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Hello there ,
Does anyone remember the tripe shop that was where the village pantry is now on Union Road .

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no we all have altzehimers :D

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No we dont .
Maybe if you went to bed soon instead of posting on compter at 02.30 hrs your memory would improve. :dummy2:

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You tell um bondi:D

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Well his avatar says it all and maybe he has no wife to go to bed with thats why he stays up the play:egged: with his little toy eh?

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My partner is often on the computer at 2.30 AM, or even later, because he works shifts, should I tell him he's not allowed to? :D

We all have different lifestyles Bondi, and we're not all 9 to 5 people. People do what they want, when they want.

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If i knew where the village pantry was, may be i could remember the tripe shop.

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Union Road, opposite the co-op, block further down from the library.

I don't remember a tripe shop there myself. I don't know how many years ago it was.

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Golden Cross
Wolstencrafts paint shop
fish & chip shop
TRIPE SHOP
Nat Smith,s newsagent,s

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I can't remember the shop on your list being a tripe shop. Must be before my time. In the late sixties/early seventies it was the Rentifusion telly shop.

I do remember a wet fish shop across the road, which used to be Clayton's, and before that was Bob *******'s shop, a lovely old chap, whose name escapes me, but I think it was Scottish, and I'm sure someone else will fill in his name.

He was interviewed in Benitta Moore's book 'Gobbiners'.

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I dont remember it myself but I do rem my mum talking about a tripe shop in ossy. I did wonder where it was

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don't remember it meself, a young cashy n tripe did not gell at all. though n older cashy gells.:D

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I missed out the tv shop on my list
I think the lady who ran the tripe shop was called Annie Crawshaw or Cronshaw.
Bob Campbell had the wet fish shop across the road

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Thanks no wonder i cant find their son who i am looking for i was putting Kershaw instead of Crawshaw any ideas where he has got to need to find
him.
Glad to see you remember your roots.

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Campbell!

I knew it was Scottish.

Thanks.

:)

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I've just asked picked my mum's brains, and it was Crawshaw's.

They had a daughter who was called Pat, a 'very bonny girl', who'd be around sixty five now.

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When Bob retired I'm nearly sure A chap called Birch took it over, he'd worked with Bob and just carried on when Bob packed in, can't remember his first name but his brother was a mate of mine Kevin, he was a chippy lived on Stanely Street or Duke Street

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Gary please will you pick your mums brains again and ask her if she knows the whereabouts of the son called Alan he is the one i need to get in touch with i will ask your mum if i see her on the road as i often do if she has come to the shop.
Thanks a lot.
Marian.

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you wont know village pantry south ausie.it shot up when you went to australia,,,

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Sorry I missed this.

Yes I'll ask her, though initially she only remembered the daughter, Pat.

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Some time ago i asked the question WHAT HAS CHANGED IN OSSY
After reading various posts it really does seem that nothing has changed
to people living in Ossy.
For people living overseas even small changes are very noticeable
I did not know the CO OP has been moved down Union Road opposite to where the Tripe shop was
Even small changes can affect your memory of how things were

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Personally I think it was a shame that they demolished the main Co-op, apparently we also had at least three more smaller Co-ops too.

It was a grand old buliding, and Ossy Co-op was at one time famous for paying the highest 'divvy' in the country.

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There was one down near the Palladium on the corner of Collier Street Rindi and the if I remember rightly the one where your Dad had the night club had a Tailors and Hardware as well as food

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Dont remember that one John please enlighten me is it in in the gobbiners book i buy all the books but not seen that one .
Look forward to knowing that information.

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i remember it bondi, from me years at tech, 59/63 was just up a bit on opposite side, seem to remember pale blue boarding above the windows.

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Wellcashy youve got me there do you mean on the block where the new chemist is now .
Will have to ask my mother about that she may remember as she is 94 and all i remember was going up the steps at the one on Union Road for the Divi .

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Is it where the fancy dress shop is/was?

