Pie shops in Accy
 

Reading about the king of chippies (LENS of ranger St) reminded me of Pie shops, does anyone remember the Pie shop on the corner of Richmond St/Higher Antley St ? cannot remember the shops name. The owner supposedly had the biggest cat in England that sat in the shop on a box, man it was massive it was the size of a medium size dog.As a kid was given the job of getting a quick tea for the family used to get pies and peas and gravy in a bowl .In those days you could not have called this fast food more like slow food.
Was there any more in Accy? and also were they any better than this one.

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Mrs Almonds Shop.......at the end of Marsden St.......diagonally opposite the Woodnook pub.
We used to go there late on a Saturday lunchtime and she would give us all the boiled spuds that were left, and we used to buy(at a knockdown price) any meat pies/steak puddings/potatoe pies.....and any squashed cakes she would give us to eat on the way home.......She knew that it was hard work feeding seven children, and that Ma had not much money......her gifts of food sometimes kept us going.

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You're thinking of Pennocks, John. That cat was so big that it actually made the Guinness Book of Records at one point. Yep, the pies were great! Remember their homemade ice lollies too?

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That was Mrs. Peanock (not sure how that is spelt) and she did Lancashire Hotpot, didn't know about the pies!

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There's a few more mentioned in this thread.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ops-19183.html

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There used to be a good Pie shop called Smiths which was on Cotton Street, straight facing the bottom of Royds Street, Linden Cronshaw was the Baker there, they had another shop also called Smiths on Abbey Street but that wasn't quite as good. Also one called Haworths on Nuttall street....its still a Pie shop now but its called Hurns...still do good Pies though, there steak ones are brilliant!


Best Regards - Taggy

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There was a pie shop on corner of higher antley st and hopwood st , mum used to get us pie and peas on the odd dinner time :alright:
ian

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I think that was called Mona's...but if anyone knows different I will stand corrected.

There was also a very good pie shop at the top of Little Blackburn Road....they did delicious corned beef pasties.......and I loved their Russian cake.......I once asked what was in it and the lady who served in the shop said I shouldn't ask....that was because it was all the off cuts of cakes, mixed with Jam and then icing on top.

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Were they vimto flavoured by any chance wyonne?............ bet you know donald bailey who lived round the corner from pennocks,..........he lived on higher antley st............ couple of doors after that shop that was painted greeen that sold vimto ice lollies.

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I think the cat was called Sooty!!!!

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Yeah, that's it, John, Vimto flavoured...mmm..can taste 'em now! Don't remember Donald Bailey. My mate, Alan Whittle lived right across from the shop and another of my mates, Alec Chapple lived round the corner on Richmond Hill Street, across from you. :)

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anyone remember SMITHS confectioners near accy post office ?.

they did decent pies in at a place on nutall steet when i used to live round there,you could also get get pudding and veg there.

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Yep i remember them, i mentioned em in post no 6 above!

I knew a Donald Bailey, he used to live on Belfield Road but they moved, dont know where to though, had about 6 kids, (Michael, Susan, David, Donna are 4 i recall) and he was a Court Usher at one point!

Best Regards - Taggy

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There was nout to beat Jimmy Stivies 8 a loose, corner of Kay Street (I think) a great huge plate of prata pie:D:mosher:

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Donald Bailey worked as a butcher in accy Market and had a White Lambretta GP125 .
Wyonne do I know you , because it is obvious that you know me.
I am roaming round the streets trying to remember the lads who lived round there .
I remember Alan Chapple and his mum and dad, you must remember Dave Lang who lived opposite me who had a sister called Diane who was about your age.
Give us a clue which street did you live on.

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PM sent, John. :)

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Thanks I have replied

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A very good pie and also other things like sausage rolls pasties and a very good selection of cakes all made on the premises could be bought at the mr and mrs alan presho shop on parker street rishton facing the now empty broadloom carpet works Alan did most of the baking his meat and potatoe pies delicious after the works closed alan retired

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I too remember that shop but always knew it as Sandras..My mum used to send me for Courting Cake??

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Courting Cake:eek::eek::eek: I haven't heard of that for a very long time, can remember my old Gran making that when I was knee high to a grasshopper:D

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Maybe Sandra took over from Mona....my recollections are of the 1950's.

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I recall that term being used too when i was a little lad....what actually was "Courting Cake"?

