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Exactly that Margaret :) That made me chuckle.

I don't remember the place but I do remember the green grocers at the top of Broadway (I can't remember it's name though) that always appeared to me as a little one, was on a very steep slope. My mum asked me to stand out side and watch little slinky in the pram while she went for her shopping but the buggy was so overloaded with bags over the handles that the buggy tipped up and I couldn't pick it up. I remember her wailing in the pram and me trying to comfort her, telling her mum will be here soon. :)

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Yes Willow.....Veevers was another one of the old style grocers.
I remember going there to buy Gold Dish brand Jaffa juice when my dad was poorly. It was expensive, but it was the only thing he wanted that would stay down.

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when i where a lass i remember when glynweb used to be asda :D

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Yes I remember that too I used to go with my Nan and Sharon. That had a steep slope as well didn't it?

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Tinks, that would be Catlows. And they used to be housed in a green wooden shed in Peel Street.....just about where the bakers shop is now.
Blowers, the grocers goes back to the early fifties, so if you weren't around then you won't remember it. Bridges was next door to Moffats haberdashery and ladies wear store.....and Baileys, well that was where Baileys night club is now. That was the shop you went toif you were going somewhere posh and needed a nice 'costume' for that is what they called a ladies suit way back then.

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yeah one you could slide down on the trolley :D

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You are dead right Willow, the ladies was through the waiting room

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ah i often wondered where the name for that pub came from...well they couldnt really call it toy n model could they ;)

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I remember wardleworths for the few book tokens i got:rolleyes:

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Was that where the pound shop is now ?

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Catlows! That's it :D

Wasn't there a big fire that gutted Baileys?

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Yes,it was Willow. I went to school with a girl called Vivien Smith and her mother used to sit in the lofty position where those zooming cash things used to go......we used to go in after school to wave to her.
I used to really envy her that job.