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Another Accy shop set to close down:o:o:eek::eek:;
Furniture store to close Accrington shop (From Lancashire Telegraph) |
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amazed it lasted so long, "Cavendishs" before em closed n that i thought was a much better shop.
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Went in must be five or six years ago with Ianto looking for a new bed and bedroom furniture. To be perfectly honest not much choice and delivery dates not when we wanted. Ended up buying from Argos which says a lot for "quality local service" IMHO :sad:
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which furniture shop is it??? sorry, or am I being a bit dim?
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They employ a lad, to walk up and down wearing a sandwich board, who always looks like he's about to cry, and who you can't help feeling sorry for. |
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Thats the Furnimax g.
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Davis's bed store definitely employed one. We used to see him when we were sat in Over Coffee. Looking like he'd rather be doing anything else, other than walk up and down wearing that sandwich board. :D |
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This is what is happening all over.
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To be fair, im sure i could think of better ways to spend my days that wearing a sandwich board though lol x |
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So..if it will move to Blackburn, it will possibly be called;
DAVIES OF BLACKBURN |
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figures, we all know its gonna happen at some point
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I'm quite sure that on tuesday - about 10am - I saw big, whitewashed writing saying "Closing Down", being removed from the windows of this shop. How odd?
Maybe Wetherspoons jumped the gun early in taking the Commercial off Thwaites's hands; if they'd have waited a bit longer, they could have had the premises next door to the Calder. Now that would have been fun. |
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Got to say it's a lovely building
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agree Wadey lovely building...........would make a fabulous Karen Milen shop, but don't really see that working in accrington!!! Hey ho make way for another pound store!
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Out of curiosity, how many shops can people think of that have been going for 20 years .
We know food shops like butchers, bakers tend to have a long family history but how many non-food shops have lasted that long ? I guess Garth Dawsons will be one of them, after that I'm stuck :) |
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:D Specs, Peel St. pharmacy? |
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Boots, though it has move locations. Trevor Adams on Warner St, Gene Sutcliffe, Clock shoppe, Humberstones, the shoe place on Little Blackburn Rd. Art shop on Bank St. Peters Jewellers. Archway store near the Railway Pub. Plus 2 hair salon.
on a mish now!!! |
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Anne Whittakers, the Bridal shop, different owners over the years and moved a few times, but still there.
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The little clock shop in Warner Street has been there some years
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Saw (Davies of Accrington) van parked in Blackburn Town Centre yesterday, and at around 8-9PM saw it parked on a house drive near Preston New Road.
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my hairdressers ... must be coming up to 20 years hes been there ... and before that he was on avenue parade ...
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Must be going on nearly twenty years Originals (menswear) have been going.
Although it's changed hands, isn't the camera shop still called Garth Dawson's? |
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S W Allens - Opticians on Dutton Street
Abduls Kebab House Chinese on Blackburn Road under the viaduct Picture Shop at top of Little Blackburn Road |
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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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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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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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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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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
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the leather shop on warner street has been there years
when I started in pub game in late 80's sunday afternnon was a right PITA as people could drink with meals so you would end up with all the pee heads coming in trying to get a drink by buying the smallest cheapest thing on the menu and nursing it from 2pm till 7 which blocked the tables so you couldn't serve others. shutting was 10:30 on Sunday but 11pm every other day. The 10:30 finish was there right up till 24 hour opening. |
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Was also wondering how long The Copper Kettle Tea Rooms has been on Warner street too
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Was debating with my mate just how long the Mitald Indian has been on Warner Street, I can remember going in about 25 years ago
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It must have seemed quite sophisticated for you, (& possibly confusing), eating a meal from a plate using those new fangled tools known as cutlery, instead of eating chips from a newspaper with your fingers.:D |
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Don't the Indians themselves usually eat that muck they call curry with their fingers and a bland bread ?? |
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Found Davies of Accrington's website;
Blackburn Bed Centre |
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Why, after taking the time to announce to us as you did in the 1st post of this thread, that the place is closing down, would you think that a link to it's web site is of any use to anyone? :confused: |
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Davies of Accrington have now moved to 84 Darwen St, Blackburn and is called The Bed Centre
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I wonder -is that little shop still there which used to sell everything for making home-brewed beer and wines? It was off Warner Street near Ross Lee Construction i think -used to be quite the thing to brew your own...
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Davies of Accrington van was driven on Darwen St Blackburn today, then turned left to Jubilee St, saw it today.
BTW, the driver was Gary Davies (owner of former store Davies of Accrington). |
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What was he wearing ?
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Gary Davies was in my class at school
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almost as if two people are using one username which is a no, no. :hidewall: |
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not me ! |
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its nice to be missed in accy !!! lol :cool: |
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Believe you. if you say he wasn't in your empoly. We watched him walk up and down that block on Blackburn Road, on more than one occasion. Though it didn't say where the sale was. Perhaps that's why he always looked on the verge of tears...he didn't know. Must have been some nutter, who did it off his own back. (Excuse the pun.) :D Hope business is good in Blackburn. Be good if one day you did come back to Accy. :) |
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