Boltonian Checklist...

[Whitestar]

Benny's jeans stall on Bolton market anyone?

[ErnestTurnip]

Walking all the way up St Helens Rd to Walsh's, convincing yourself it actually was a shop, going in and being asked what size you were only for the gent in an apron to look at your feet and tut and say you were wrong.

Need a mortgage for some v-ripple these days.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

I popped over to the Reebok shop a couple of times in Bradley Fold.

[Escobarp]

8 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

I popped over to the Reebok shop a couple of times in Bradley Fold.

My mates mum worked there. Used to get some bargains. Although most were saved for the PE teachers the arse licking cunt that he was 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Just now, Escobarp said:

My mates mum worked there. Used to get some bargains. Although most were saved for the PE teachers the arse licking cunt that he was 

Got a right comfy pair once for running in. Shame it's gone now.

[Rudy]

Did Wanderers have a shop on the precinct many moons ago?

[TrickyTrotter]

Visit to Bolton Aquarium.

Walk across the old railway bridge between Great Moor Street and Trinity Street to llok at the trains.

Edited November 11, 2019 by TrickyTrotter

[TrickyTrotter]

7 minutes ago, Rudy’s Message said:

Did Wanderers have a shop on the precinct many moons ago?

Remember the one in the Market Place 

Edited November 11, 2019 by TrickyTrotter

[Zico]

3 hours ago, Spider said:

Waiting for a glimpse of Jimmy Savile in the Bolton Marathon 

(This brought courtesy of Horwich on Facebook)

My grandad couldn't contain his excitement for this, was looking forward to it for weeks

We stood outside nibblers for ages

[Not in Crawley]

Yeah I was there for Saville in the Bolton Marathon running down plodder lane.

[Traf]

1 hour ago, Casino said:

Jjb bottom end of churchgate

Presume it was one of the first shops

Puma Vilas and atps

Any of you ever play squash on the courts behind JJB?

[Whitestar]

Used to run it with a big cigar in his mouth, was impressed at the time🤔

[Spider]

5 minutes ago, Whitestar said:

Used to run it with a big cigar in his mouth, was impressed at the time🤔

It was probably a petrified turd he'd pulled out of some corpse's arse at Leeds General

[Rudy]

4 hours ago, Spider said:

Waiting for a glimpse of Jimmy Savile in the Bolton Marathon 

(This brought courtesy of Horwich on Facebook)

Sir Jimmy Saville. Have some bloody respect. 

[Youri McAnespie]

Did they ever dig the c*nt up? Always have doubts if someone wants to be encased in 80 tonnes of concrete in their grave...

And surely it was up Plodder Lane (the Bolton Beast - the hill, not Savile) not down..?

[Traf]

Up Plodder, right onto Smethurst Lane, over the hill and the downhill to Hulton Lane fields.

[Spider]

1 minute ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Did they ever dig the c*nt up? Always have doubts if someone wants to be encased in 80 tonnes of concrete in their grave...

And surely it was up Plodder Lane (the Bolton Beast - the hill, not Savile) not down..?

I think they did

He'd asked to be buried upright facing the North Sea near Scarborough (I think). Something daft.

I expect they just chucked whatever they dug up in a landfill

[Traf]

We used to stand at the top of Watson Rd and watch them go past on Plodder Lane.

[Youri McAnespie]

I remember his lavish headstone - complete with an etching of him in his nonce pomp and the legend 'it was good while it lasted' got unceremoniously smashed up and chucked in several skips...

[Winchester White]

Remember seeing the taxi ride to Blackpool on a few occasions, that was Saville and all wasn't it?

[Escobarp]

5 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Remember seeing the taxi ride to Blackpool on a few occasions, that was Saville and all wasn't it?

Does that not happen in most cities/towns? Not to Blackpool but a day out for the disabled kiddies and stuff courtesy of the taxi drivers?

didn't think it was linked to saville 

[Winchester White]

3 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Does that not happen in most cities/towns? Not to Blackpool but a day out for the disabled kiddies and stuff courtesy of the taxi drivers?

didn't think it was linked to saville 

Not sure mate, I could have sworn my mum said it was organised by him, they were all black cabs from Manchester. 

[mickbrown]

2 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

Christ, I learnt to swim at both Moss Street and Farnworth baths.

Next time the kids moan about there not being a slide/outdoor section/wave machine not working....

Did all my badges at Moss Street baths.

Farnworth baths was proper posh in comparison

[Escobarp]

6 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

Not sure mate, I could have sworn my mum said it was organised by him, they were all black cabs from Manchester. 

Used to do it in Salford when I was a kid for sure and still do it now up here as well. Fuck knows where they take them but it’s a great effort from the black cab drivers 

 

I do now

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/best-in-edinburgh/whats-on-news/edinburgh-taxi-trade-childrens-outing-16405764

Edited November 11, 2019 by Escobarp

[mickbrown]

50 minutes ago, Traf said:

Any of you ever play squash on the courts behind JJB?

Watched my dad play there. He told me it used to be a cinema and the projectionist hung himself there.

Got my first proper football boots (i.e not Woolworth ones) from there -  a pair of Puma Dalglish