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Thats where i mean but now the chemist has took all that block over

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don't know that shop bernie,unless ya mean the hire shop? if so i'm sure it was a bit further up. but wouldn't put me house on,its a long time ago,n i wasn't much of a shopper in them days, yeh bondi yer mam should hopefully remember it,bless her.:)

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Its was a bit lower down than that Bernie, the left hand corner of Collier Street, the fancy dress costume shop was Louy Parks Furnishing who moved there from what was the old CO-OP shop that was on the opposite side of the road just lower down than the clinic. there were loads of grocers shops in those days there was Duckworths where the launderette is just across from the Civic Theatre, then higher up (now Owen and Ewing's Insurance, and once the Steak Bar) was Jimmy Gorrels, and of course Rileys at the top end of Ossy, and a little one on the opposite side of the road next to the paper shop, the woman who had it was Madg Wilson, she was my mate Lefty's Aunt

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Been looking for mine Marian, and as usual can't find it when I want it:rolleyes:

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Yep was the hire shop I was meaning:)

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There was one on Catlow Hall St, at the bottom of Fielding Lane, and one up Stanhill. I can't remember where the other one was, maybe the West End.

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The one at the bottom of Fielding lane was never a coop, I lived nearby on Hornby St (as did your dad and family) - it was a privately owned grocery

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Well I'm wrong. Wasn't there a few shops? I can remember two being there, besides the one actually on Fielding Lane.

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it was the last owners i think they were, are people i know,who now live oer walton le dale way.:)

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There was that grocer....and a fruit veg and fish(next to the phone box - opp corner)
an ironmonger(where chippy is now)
a clogger/shoe repairs(in a hut on the side street)
I dont remember a baker, but the smell of fresh bread was about because of the Continental Bakery (where garage is now)

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I've had to phone my Ma up for confirmation that there was a Co-op on Catlow Hall Street, and she said there definitely was. She used to push me in there in my pram, and once took back some spuds back because they were bad, and was given a refund by the bald headed manager.

She also remembers getting Co-op stamps in there. It was on the opposite corner to where the chippy is, attached to what's now the garage, and they now make conveyer belts in there.

Incidentally what's now the garage used to be Continental Bakers, and before that it was the Co-op bakery.

Other small Co-ops in Ossy were over the West End, up New Lane, over on Harvey Street, and the one up Stanhill, which is now the first house up after the James Hagreaves memorial gardens.

I also had to listen about what became my Dad's old disco being the old Co-op shoe shop, across the road being the Co-op hardware shop, managed by Tony Perkin's mum. As well as the grocers, tailors, furniture store and butchers, and the function room, which were all part of the main Co-op building.

I deserve a 'divvy' for having to listen to all that.:D

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Oh finally, there was another Co-op in Ossy, in what's now the Furniture Clinic.

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That coop must have arrived after I left in 1961
My memories are from 1942 - 61 (before your arrival :D)
But I do remember it as a bakery before it went Continental - I recall watching the big dough mixing/kneading bowls in use - the workers let a few kids in to watch.

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That did cross my mind.

We lived in my grandparent's old house from '63-'67 before moving up Stanhill.

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worry not rindy,you are a divvy.:D:D

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Good.

When's 'divvy day', so I can cash myself in?

:D

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I've mentioned earlier that at one time Ossy Co-op paid out the biggest dividend in the whole country.

My grandparents used to tell me tales that 'divvy day' was like the Wild West, with people staying off work, and running up the road to spend their share of the Co-op's profits in one of the town's many pubs...if they hadn't signed the pledge.:D

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I remember queuing around the block(Union Rd) with my mum, waiting for the payout.

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Well Gary i am going to have to aviod your mum when i see her on the road for putting her through all this info .
But one thing it is gratefully received we all apreciate the info she is giving us its good to have our memories jogged up at our age you tend to forget the good old days when we were young .

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Forgot to say i will buy you a drink when i see you out and about for all your info or 2 custards at your place and a cup of tea how about that.

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I did ask her about the boy from the tripe shop, Alan Crawshaw, she said he was a 'bonny lad', but didn't know him well because he was older than her. Sorry.

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I was in the same class as Alan Crawshaw at Rhyddings.

He was'nt a 'bonny lad' at all he was as ungy as sin? :D:D. If its the same lad he will be 69/70 years young.

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Isn,t the tripe shop now the fitness equipment rental shop?

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Yes you are right it is the fitness shop well not actually a fitness shop Mark hires the machines out i think for you to use ay home.

