do you remember.....?

[cashman]

Originally Posted by mez

e i still have a 6d fairy that was bought in woolworths although she is missing one leg & she still goes on my tree every year .

is it a heather mills lookalike mez?

[mez]

ha ha no definitly not ....mines prettier

[mallard]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Before McDonalds was invented - Woolworths was opposite the Market Hall,
It looked like this inside
http://museum.woolworths.co.uk/1950s-i-fancygoods.htm

thank,s for that margaret i bet them was the good day i miss out i was born in the 60s but it was nice to look back at

[panther]

remember when abbey street shopping centre was ray lyndons?
i think? i was only a kid!
with the different stalls inside it including a cafe!!

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by panther

remember when abbey street shopping centre was ray lyndons?

...or if you're really old, do you remember when it was a cinema?

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

...or if you're really old, do you remember when it was a cinema?

... and they had double seats in alcoves at the back

[panther]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

...or if you're really old, do you remember when it was a cinema?

noooooooooo i never knew that, ill have to ask me mum, how long ago was that?

[Wynonie Harris]

Think it probably closed in late 50's/early 60's. Don't remember the double seats, Margaret, but, then again, you don't really notice things like that when your mum's taking you to see Bambi!

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Think it probably closed in late 50's/early 60's. Don't remember the double seats, Margaret, but, then again, you don't really notice things like that when your mum's taking you to see Bambi!

it was the Palace Cinema.

[panther]

did there used to be a cinema, down that little street where accy observer used to be?, sure me mum said there was, that or i got the wrong street

[cashman]

[QUOTE=panther;426361]did there used to be a cinema, down that little street where accy observer used to be?, sure me mum said there was, that or i got the wrong street[/QUOTE observer office i think panther - telegraph office also there, was 2 cinemas the Princes @ Empire, next door to each other.

[cashman]

was also THE RITZ, the KINGS HALL, ODEAN, @Palace, accy had 6 cinemas.

[panther]

full of cinemas in them day eh!........they must not have been very big

[cashman]

Originally Posted by panther

full of cinemas in them day eh!........they must not have been very big

bigger than what we have now.lol

[panther]

found a website with old pics of accy.....look out for the old grammer school...looks posh!! third row in the middle

http://www.francisfrith.com/archive/...ton_photos.htm