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Retlaw 21-05-2012 13:21
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Originally Posted by hassy rvr (Post 993209)
Thanks Bob could well have been a grocers I only remember going in for sweets, we got groceries from Eddlestons on Plantation st till Sauls opened down Black Abbey.
Did you not go in Hilda's, opposite Mother Gumms, in Plantation St.

Owd Saul took over that shop in Black Abbey St, from his Uncle Bob Holt.
Saul was the first in Accrington, to stack them high, and sell cheaper than others, he used to travel every day from Blackpool.
Retlaw.

hassy rvr 22-05-2012 14:47
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Went in Hilda,s nearly every day the old scales were just inside for weighing spuds if my memory serves me right she died of tetinus.All our health products came from Mother Gumms....Kaolin to make poultices camphor blocks which my mum would pin in my liberty bodice.Eeh the good old days they don,t know what their missing these days!!!!lol

jaysay 22-05-2012 17:47
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Originally Posted by hassy rvr (Post 993369)
Went in Hilda,s nearly every day the old scales were just inside for weighing spuds if my memory serves me right she died of tetinus.All our health products came from Mother Gumms....Kaolin to make poultices camphor blocks which my mum would pin in my liberty bodice.Eeh the good old days they don,t know what their missing these days!!!!lol
Well they won't be missing liberty bodices or camphor blocks hassy rvr:D

hassy rvr 22-05-2012 19:51
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Lol they have,nt lived!!

jaysay 23-05-2012 09:11
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Originally Posted by hassy rvr (Post 993422)
Lol they have,nt lived!!
Not to mention Nitty Nora:D

maxthecollie 23-05-2012 12:33
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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 993483)
Not to mention Nitty Nora:D
The bug explorer

hassy rvr 23-05-2012 15:34
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Ha ha if they still had a nitty Nora today it probably would,nt be as big a problem in schools as it is,cut backs!!

jaysay 23-05-2012 17:47
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Originally Posted by hassy rvr (Post 993555)
Ha ha if they still had a nitty Nora today it probably would,nt be as big a problem in schools as it is,cut backs!!
There hasn't been a nitty nora in schools since the 60s


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