Re: Who makes the best pies??
 

Would that be the "Pickup Butt"? Looks like the same location. I see the Post Office is still in the same place. But I guess they don't sell pies there, eh?;)

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That's it Eric, Is that what it's called now. The Co-op's across the road. They sell pies. There's a chippy somewhere down there as well. Spoilt for choice.

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I remember a chippy just around the corner, in the square. They had great pies too ... esp. the cheese and onion which was a Friday special for the dogans:D

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Cissy Greens on Deardengate Haslingden....
Can be found in some shops in Accy. Little sandwich shop on corner of Eastgate and Stanley Street has them in. :D

BBC - Lancashire - Food and Drink: The butcher, baker and meat pie maker, Cissy Green's Bakery, Haslingden

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There used to be a good bakers who did great pies on the corner of Pickup St Accrington Eric near where Rist Wires used to be, can't remember the name

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The bakery on Pickup Street in Clayton was run by sisters called Hope. I'd be surprised if their still alive and I think they were spinsters so probably wouldn't have family to pass the business on to. The chip shop on Barnes Square was run by the Orr's when I was around. Their son Stephen was in my class at All Saints.

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She was called Tilda and made oval shaped full of gelatine delicious meat pies, good hot or cold.

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That's gotta be the one ... don't remember the names though.

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Not sure it's called that now? It's a fancy deli type sandwich shop. Last proper baker Ted (Hillman I think) retired out of there a few years ago.
Post Office undergoing a major refurb' not before time. Scaffolding up and upstairs being ripped out last week when I passed. :D

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My cheese and onion pie is popular, I got the recipe about 30 years ago from the cook when I worked in a home for elderly people - but at the risk of being controversial I think Birds Eye chicken pies taste really good even though they might be full of rubbish! And I do like Cissie Greens pies too.

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Proper bakers going, proper butchers too, no doubt, proper fishmongers, proper chippies, proper tailors ... I don't like it.:mad: It's becoming a Walmart world .... Maybe I'm just an out of date old fart who wore clogs. But those clogs were made to measure for me, by a man skilled in his craft. And my shoes were re-soled and heeled by a proper cobbler.

When I first arrived in Canada, I could pull into a full-service gast station. A guy would come out, fill my tank (at 45 cents a gallon), check my oil and show me the stick, clean my windshield, and ask if my tire pressure needed checking. Now I do all this myself for $1.20 a litre:rolleyes: And when my tech toys screw up ... tech support:mad: ... a call centre in India:eek: (Fortunately I speak French; so, I choose the French language option and get a call centre in Canada:D) The world is starting to suck big time. I'm glad I'm on my way out. Just wish I could get a couple of real pies to take with me.

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And I forgot proper pubs ... how did that one slip by me:)

Re: Who makes the best pies??
 

Hollands there the best.

Re: Who makes the best pies??
 

Probably because there are none left Eric:D

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Groovster likes Greenalgh's pies but they are quite expensive