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You are right age wise but not ugly as sin you are going worse i will send you photo of him i married him in a pantomine at sunday school when i was abot 10 it was called Tom Thumbs Wedding anyone remember that.:D

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Everyone had a divvy number ours was 1339

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Think there still is one over West End, mate of mine had it, used to deliver too in a fruit and veg van, dropped stuff of for me sometimes. I'm talking about ordinary Grocers shop here not CO-OP

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Was a big thing, divvy day when I was a lad, can remember going with my grandma up t the top co-op as we called to collect it, but remember the number though. Having said that its just reminded be about the Co-Op chemists accross from the Town Hall, Harry Clark was the chemist,

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ye i forgot about him now lets go up from the top of simpson street starting with Percy Denners pet shop that will test your age.
Or we could go starting from Irish League starting with Bobby Lambs fruit& vedge come on now lets hear all you old ossy folk.

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the co-op had one up stanhill, west end, new lane,fielding lane all grocery shoe shop,ladies wear, tailors, hardware, grocers, dance /meeting rooms, butchers all on union road top end, furniture grocers pharmacy all bottom end and

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I'm afraid being born in 1965 means I can't go way back.

I do know that what's now my brother's shop, and before that my dad's, and granddad's, who bought it in 1945, used to be Sam Boot's bakery, and before he aquired just before the Great War it had been a chip shop.

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Don,t forget about Jimmy Stevies pie shop at the top of Cross St.

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Good grief can remember both those Marian, How about Birches cycle shop on Tinker brow, Nellie Barns fruit and veg opposite St Paul's School, and Miss Mackinsons toffee shop on the same block together with Mrs Riley's Herbalist, Chan's Chip the first Chinese I can ever remember, was next door to John Scholes newsagents both between the Horse Shoe and the Prince of Wales pubs. Bureau Wine Shop, Baldwins Fruit and Veg and Adams toffee shop all on the same block between the Town Hall and Emric Eccles Chemists

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In the late 40s my dad's cousin's wife Gladys Rothwell ran a fruit and veg shop opposite the library. It was either next door to, or next but one to, where that pizza place is on the corner

Ps anyone know what happened to my cousin (once removed) Bobby (her son)

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I'm sure that the man who ran the pet shop on Tinker Brew, near where the cab office is now, was called Bobby Rothwell. This would be about 10/15 years ago, and he'd be around your age.

I know they had children, so they might be able to confirm this.

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I think it's important that our history is recorded, but it becomes harder as generations sadly disappear. As far as I know one lady, who is still as bright as a button, she certainly was the last time I saw her, is Mary Groves, mother of Jack(John), and was a friend of my grandparents, and I think your parents. She has a great memory concerning Ossy as it was.

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I remember Mary well - Jack Groves was my childhood sweetheart.
He could yodel and we would sit under their privet hedge holding hands whilst he sang 'Roll along Covered Wagon Roll Along'
He was always Roy Rogers and my 1/2 cousin Christine and I used to argue about who was Dale Evans.
I am amazed that Mary is still alive - my mother would have been 100 last week

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Yes she is, and still living in the same house.

The last time I saw her she was as sharp as a pin, and looked 20 years younger than she is.

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Does she stll live in the semi's behind St Pauls Church, on Hornby Street Rindi

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When Gary said 'same house' I presumed that he meant the terraced opposite where his gran and grandad lived.

The semi at the other end of the street is where John Groves senior (the dentist, and Jack's grandad) tragically died by his own hand

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There was a tripe shop Baldwin's,the wine shop, one half of it sold drink and the other side sold tripe.

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Just been talking to me dad ( 89 ) and he mentioned Alan Lamb being in the shop. They were boy scouts in their younger days but seems to think his life came to a fateful end..
would anyone know?

also dad recalls coming home for lunch from Lang Bridges on his pushbike and on the way called in to see Jack Groves the dentist on the corner of Havelock St and Union Rd to pull a tooth out.. Jack asked dad if he would like the gas to which dad replied noo just pull the ****** out.. which Jack did and dad then went back to work.

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Your Dad was posh, to be able to afford to have teeth by the time he was working.:D

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with granddad being a master poacher they never went hungry ;)

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Bobby Lamb,s shop
Mr,s Barnes [Mable ?] shop [Haberdashers]
Bill Swift barbers
Jewellers shop ?
Mr,s Rothwells fruit & veg
Midland Bank

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Harry lived in Ash street,just down from my parents.
When he wasn,t in the NEW INN

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Yea he used to hold court in the snug at the New Inns with Dr Farquar, the were always in anytime I call for a drink, like book ends:D

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Yes John wish Dr Farquar was still with us i had him all my life till he sadly passed away very sad moment that for ossy folk dont you think.

