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Originally Posted by Retlaw
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.
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Exactly right Retlaw.
The shop you mentioned getting the "Black Twist", we would go there for some "Sarsaparilla" think the spelling is correct?
Then there was "Cowgills Butcher" and further down the road another butchers shop, where I delivered meat for him.
Somebody just mentioned the Coop and remembering the coop number, this brought back my memories of shopping there on my own and sometimes when I was very young with my Mother and believe it or not her number was 109823, which I have just remembered.
Cheers