Support your local market this Christmas
 

1956 Style

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is any of those trading names remaining? can't think of one.

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think they should have a father christmas and a scrooge going round the market.

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I think Doug's is still in the market hall, although on a smaller scale than it used to be

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I liked the heading,

Only 20 shopping days to Christmas

That was real nostalgia, not like these days, Today leaves us with 100 shopping days to Christmas.

I thought Christmas was supposed to be 'good will to all men', how come everybody is busy laying in supplies as if it is going to be a seige?
Shopping Days Left 'til Christmas

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you moved house less and not told anyone?:D

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No, still in my little Mansion, I just got my priorities right, while all the other rioters, (sorry honesty makes me say looters), were going for traceable Plazma T.V.'s & mobile 'phones, I planned for a decent Christian Festival.

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Look at the bottom right hand side on the butchers advert.
'Note - we have been fortunate in being able to purchase AUSTRALIAN RABBITS'.Wow! What a Christmas dinner- a rabbit between the whole family!
Christmas 1956 style-I remember it well.Although I don't remember rabbit.
Is that when all our rabbits were infected or had we eaten them all in the war?
Any more pages like that,Anzac?

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Australian rabbit, served with a Myxomatosis jus.

:D

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Have lots of them which I am happy to post if you want to see them.

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Yes, please, anzac.

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Yes please, I enjoyed looking at this one. :)

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Please feel free to post em, was very interesting n they hold memories.:)

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Those Australian rabbits on sale in 1956 could have been victims of the myxomatosis, because Wikipedia shows it was deliberately introduced in Australia in 1950.

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I have a clipping from the Saturday The Observer Dec 18 1943 -
FEW APPLES OR ORANGES, BUT PLENTY OF MISTLETOE

'Not only toys are scarce. There will be few apples or oranges for sale in local shops this Christmas, an Accrington wholesaler told an 'observer' man yesterday.
Any oranges available will be reserved for the very young children.
There is no prospect of Canadian apples, nuts or other fruit.
Holly and mistletoe for Christmas decorating are plentiful, but the difficulty in transport, since they cannot be brought except on top of other loads. Hence they will remain dear in the shops, and nearly all the holly is likely to be taken for the making of wreaths. '

I love this - I had found the clipping in connection with family history research but it paints a picture of wartime which is amazing.
Maria M

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In my experience a refurb like this often leads to things on a smaller scale. Ten years ago we were living in the I discovered the Birmingham indoor markets which were great for meat and all sorts of other things. They promptly closed them for refurbishment and when they reopened they were nowhere near as nice - narrow aisles, cramped stalls, everything felt shrunken.

Haven't been in Accy market hall since the revamp but I think the outside stallls are a disaster. Very claustrophobic and detracting from the building itself. I know there were stalls there many years ago but they were temporary not permanent.

I do remember Doug's stall from the sixties. Undies and nighties I think.

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Would agree with you, Susie. When I was at College in Brum 40 years ago, I loved the old Bullring market. OK, it was a modern building, but the place itself was full of atmosphere, bustle and life...the true heart of a town/city centre just like markets all over the world are. Went back a few years ago and I was shocked at the change...a soulless, antiseptic sort of place with all the individuality drained from it.

Same thing applies to Accy market really. The "old" market may have been similarly housed in a 60's structure, but it was a thriving place full of character. The present outdoor market is a shadow of its former self. :(

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Completely agree with you Wyn, glad it's not just me. It also grieves me to think of the astronomical sums wasted on these useless projects which could be far better spent elsewhere.

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Never really understood the reasons behind demolishing the old market. After all, it was only built in 1961/62, so it can't have been structural. Maybe somebody could explain?

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Groove thinks the market is now rubbish and wouldnt walk 10 minutes to shop there, nevermind visit from a neighbouring town like shoppers of yore.