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Old 05-01-2012, 21:57   #9
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Buying stuff way back!!! How things have changed!!!

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Originally Posted by susie123 View Post
I only remember the butchers with sawdust on the floor but not the grocers.
I remember the name Blowers but can't think where it was... Veevers in Peel Street was definitely up market - and I remember when Jaffa Juice first came out - didn't taste much different from clinic orange juice!
My mum went to a small grocers run by a nice man called Joinson on Whalley Road in the block before the Hope & Anchor pub. There was a long counter with chairs to sit at and mum used to write her order in a notebook for delivery at home.
Sue there is a blog out there just for you.
Was it Roland Joinson?

Blowers was the first shop after the Arcade as you walked up Church St.
I loved the Gold Dish brand of Jaffa juice....My gran used to buy it, they were a bit more affluent than us.........I liked clinic orange juice.
I know when I first tasted the Jaffa juice I told my gran it tasted just like orange juice........I was only little and didn't know what a jaffa was.
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