Bolton, but Joey Banglas in Farnworth

Not Bolton, but Joey Banglas in Farnworth

Did many a runner from there in my younger days.

what was the cinema called on churchgate ? did that turn into JJB ?

what was the cinema called on churchgate ? did that turn into JJB ?

ABC

ABC

Cheers pal.   Leigh White went to Colwyn Bay v Barrow today matey,expect a pissed up tale in a few hours

Army and navy on Bradshaw gate , barber on corner of Weston st, loads of fucking pubs, the soul has gone from Bolton...having said that I now reside in Bamber Bridge......it's not much better ...

Singers on Great Moor St

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

Proper Tailors, when I first started boozing there must have been at least a dozen outlets where you could buy a "Made to measure suit"

west end chippy

Where do punk rockers gather now?

 

Edited March 2, 201412 yr by no balls

Nevada....

Nevada....

 

No that's still there, The Navada got burn't down though

I'm always baffled as to why a Tailor's shop on Nelson square, complete with porthole windows, was shut for 2/3 of my life until it got reinvented as Thee Spinning Mule?

 

Regarding NB about the punks and crusties - the snooker club in Farnworth, since the fountains and Queen's Park lost their cache...

 

Finally, no Budgies - no pint

No that's still there, The Navada got burn't down though

 

 

I'm confused

I'm confused

#spellcheck

No that's still there, The Navada got burn't down though

Cunt...

Cunt...

 

 

 

Woah,  You were talking about the first place I played with tits and fingered a bird

 

 

The least you could do was get the name correct

 

 

 

 

Had a Nav card at 16 so I could get in x rated films.Plus it made getting served in town a piece of piss

Edited March 2, 201412 yr by oggybwfc

Woah,  You were talking about the first place I played with tits and fingered a bird

 

 

The least you could do was get the name correct

 

 

 

 

Had a Nav card at 16 so I could get in x rated films.Plus it made getting served in town a piece of piss

 

:lol: sounds about right...

Changing the topic somewhat - First pub you got served in? Mine was the Doffcocker - pints of Lowenbrau, full of ale and bravado went over the road to try my luck again and got promptly told to piss off...