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Old 20-02-2016, 09:41   #16
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I think that the supermarket at the Broadway end of Union Street was Tesco's and what is now Argos was originally built to be a supermarket[I][I] (FineFare I think) but the company was taken over by an other supermarket before it opened and the new company never opened it. It stood empty for some time before Shoppers World took it over.
Did Wardleworths not used to be were Argos is, seem to remember it being up there but possibly wrong in as to exact building. ( I know it wasn't a supermarket )
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Old 20-02-2016, 09:51   #17
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No, they were the shop next to Argos. On the corner of Bank St.
I spent many a happy hour browsing in there and mourn the passing of Wardleworths and Seed and Gabbutts(Blackburn)......another one of my haunts
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Old 20-02-2016, 11:15   #18
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Wardleworths were originally on the other of the road and ran up from Bank Street and Wardleworths Printers were across the street at the back of the shop, Tasker Street I think.
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Old 20-02-2016, 11:53   #19
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I remember them being on the corner of Little Backburn Road and Bank St.
I also remember them taking the shop at the Blackburn road end of Broadway.
I do not recall them having any other site....but then I am only a young thing(69 next time).
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Old 20-02-2016, 12:39   #20
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Wardleworths were definitely on the left hand side of 'Little' Blackburn road going up from Peel street. I remember my dad having a bump with his motor bike and sidecar outside their shop in the early 50's. I split my nose and was taken into a pub across the road to wait for the ambulance.
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Old 20-02-2016, 13:51   #21
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Was the pub called Freemasons Arms or something like that? When I started work I worked just around the corner. I served my time as a printer with Fred Dalton and he had an old pub next to the Blind Institute the pub had been called The Ferrier's Arms after it closed as a pub a dentist Chris Heyes used it as his surgery but he still left the pub door on.
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Old 21-02-2016, 17:55   #22
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I think you are referring to a shop called "Saul's" . May be wrong .
I don't think you are wrong, I can remember a "Sauls" on Black Abbey Street in the early sixties.
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Worked at Seed and Gabbutts for five wonderful years before I had my kids. The Gabbutts were true gentlemen and always called us as miss so and so. I loved working there, being a book worm.
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Old 01-03-2016, 12:43   #24
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I remember them being on the corner of Little Backburn Road and Bank St.
I also remember them taking the shop at the Blackburn road end of Broadway.
I do not recall them having any other site....but then I am only a young thing(69 next time).
My sister worked at Wardleworths Blackburn road shop straight from school, (1964); then for many years at the shop on Broadway; in fact you may well know her Margaret, Her name before she got married was Linda Hadfield she went to Woodnook school but maybe a couple of years below you, if I remember rightly her nick name was Tish.

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Old 05-03-2016, 18:09   #25
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My sister worked at Wardleworths Blackburn road shop straight from school, (1964); then for many years at the shop on Broadway; in fact you may well know her Margaret, Her name before she got married was Linda Hadfield she went to Woodnook school but maybe a couple of years below you, if I remember rightly her nick name was Tish.

As ever, stay happy, Your's Taddy.
I must have known her as I was a frequent visitor to that lovely bookshop.....however i don't remember her from school.
I left in 1962.....it is usual for you to remember the students ahead of you, but less likely that you remember those who were below you.
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Old 09-08-2016, 17:32   #26
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I remember the Redmans and the smell of freshly ground coffee. Sugar was weighed into brown bags and butter taken from huge slabs and patted into shape before wrapping . Bacon and cooked meats were freshly cut for you to the thickness desired. I also remember money was put into little containers and wizzed over to the cash desk on wires , the container would be returned with your change in. The supermarket was Tesco and I remember saving the green sheild stamps in books. I collected loads but still had some which were never cashed in when they stopped giving them years later.
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