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You gotta be kidding ... the chinese under the viaduct:eek: If it's the one that I'm thinking of, it was the first chinese I ever went into. The first chinese I'd ever eaten. But that was .... let me count:confused: ... over 47 years ago!!!!!!! It can't be the same place, can it?

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What about Little Paris hairdressers on the block on Blackburn Road after Hartmann Street? Been there for knocking on 50 years, with the same shop sign featuring that silhouette of the Eiffel Tower. Also, further along the same block the Azad, where I first tasted a curry around 40 years ago!

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Eric - fraid i can't go back 47 years - well not in terms of going to that Chinese but it's
still the same guy who owned it 30 plus years ago in my early drinking days as we used to go there every Saturday and Sunday night after the last game of pool in the Railway when Gordon and Brenda Shearon had the pub

those were the days - pub crawl round Accy follwed by a Chinese

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That would be the King Wah Eric, name was later changed to the Sun Wah, after the infamous "Cats in the Fridge" prosecution i think it was.:eek::hehetable

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Didn't last orders used to be half ten on Sundays, in the dim and distant past?

If you went in that Chinese, after the pubs had closed, you could carry on drinking a bit longer.

:D

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Yep sunday hours were 12-00 -2-00 n 7- 10-30, thats when i commenced me love of cricket, ye could sup all afternoon at the match.:D:D

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Indeed it was 10.30 for last orders on a Sunday - when did it fall into line with the rest of the week - ws it when 24 hr drinking came in - it's not that long ago is it

Sorry Garinda thats gone over my head!! and I'm not that tall

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S.W. Allens was there in the early 60s, was the first job I worked on when I left school and started as an apprentice joiner, we were refurbishing the shop, that was 1962

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Its not the same chap that first opened it hedman, it was first opened in about 56/57 but in between its been an indian type restaurant, may have been pakistani cuisine, not sure, that was the mid 70s

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It was half ten on Sundays and Monday to Thursday too Rindi, only opened until 11pm on Friday and Saturday

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yeh but Mon-Sat afternoon yeh could sup 11-00 while 3-00 i think.;)

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Ya 11am to 3pm 12noon till 2pm Sundays and opening time on Sunday night was 7pm too. I remember back in the 60s it was 10pm every night in Scotland, shut all day Sundays except clubs and hotels, and there was no such thing as 10 minutes drinking up time, 10pm and they wanted your glass or they'd take it empty or not:D

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Don't know if national chain stores count but the obvious one is Marks & Spencer which has now been in Accrington exactly 50 years and, unlike Boots, has stayed in the same place.

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Another which has been in Accrington for many years is Frank Ogden jewelers on the corner of Peel St and Little Blackburn Road

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Another is Stanley's the Jewelers on Blackburn Road but I'm not sure how long its been there