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My middle name is Douglas which is after Dr F. Marian, I had Pneumonia when I was only 8 months old, and he was there four or five times a day until I pulled through, I've a lot to thank that chap for

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He was brilliant if i ever meet you i will tell you a tale about him but i cant put it on here well i can tell you a few tales not maliciouse just how clever a doctor he was with me which will amaze you but some will give you a laugh he was a real star.

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My great grandparents Walter and Agnes Jones lived on Ash Street for about forty years.

My mum, grandma and aunt lived with them as well, from about 1949-58.

She was Yvonne Owen then.

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Marian......you are busting a gut to tell us.....go for it? :D

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have enjoyed reading all posts on this one. no mention yet of wilkingson's butcher's corner of shed street or dr. pittard opp corner. agnes & jimmy's pie shop just lower down. i was born opp bay horse 233 union road july 1944.

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me owd mate n gaffer lived on that row until he sadly died nortype. B.S.

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If your mum was Yvonne Owen , you must be related to the Cowell family who lived in Kay street and then White Ash Lane
Lillian,Harrold,Harry John Ann & Sandra
I remember Mr,s Jones,as not having any teeth ,but she was quite capable of eating a Granny Smiths,no trouble
Was your aunt Rosalind Stot?

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Yes my mum was Yvonne owen, sister of Rosalind, and daughter of Lillian, one of the seven Jones girls. My grandma was actually christened Lily, but thought it wasn't glamorous enough, hence Lillian.:p

My grandma's sister Mabel married Harry Cowell, who had the children you listed.

As well as eating Granny Smiths apples, my great grandma Jones could also crack nuts with her gums!:D

It's a small world. PM me your real name, as I'm sure my mum will remember you. I've heard so much about those times, because she has a very good memory, I almost feel as if I was in the Ash Street Gang myself.:p

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Garinda, your right about the small world bit. I know your mum well and if your grans sister lived at 42 Whiteash Lane I bought the house off them back around 1970. My wife,s grandparents lived on Ash St also way back when.

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I just about remember them living on Whiteash Lane, in the house you bought. They then moved to a farm at Hapton, which is now a restaurant, and whose name escapes me.

As you'll probably remember my aunt Ros lived at number 18. She sadly died four years ago this September.

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Just remembered, Bentley Wood Farm.:rolleyes:

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Accy Web's Sparkologist lived on Whiteash Lane in the seventies, not too far from you.

Like you say, small world.:p

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Yes I remember your aunt Ros, very sad. We all went up the Emp in the 60s. Tell your mum I,ll be in for some custards, probably around September!!

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Lol, I'll tell her.

Pm me your real name, then I can tell her, and they'll know what name to write on the bag.:p

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No cant put it on here i will get banned not nice to talk about the dead for all the world to see and you know what you call me .
Well Ditto.:D

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Cashy wilkinsons are still with us but on Garden Street the sons of course and they have a stall in Blackburn Market i go there for my cooked meats best cooked meats in Lancashire .:theband:

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Must know you i was born at 299 Union road 1938 and still lived there for 15 years or more till we moved up New Lane where i still am .

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John been for a look in the wine bar today not very big looks as though it will be very comfy though think it may be opening next week.

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If there is outdoor seating you may see me there.
I think I seriously slipped up when I named a topic for the current photo comp.
I should have said 'Public Seating in Hyndburn' so that I could have more choice and know what they look like before I go.

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wasn't refering to wilkinsons bondi, refering to the row of houses were nortype lived.:)

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Raymond sent you PM

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Raymond i remember Dr Pittard and Agneses pie shop but cant for the life in me remember the Butchers i will have to ask mother but i am sure it was wilkinsons but the lads have taken it over and moved into Garden Srett just doing cooked meats i will ask your Jeff he only lives round the corner from me i will get back to you on that one but will find out of someone.

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Remember getting my steak pud , mash and peas there .. yummmmm best in town.

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Jim's Eight a Loose weren't bad either Cherokee:D

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bondi was wilkinsons eldest son david used to let me drive the van. happy days.