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Did Wardleworths not used to be were Argos is, seem to remember it being up there but possibly wrong in as to exact building. ( I know it wasn't a supermarket )

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No, they were the shop next to Argos. On the corner of Bank St.
I spent many a happy hour browsing in there and mourn the passing of Wardleworths and Seed and Gabbutts(Blackburn)......another one of my haunts

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Wardleworths were originally on the other of the road and ran up from Bank Street and Wardleworths Printers were across the street at the back of the shop, Tasker Street I think.

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I remember them being on the corner of Little Backburn Road and Bank St.
I also remember them taking the shop at the Blackburn road end of Broadway.
I do not recall them having any other site....but then I am only a young thing(69 next time):).

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Wardleworths were definitely on the left hand side of 'Little' Blackburn road going up from Peel street. I remember my dad having a bump with his motor bike and sidecar outside their shop in the early 50's. I split my nose and was taken into a pub across the road to wait for the ambulance.

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Was the pub called Freemasons Arms or something like that? When I started work I worked just around the corner. I served my time as a printer with Fred Dalton and he had an old pub next to the Blind Institute the pub had been called The Ferrier's Arms after it closed as a pub a dentist Chris Heyes used it as his surgery but he still left the pub door on.

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I don't think you are wrong, I can remember a "Sauls" on Black Abbey Street in the early sixties.

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Worked at Seed and Gabbutts for five wonderful years before I had my kids. The Gabbutts were true gentlemen and always called us as miss so and so. I loved working there, being a book worm.

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My sister worked at Wardleworths Blackburn road shop straight from school, (1964); then for many years at the shop on Broadway; in fact you may well know her Margaret, Her name before she got married was Linda Hadfield she went to Woodnook school but maybe a couple of years below you, if I remember rightly her nick name was Tish.

As ever, stay happy, Your's Taddy.

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I must have known her as I was a frequent visitor to that lovely bookshop.....however i don't remember her from school.
I left in 1962.....it is usual for you to remember the students ahead of you, but less likely that you remember those who were below you.

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I remember the Redmans and the smell of freshly ground coffee. Sugar was weighed into brown bags and butter taken from huge slabs and patted into shape before wrapping . Bacon and cooked meats were freshly cut for you to the thickness desired. I also remember money was put into little containers and wizzed over to the cash desk on wires , the container would be returned with your change in. The supermarket was Tesco and I remember saving the green sheild stamps in books. I collected loads but still had some which were never cashed in when they stopped giving them years later.