[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by landhusweg

I can remember Bob Wilkinsons shop on Nuttall Street. He was the "Ironmonger" and had a huge product range in his shop.
To get to the original question of "Radios" I remember being at my Grandfathers at number 1 Belfield road very often, and having to listen (without comments) to the "Archers"! This programme was the love of both my Grandfather and my Aunty Edna.

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Seems like theres a few owd Woodnookers like this thread, no matter where they live now, aye it were Wilkys lamp oyle shop.
I used to do all my Granddads shopping on Nuttall St durying the last war, fully armed wi ration books Co-op cheques and big basket, in fact you could do all your weekly shopping and never need to leave Nuttall St, I particularly remember one shop, about where the last post office was, I got granddads tobbaco there, gave him a penny and a 1/2 penny, he would put them on the scales, & cut pieces of black twist off a big coil until the balanced, then call in at my other grandma's on Edmund St, before I took Grandad Fenwick his shopping on Higher Antley St, he was married, 2nd wife, but us kids were not allowed to call her grandma, she had to be reffered to as aunty, none of us liked her, my two sisters refused to visit, Any way them days are long gone, but them were the days, you could even get your table legs French polished on Nuttall St. I could say that Nuttall St was in my life every day until my twenties, used it every day going to Woodnook Council School, and then when I started work at 14, going to Lang Bridges.