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Margaret Pilkington · 05-11-2011, 22:22

No Not the bug hut.......I am pretty sure that for a time(it might not have been that long a time)the place where Ray Lynden set up shop was Melias.

cashman · 05-11-2011, 23:04

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

No Not the bug hut.......I am pretty sure that for a time(it might not have been that long a time)the place where Ray Lynden set up shop was Melias.

Yeh may be right Margaret, but its really bugging me now.

where the hell was Melias? someone must remember that photo?

jaysay · 06-11-2011, 09:44

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Where Garth Dawson's is now......well that used to be Curry's Electrical shop.
I worked there when I left school in 1962. In the accounts department.......me, in the accounts department....what a laugh. I was pants at arithmetic!

As a mathematician you'd have made a very good nurse Margaret

jaysay · 06-11-2011, 09:49

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Originally Posted by cashman

The picture place yon was the Palace remember it early 50s, closed i think early 60s,that was were Rays shop was. The other picture place across road were Lloyds bank used to be was the Kings Hall (Bug Hut) with e Central Billard Hall Underneath,

The Palace which was opened by Ray as a supermarket type store, there were mainly concessionary outlets within that store, bet there's not many people remember the DIY store upstairs in that building, which I managed around 81/82, kalma to the first person who comes up with the name of that DIY store

Margaret Pilkington · 06-11-2011, 09:54

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Originally Posted by jaysay

As a mathematician you'd have made a very good nurse Margaret

Thank the Lord for that John.
I was absolutely useless in the accounts office...I was only fit to brew tea and run to the post....as for those big ledgers...they made me shudder!

jaysay · 06-11-2011, 10:40

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Thank the Lord for that John.
I was absolutely useless in the accounts office...I was only fit to brew tea and run to the post....as for those big ledgers...they made me shudder!

Mind you the brewing tea would have come in handy in later years

susie123 · 06-11-2011, 22:55

Aha! Just found a photo of Peel Street 1930s.and lo and behold there is a maypole, on the Market side, next to Fosters furs and robes (that's what it says on the shop). According the blurb they were demolished around 1960 when the market shops were built.

JEFF · 07-11-2011, 13:36

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Originally Posted by cashman

Yeh may be right Margaret, but its really bugging me now.

where the hell was Melias? someone must remember that photo?

Opposite Railway Hotel, but I am sure I can remember it being in the Palace building at one time, and there is something familiar about it being where Garth Dawsons is on Little Blackburn Road

Melias.jpg

claytonx · 07-11-2011, 14:13

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Originally Posted by JEFF

Opposite Railway Hotel, but I am sure I can remember it being in the Palace building at one time, and there is something familiar about it being where Garth Dawsons is on Little Blackburn Road

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If you check post 63 I think you will find we think it was at the corner of Little Blackburn Rd where you would turn in to Peel st where the buses came in from Clayton also from Huncoat

susie123 · 07-11-2011, 14:36

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Originally Posted by JEFF

Opposite Railway Hotel, but I am sure I can remember it being in the Palace building at one time, and there is something familiar about it being where Garth Dawsons is on Little Blackburn Road

Sorry should heve mentioned this before - my book has a picture of Melias on the corner of Eagle Street opposite the Railway Hotel in the 1920s. Buildings then sold for road widening.

And Claytonx I actually said in post 63 that in 1963 it was on the first corner on the left going up Little Blackburn Road, with EJ Riley's on the corner above. Below it going down towards Peel Street was Curry's,now Garth Dawson, as Margaret says.

That shop obviously moved about a bit!

Atarah · 07-11-2011, 15:38

This shows Melia's where probably most folk remember it, on the corner of Little Blackburn Road and Bridge Street.

Melia's Grocers/Melia's Ltd became popular as a grocers and tea dealers from the 1920s to the 1960s alongside Maypole and Home and Colonial Stores. These grocery stores were forced to amalgamate with the Home and Colonial Stores company due to competition from bigger National stores.

There were branches in Howden, Melton Mowbray, Chester, Leyland and many more towns (inc Accrington) and cities across the UK. The store sold general groceries but often specialised in tea. The company also packaged its own butter and sugar.

cashman · 07-11-2011, 15:45

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Originally Posted by Atarah

This shows Melia's where probably most folk remember it, on the corner of Little Blackburn Road and Bridge Street.

Melia's Grocers/Melia's Ltd became popular as a grocers and tea dealers from the 1920s to the 1960s alongside Maypole and Home and Colonial Stores. These grocery stores were forced to amalgamate with the Home and Colonial Stores company due to competition from bigger National stores.

There were branches in Howden, Melton Mowbray, Chester, Leyland and many more towns (inc Accrington) and cities across the UK. The store sold general groceries but often specialised in tea. The company also packaged its own butter and sugar.

Thats were i thought it was, was it ever were the Palace Cinema was Atarah?

jaysay · 07-11-2011, 17:47

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Originally Posted by Atarah

This shows Melia's where probably most folk remember it, on the corner of Little Blackburn Road and Bridge Street.

Melia's Grocers/Melia's Ltd became popular as a grocers and tea dealers from the 1920s to the 1960s alongside Maypole and Home and Colonial Stores. These grocery stores were forced to amalgamate with the Home and Colonial Stores company due to competition from bigger National stores.

There were branches in Howden, Melton Mowbray, Chester, Leyland and many more towns (inc Accrington) and cities across the UK. The store sold general groceries but often specialised in tea. The company also packaged its own butter and sugar.

I'm nearly sure they had a stall in Blackburn Market hall, in the 60s, my mate Gordon Addison, who worked for the coop left to take over as manager.

Margaret Pilkington · 07-11-2011, 17:50

Maybe it was Maypole and not Melias who had the old picture place? I'm all confused now....but I do know it was a supermarket for a short while before Ray Lynden took it on.......and it began with an M.......no of course it wasn't Morrisons!

cashman · 07-11-2011, 18:36

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Maybe it was Maypole and not Melias who had the old picture place? I'm all confused now....but I do know it was a supermarket for a short while before Ray Lynden took it on.......and it began with an M.......no of course it wasn't Morrisons!

Yeh aint as confused as me Margaret, i suspect it may have been Maypole, but i can't sodding remember, tis a beggar owd age.