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BERNADETTE

03-08-2009 23:05

Re: Working Mens Clubs

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Originally Posted by cashman (Post 733118)

no bernie twas the Come @ Welcome i believe.

I would have put the top club as just at the top of Dill Hall, the Con as the middle and Come and Welcome as the bottom:) Shows how much I know:confused:

cashman

03-08-2009 23:14

Re: Working Mens Clubs

nah Mancie Willow Mount was n still is up Willows Lane just past charter st, have a mate works behind bar yon.;)

Mancie

03-08-2009 23:20

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yes Cashy I did mean Willows lane.. was a good club a probaby still is.. everyone seemed to know each other and not a bad word said about anyone.. good nights but if you won the bingo you had hell to pay from the old dears :D

cashman

04-08-2009 00:00

Re: Working Mens Clubs

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Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 733126)

yer a better man than me Mancie, i would never admit to playing bingo if i had, which i aint.:D

Mancie

04-08-2009 01:16

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well if you won a line on the bingo it was curried mushrooms and chips from the Chinky...if you won nowt it was curry sauce n' chips if you had a few bob left..a simple life that is long gone.

steeljack

04-08-2009 05:04

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Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 733135)

well if you won a line on the bingo it was curried mushrooms and chips from the Chinky...if you won nowt it was curry sauce n' chips if you had a few bob left..a simple life that is long gone.

never knew rabid Labour supporters were so racist , thought they were all inclusive ;) ;)

Barrie Yates

04-08-2009 05:22

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Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 733121)

I'm presuming the Willow Mount was up Willow St..if so I used to go there in the 70's with my then girlfriend and her parents, playing bingo, watched some "turns" and a couple of pints of mixed.. not 18 and I reckon everyone knew... but any club would'nt get away with it these days...makes me wonder how we all get upset about underage drinking when it's used to be a long standing transition into adulthood.. times have changed and I feeling old!

Yes Mancie, It was a Rite of Passage, 15 years old and going in the Cattle Market and the Australian, think the Cattle Market was Lion's and the Australian was Thwaites, we had to drink near the back door so that we could make a rapid exit. Mind you the beer was only 3.5% or so in those days - mid '50s.

Alan Gilmartin

04-08-2009 06:08

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Katex, Is there a fish & chip shop on Barnes Square & a bakery ?? Pickup St, maybe.

katex

04-08-2009 09:30

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Originally Posted by Alan Gilmartin (Post 733170)

Katex, Is there a fish & chip shop on Barnes Square & a bakery ?? Pickup St, maybe.

There is still the chippy .. Chinese owned now (I think .. will check) and an Indian take away plus a little cafe.

The Bakery (was it Elsie's ?) on Pickup Street is now owned as a sideline
by a catering company which is next door to the shop, called Gorgeous Gormets.

jaysay

04-08-2009 10:03

Re: Working Mens Clubs

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Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 733121)

Its on Willows Lane Mancie not Willow St. which is in the centre of Accy

Mancie

04-08-2009 10:27

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Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 733243)

Its on Willows Lane Mancie not Willow St. which is in the centre of Accy

well I knew it was somewhere in Accy..what with the LSD and booze must have lost the plot somewhere in them good old days!

Eric	06-08-2009 04:31

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Originally Posted by katex (Post 733219)

I remember the bakery .... great meat pies .... used to get penny dabs (I think that's what they called them) with fish bits on them from that chip shop .... and a great cheese and onion pie .... ubi sunt!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alan Gilmartin

06-08-2009 09:34

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Thanks Kate, I agree with Eric, mouths watering, but alas all gone never to return.

katex

06-08-2009 18:05

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Originally Posted by Alan Gilmartin (Post 733800)

Thanks Kate, I agree with Eric, mouths watering, but alas all gone never to return.

Used to love the little party pies from the bakery ... had to order them up front if needed a few for any special occasion. Think the one there now is quite good though .. never bought anything, but their corporate catering quality is of extremely high quality.

Never been to the chippy.

Didn't get a photo' of the Middle Club Eric .. went up .. forgot camera ... :D
Nothing to see yet anyway ... just fencing round the land now. However, you will not remember the one they built next to the old one anyway.

Eric	06-08-2009 19:25

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Originally Posted by katex (Post 733941)

I think I remember that there was a bowling green there .... and I def. remeber tha annual outing to Blackpool.

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