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Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 30-06-2009, 09:20
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Posted By jg
Re: wellington street

Hi Taggy,
Looks like I am a bit before your time.
The Ritz was a ballroom where we had some great times.And when I was even younger we would go and sit on the 'planks' at the front in the Kings...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 30-06-2009, 08:29
Replies: 50
Views: 4,068
Posted By jg
Re: wellington street

hello Ossykid,
You would remember the Ritz down Church Street then?And further down was the dace-
-hall where Syd Ashmead and his !broadcasting band! used to play.
jg
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 29-06-2009, 12:59
Replies: 50
Views: 4,068
Posted By jg
Re: wellington street

Thanks Taggy,
That was it - Napier street - I remember now.Mind,I'm going back to the 'forties'.
jg
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 29-06-2009, 08:16
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Views: 4,068
Posted By jg
Re: wellington street

Thanks Annlez,
It could very well have been.I only remember the 'bits' he gave us were tasty because they were cooked in beef dripping.
jg
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 29-06-2009, 08:13
Replies: 50
Views: 4,068
Posted By jg
Re: wellington street

Thanks Retlaw.
Oh! dear,what a swelling of emotion inside.Where those two people are crossing,that was the corner where we lived.
At the end of the war,after we'd all made it through,my mother...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 28-06-2009, 16:18
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Posted By jg
Re: wellington street

There was a fish and chip shop on a slight bend in Cotton street,where the owner would sometimes give us kids 'bits'.
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 28-06-2009, 14:33
Replies: 50
Views: 4,068
Posted By jg
Re: wellington street

I lived next to the last house (92) on wellington street,which was just across from nuttall
street 92 was on the left.Round the corner on the left,Spring Gardens,I think it's called now was an...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 28-06-2009, 10:03
Replies: 50
Views: 4,068
Posted By jg
Re: wellington street

I do not understand the message.
What large house?
jg
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 28-06-2009, 09:22
Replies: 50
Views: 4,068
Posted By jg
Re: wellington street

Hello,
I used to live at 92 Wellington street as a little boy.They were quite old houses,so,I think they may have been demolished now.
jg
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