Best Regards - Taggy

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Dunno Taggy, another one from way back was "Funeral Cake" dunno what that was neither?:confused:

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I think it was a flat cake with jam in the middle, but hay I've slept a lot since my old Grannie used to make it Taggy:D

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Ah, just like what they'd call a Jam slice nowadays then Jaysay! Be great to know how it got its name.....anyone on here old enough??:D


Best Regards - Taggy

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here you go Courting Cake recipe:cook38:

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Looks damn good that......Imagine the ammount of pepper Johnny Walker would put on that!!!;)


Best Regards - Taggy

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There was a very good pie shop and bakery at the corner of Spring Hill Road and Pickup street. They did great pies and sometimes very large pies in 18 inch diameter enamel bowls when you wanted to feed the masses.

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I knew Billy Bowden very well when he had his shop on Warner street.
He had two sons Peter and Phillip. Phillip worked for Bill and Peter had his own pie shop at the bottom of Hood street. When I came to Accrington in 1966/7 I was a good mate of Peter and when he got banned from driving he asked me to work for him driving his car about and doing a bit in the shop making pies. The car was a Vauxhall Cresta reg number PBV 62. He should have kept the number when he changed his car it could read Peter Boden Vehicle.
Peter got all his pudding off Billy and Billy took some pies and bowls of peas from Peter.
Phillip used to come round every morning to deliver the puddings and pick up the pies and peas.
I ahd full use of Peter's car and also did a bit of repping for him trying to sell his pies to shops and pubs. He had a good selection of customers in Accrington, Burnley, Ossy and Church. I got a bit fed up and started work driving for Batty Holt tours Blackburn and then went to Gilbraith Tankers for 30 years till I retired in 1998.

The strange thing abouth the job is the fact that never ever in my life have I eaten meat fish or poultry as it makes me ill but I worked in a pie shop and even convinced potential customers that I had one every day, goodness knows what would have happened if they had asked me to try one.

Gremlin R.T.

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I'm trying to picture where the Pie shop would have been on Hood Street, i can recall one at Corner of Horne Street, a long while back but cant remember who had it though!

Best Regards - Taggy

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was told long ago peter boden had gone living in the mountains Thailand Way, last year someone said he was now back home, perhaps you know Gremlin?

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It was a corner shop at the bottom end of Hood street opposite the side of the New Brewery. The side with the door was hood street and the side with no door was Maudsley street. This was in 1966/8. It must have been number 2, I lived at 22 further up, same side.

I was talking to a chap only a few weeks ago when we were having our cars valetted and he said Peter was home for a few weeks but will have gone back overseas now.

Gremlin R.T.

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We'll be seeing you on Master Chef next Beni:D

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Think that was called Joe Macs (can't remember is proper name)can remember the chap was a really big bloke, who ate all the pies:D

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I don't think so,some peoples cooking is called Cordon Bleu. Mine is more Cordoned Off.:D:D

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Is that before or after you cook it:D

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had forgot about that little shop, only used it occasionally, was livin on dowry st at that time, ta fer update on pete.:)

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[quote=johnenglish;777965]Donald Bailey worked as a butcher in accy Market and had a White Lambretta GP125 .
Wyonne do I know you , because it is obvious that you know me.
I am roaming round the streets trying to remember the lads who lived round there .
I remember Alan Chapple and his mum and dad, you must remember Dave Lang who lived opposite me who had a sister called Diane who was about your age.
Give us a clue which street did you live on.[/quote]

I remember Dave & Diane Lang. Did they live on Lang St near the underground??

There was also a good pie shop on the corner of Empress St & Swiss St.

My favourite at the moment is Hopkins bakery on Queen St Gt Harwood.

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Didn't 'Greens' have a good reputation at one time for their pies ?

Think they had more than one shop .. can remember they had one on Norfolk Street for a while.

Did they go more into some sort of wholesale/contract work later ? Can remember seeing their vans about.

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Yeah remember now..i was getting mixed up between Horne St and Hood St!

Best Regards - Taggy

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Were Greens bought out by Hollands many moons ago, or am i thinking of some other firm?

Best Regards - Taggy

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Greens used to have a unit on Brookside ind est near Vine Mill. When I worked up there we used to buy stuff from them.

