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old accy baths as i remember it from a child were lads down one side girls down other and your clothes stayed in the cubicle... but i only rem my schooldays going there so it may have been different for open swimming....

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can you remember who lived on that row iantow? it was very strange to cashy as a nipper.lol

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ah uncle rindy what a cute pic...i notice the smile hasnt changed :D

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I remember the old accy baths.. that was my bath.. went every July without fail!
and the chippy over the road.

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Most of them cashy, the whole area was a small community on it's own St James St ,Paradise St, Eagle st and the back streets as most of them were back to back houses with communal back yards an toilets etc. The characters yes, Tommy two guns said he used to be in All Capones gang when he went to live in America, Mr and Mrs Flaherty in Paradise St a mate of mine married their daughter, also Mrs Best who's nickname was 'Merry Bess' among others, I was brought up on Blackburn Rd Corner house with Grimshaw St, but I knew this area very well as my Grandma was the landlady of the Globe Inn, I bought a house on Eagle St in 1964, I could go on all night naming names but not the done thing methinks?

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my grandad used to live in one of the old firemens cottages up manchester rd an he had a communal back yard with the loos etc ... i was only a young un and used to find it funny....

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now then theres a story about tommy 2 guns somewhere i put in a thread in nostalgia section,an its perfectly true. also i knew merry bess by one of her other names. lol me aunt alice who ican barely remember lived on parsdise st.

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Mine was green Willow...and it did make a very satisfying sound when you put money in it.

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Rindy, you just left your clothes in the cubicle and hoped someone would steal them.........and leave you something better. I never had any money other than a few coppers with which to buy a bag of bits or a few chips.....Maybe folk were more honest then.
Everyone I knew used to put their coppers in their sock and stuff it into the toe of their shoe. So the crims didn't have to be a genius to rob us of our few coppers.

As for the Redman's query......I remember John Swanney. My mum used to love that potted salmon. I'm sure that john swanney later had a shop in Church St......that was after Redmans closed down.

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The sunken gardens were filled in in 1960 when construction was started on the Broadway shops. They were a real oasis of calm and tranquilty amid the hustle and bustle of the town centre. Used to sit there with my gran, watching the world go by. It was a shame when they disappeared, but at the time it was thought to be a major step forward for the town's shopping facilities, especially the introduction of an M&S store which was the first new one in the country since the war. I think the shops opened around October, 1961, as I remember going to have a shufty in the new Woolies for the first time on my way up to a match at Peel Park, just a few months before the old Stanley folded. The fountains on Broadway looked great when they were in action but, alas, that wasn't for long, thanks to the efforts of practical jokers who regularly tipped bottles of washing up liquid into them to create a bubble bath along Broadway!

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Cheers Wynonie I'll let her know she was a full decade out lol! :D

My mum also remembers them with fondness, the pictures I've seen of them they were lovely :)

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Glad to be of service, Tinks, and ta for the karma.

Now I've a question to ask the senior members out there. When I was about 11 or 12 in 1962/3, I have a distinct memory of walking round the back of the Broadway car park, somewhere near the bottom of Castle Street and seeing an old pub being demolished. Can anyone shed any light on the subject?

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The Australian, that was the pub your after 'S'

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the only pub at the bottom of castle street was around the corner to the left on the pleck, it was a thwaites house The Australian where cashy had his first pint in 62, the then landlady is still batting and have seen her in the back room of the stag at occasional accyweb meets.so it was later in 60s wyn when it was demolished cos it stood empty a few years, never remember any other pub down there apart from the Black Bull- over the river stink bridge next to a paper shop and ken cleggs.

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Cheers, Mr C and Ian, that's the pub. Must be getting my years mixed up on its demolition date.