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egg&chips · 13-12-2007, 16:06

I lived on Lonsdale St in the 60's, (in the Ladies wear shop at one point) and can remeber a few of the shops. There was a sweet shop opposite the Pickup's that used to sell draught sasparilla-MAGIC. Then at the bottom of Spring St there was the Veevo ( I think) good for Mambos and spud guns. Coming closer to home at the bottom of Sharples St was Bridges confectioners with excellent pies and pasties plus Savoys to die for. At the bottom of Elizabeth St was Jack Walmsley's butchers ( a good friend of my dad) where I picked up our meat order on Saturday mornings. I recall having to get my more muscular sister to drag our beagle away from his display of pigs' heads in his window one day. A greengrocers was further round towards the bottom of Exchange st and then a house that looked like it used to be a shop but with some kind of opaque green covering on the inside of the window that had about a million dead wasps and bees trappedin there . Scary!!

13-12-2007, 16:06	#5
egg&chips Full Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Leeds Posts: 375 Liked: 20 times Rep Power: 4669	Re: Spring Hill long ago I lived on Lonsdale St in the 60's, (in the Ladies wear shop at one point) and can remeber a few of the shops. There was a sweet shop opposite the Pickup's that used to sell draught sasparilla-MAGIC. Then at the bottom of Spring St there was the Veevo ( I think) good for Mambos and spud guns. Coming closer to home at the bottom of Sharples St was Bridges confectioners with excellent pies and pasties plus Savoys to die for. At the bottom of Elizabeth St was Jack Walmsley's butchers ( a good friend of my dad) where I picked up our meat order on Saturday mornings. I recall having to get my more muscular sister to drag our beagle away from his display of pigs' heads in his window one day. A greengrocers was further round towards the bottom of Exchange st and then a house that looked like it used to be a shop but with some kind of opaque green covering on the inside of the window that had about a million dead wasps and bees trappedin there . Scary!!