Doorway one

[Acrylic-bob]

This door could be connected with a medieval form of punishment. But then again, perhaps not.

[accyplus]

Doorway one I think is on Burnley Road next to Accy garages,and is still occupied
in fact they have there for over sixty years,it used to be shop that sold soft drinks
and ices,there lollys were half pence each old money,{what a door!!!!).

[Acrylic-bob]

A bit more and you've got it. How about a name?

[accyplus]

The only name that springs to mind is Mayors.

[Acrylic-bob]

Why?

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[accyplus]

That is what they are called.I cant record them ever being mayor and mayoress but they do go back along way,as does that bloody door,as it ever seen a coat of paint?.

[Acrylic-bob]

I take it that the current occupiers are called Mayor. I didn't know that. I went in there once to buy some cigarettes. It was a bit like stepping back into the last century, by which I mean the 19th century. The old chap served me and oddly he would not hand over the cigarettes until I had paid for them. I suppose he had been caught out with kids doing a runner one time too many. Still it was strange, I was 35 at the time.
But this digression, pleasant though it is, isn't getting us any nearer to the name I am looking for. I think you need to look past the Mayors'.

[yerself]

The people who owned the shop were Mr. & Mrs Boyd. Mr Boyd was as bald as the proverbial coot and permanently wore a woolly hat which was removed every Sunday to attend mass at St. Joseph's. He was affectionately known to the locals as Bowdy.

[Acrylic-bob]

Brilliant, Yerself, but it's not the name I am looking for. I'm thinking more along the lines of the hard stuff...?

[Doug]

The Rack, Gibblet?

[yerself]

Next door to Bowdy's, what is now Hugh Davies Car Sales, was Stock's pop factory, home of the famous Irn Bru. Is that what you want Acrylic-bob?

[Atarah]

Next door to Bowdy's, what is now Hugh Davies Car Sales, was Stock's pop factory, home of the famous Irn Bru. Or was it Stockleys?

[yerself]

Definitely Stocks next door to Bowdy's. People I know (not that I was one of them, you understand) used to pinch bottles of pop off the wagons and tear off accross the road into the ruins of the old Stanley ground. If you were brave enough and had time you could climb on to the wagon and reach the bottles of Bulmer's Woodpecker cider which were always in the middle surrounded by the bottles of sarsaparilla, irn bru and other soft drinks. (So I'm told)
Stockley's the toffee manufacturers, now in the Ossy Mills complex, were in Church, I believe.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by yerself

Definitely Stocks next door to Bowdy's. People I know (not that I was one of them, you understand) used to pinch bottles of pop off the wagons and tear off accross the road into the ruins of the old Stanley ground. If you were brave enough and had time you could climb on to the wagon and reach the bottles of Bulmer's Woodpecker cider which were always in the middle surrounded by the bottles of sarsaparilla, irn bru and other soft drinks. (So I'm told)
Stockley's the toffee manufacturers, now in the Ossy Mills complex, were in Church, I believe.

I was.........hehehehehehe.

We would hide over the wall between sheeps coates Farm and the houses on Willows Lane and wait for the little bedford flatback. Then we would go over the top and grab what we could.

[JohnW]

I'm totally shocked Doug!!!