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Does anyone remember the pie shop on the corner of Lower Antley and Grimshaw St. It was owned by Jack & Millie Brennan, then they sold it to the Kelly's. It was a terraced house and what would have been the front room was a cafe area. Wagon drivers used it a lot. You could also get good pie & peas from Kendals Hotel kitchen. The entrance was down some steps at the front of the hotel at the corner of Fox St & Blackburn Rd, opposite the Imperial.

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Something like that Taggy .. couldn't remember who bought them though. Wonder if they acquired them for their customer base/competition ? Certainly didn't make use of their recipes ... :D:D

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Indeed they did,no matter what pie you bought they all tasted the same.:confused:

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LOL ... never had one Benipete ... just people talk . You mean their cheese and onion would taste the same as their steak and kidney .. :eek:

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Not sure about that one but the final crunch came when my Arroz Abanda became Arroz Abandoned.:D

Sorry I just slipped that one in for the Spanish cheffy ones:theband:

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No that was the sausage and potato(may contain nuts):hidewall::hehetable

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I reckon Hollands pies were better than Greens...still not a patch on most smaller pie shops but I don't know of any chippies that sold really decent pies.
I seem to remember Hollands changing their meat pie recipe during the BSE beef outbreak and started using pork.. I'm not sure if they ever changed back to beef.

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I was wondering about that and though I am getting a bit tatty in years I still couldn't recall any shops on Horne street, Riley's snooker were on the side opposite the houses. There was a corner shop lower down Meadow street from the Royal Oak with Guiseppe the tailor opposite it. He made me a few suits in the past and also made a few for the snooker lads when they visited Riley's, Dennis Taylor wore one when he won the world final.
Peter Boden employed about three women (including my wife to be) and a man in the bakery and only last week we were in Barden Mill and a lady came up to my wife and started chatting, she was a van driver for Peter and recognised my wife after all those years.
I looked on Hood street two weeks ago and thank goodness I got out while the going was good and we got a very decent price for our house which was one of the three bigger ones on the street.

One chap lived in the house attached to the bakery and it's door was on Maudsley street, Tony was his name and he started dabbling in second hand ornaments etc and I lost track of him untill a couple of years ago. he lives in one of the grand converted houses on the right a few hundred yards from Portfield bar lights. He has a nice Jaguar and his wife a BMW sports convertable. Big change from Maudsley street eh.

Gremlin R.T.

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big kenner might have changed hollands pies reciepe to stop mancie climbing in and knicking them :D

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Holland's pies aint what they used to be in my younger days when this van delivered them.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...n/DSCF3589.jpg

Wow, I managed to post a picture, must be getting clever in my old age.

Gremlin R.T.

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Hollands Pies made of fly's concrete bottoms iron sides:D

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\it's good to see they make 'em a bit bigger these days:):)

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all this talk of pies is making me hungry.....

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In the early 80's there was a confectioners on Blackburn Rd, West End called Thomas Ashaski (hope I spelt it right). He made what I can only describe as the worlds finest Meat & Onion pies. When slapped between each side of one of his buttered teacakes (yes i still call 'em teacakes even though I live in Bolton) these were "to die for", "manna from heaven". In fact the day I mashed the pies for the workforce of Arnold Rileys in the spokes of my bike I very nearly did die for 'em. lol.

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:D.. to be honest when they put the fence up it did mess up my midnight shopping.:D

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Arnold Rileys MTB, so you knew Mary, David and Jon:D

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Yes indeed Jaysay I did. If memory serves me right we exchanged a few PMs last year on the subject.
Ian

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Pies aint what they used to be,but i must say oddies spud pies are still excellent.

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So we did Ian, you'll have to excuse me these days my memory ain't as good as it used to be its those little grey cells that keep going missing that's the problem:D

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just remembered how sloppy the meat and spud pies were at greggs.big round things,they always fell apart.loved them though and now greggs dont even do spud pies!! surely its an afront to our history ???

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This was malc and jean grahams, the have owned the bread basket in ossy for the last 30 years

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mona grahams, mother of malc bread basket in ossy

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What was that one called at the top of tinker brook, roughly where the co-op is not?

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yeah thats right..pennocks...i led right around the corner on pendle st...mum used to send me with a dish to buy hot pot...there was a big factory there...called howard and bulloughs..my dad worked there for a while...