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[jeep]

Jim Grimshaw taught me to swim at High St baths mid 70s.

 

[Escobarp]

Is it just me that has no idea who the swimming teacher was? 

[Traf]

I don't who taught me, other than the fact it was a woman

 

[jayjayoghani]

Went to Sharples and pretty sure the swimming teacher got sent down for being a nonce. Surname began with S. Anyone else confirm?

Edited November 12, 2019 by jayjayoghani

[bolty58]

On 11/11/2019 at 03:43, Boby Brno said:

Bolton Palais. (Sprung dance floor)

Nevada (Robert Knight on TOTP)

Tennessee Pancake house ( Newport Street)

Tiggis (loved the garlic dip) 

Stolen from Ivor ( they also had one in Manchester)

Toggnarellis (they also had one in Farnworth)

Budgies in the Arndale ( no one else had them)

Bromwich Street training ground ( Pele trained there)

Burnden Park (Eusebio played there)

Bolton Marathon (Everyone cheered Jimmy Saville)

Bolton Marathon ( everyone thought Elton Welsby was a c**t)

Haslam’s Maternity Home, Chorley New Road (where I was born)

The Va Va (Before Wigan Casino)

The Water Place, Henry’s drive through, Prestons of Bolton, Bolton Mountain Rescue, Bolton Museum, Steaks on a plane, Dereks cafe, The Lamplighter, Smithills Coaching  House, The Last Drop.. etc. etc.

 

 

 

So much there saved me the effort mate! Me too at Haslams. Wedding reception meal at The Lamplighter ('do' at the Trotters so I'd have to add that to your list!)

[Guest]

2 hours ago, bolty58 said:

So much there saved me the effort mate! Me too at Haslams. Wedding reception meal at The Lamplighter ('do' at the Trotters so I'd have to add that to your list!)

Another for Haslams

Part of which is now Retreat, where I find myself every couple of weeks

[DirtySanchez]

The one-eyed piranha in the aquarium 

[kent_white]

1 minute ago, DirtySanchez said:

The one-eyed piranha in the aquarium 

Plus those steps up to the museum seeming like climbing Mount Everest when you are a nipper.

[Not in Crawley]

Awww Smithills Coaching House - sad they’ve turn it into houses, was my first weekend job, which seemed to mainly be sweeping peas up off the floor. Not great food but was ok. 

[Mannyroader]

UCP on Bradshawgate for lovers of tripe.

[Burndens Bogs]

2 hours ago, boltondiver said:

Another for Haslams

Part of which is now Retreat, where I find myself every couple of weeks

Aye, i'm another one from the Haslams conveyor belt.

13 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Awww Smithills Coaching House - sad they’ve turn it into houses, was my first weekend job, which seemed to mainly be sweeping peas up off the floor. Not great food but was ok. 

Used it frequently when i used to live round there & missed it when it closed.

It certainly wasn't fine dining, but the steak or mixed grill was usually a decent feed and it wasn't expensive.

Shame that lardy bent councillor was involved.

[Guest]

19 minutes ago, Mannyroader said:

UCP on Bradshawgate for lovers of tripe.

Can’t be many of those!

[Mannyroader]

1 minute ago, boltondiver said:

Can’t be many of those!

Which is why it closed down donkeys years ago. 

[Carlos]

8 hours ago, jayjayoghani said:

Went to Sharples and pretty sure the swimming teacher got sent down for being a nonce. Surname began with S. Anyone else confirm?

When I went, there was a Sharrock who liked looking at the girls in the changing rooms. Is all I'm saying.

[Marc505]

Anyone else go to Rivi (upper) around the time of a certain PE teacher who used to like to feel if your back was wet or not coming out of the shower?

He may or may not have killed someone in an amateur boxing match once too.

[Sweep]

1 hour ago, Carlos said:

When I went, there was a Sharrock who liked looking at the girls in the changing rooms. Is all I'm saying.

we also had our own "noncey" teacher at Primary School did we not?   

[Carlos]

You aren't from Bolton if you haven't been nonced up by a teacher.

We had the option of being touched by Mr Donley at Moorgate or twatted by Mr Smith at Tonge Moor.

[Zico]

when you could rent albums on cassette from Bolton library

[Traf]

9 minutes ago, ZicoKelly said:

when you could rent albums on cassette from Bolton library

And then copy them at home.

[Not in Crawley]

Still got my Bolton library cassette copy of gold mother by James in the garage!

[MickyD]

Leon's Cafe on corner of Manchester Road and Bridgeman Place. Used to spend the hour between finishing Day Release and starting Night School in there. Great juke box.

Beryl Stone taught me too. Wednesday nights at Moss Street's Bolton Dolphins Swimming Club.

SMC (Shirt Manufacturing Co) shop which sold fancy Northern Soul type shirts.

Railway bridges, one between Johnson St and Trinity St and the other between Moncrieffe St and Manchester Road. Great for standing over the old steam trains and then going back to grandma's to have shit taken out of your eyes!

Hot Beef Barms at Cafe Boulevard in Market Hall. Usually cheap if you were a mate of Jonathon, the owner's son.

 

[RONNIE PHILLIPS]

6 hours ago, Mannyroader said:

UCP on Bradshawgate for lovers of tripe.

My mum worked in there. 

[Rudy]

4 hours ago, Carlos said:

You aren't from Bolton if you haven't been nonced up by a teacher.

We had the option of being touched by Mr Donley at Moorgate or twatted by Mr Smith at Tonge Moor.

Our PE teacher got caught spying on girls in the changing room, when he was rumbled they took his pc from home with thousands of indecent images.  Think he ended up doing a bit of bird for it.

Mr Curran Mount St Joseph’s 2003 ish. Was on the front of the BEN.

suprisingly enough he was a decent PE teacher, like that one off Kes but nonceier

[Traf]

Aren't all PE teachers a bit nonce-y?

[freds dad]

Waiting at the Black Horse Bus stop in Farnworth for the X60 bus to Blackpool and it sailing past as it was full.

Also the Co-op in Farnworth. A magnificent red brick building with the toy department in the basement.