do you remember.....? - Page 15

motherhubbard · 17-03-2008, 20:00

When Broadway was a sunken garden, I used to sit with my mum and have an ice lollie from the cinema.
When the market was in Peel Street
The UCP Tripe shop on Blackburn Road
The New Era (when it first opened) and the dances
Holidays with the Youth Club (Austria)
Mods driving up and down Blackburn Road outside the Market hall
Sitting and listening to Radio Luxemburg on the bench at the bottom of Barnfield Street
Big Ben anyone know what that was??

cashman · 17-03-2008, 20:27

BIG Ben was a bottle of ale brewed by Thwaites.

a damn good un.

Debbie J · 17-03-2008, 21:16

I remember a lot of the Accy stuff mentioned on here. I also used to sit on the 'big hill' on Barnfield st listening to radio Luxemburg. I also 'grew up' on number 1 stall and used to be one of the itinerants who frequented the copper kettle cafe I was 14 at the time. Lol

cashman · 17-03-2008, 21:20

ah ya missed me debbiej i was "Grand Master" of the No1 Stall.

Alan Gilmartin · 17-03-2008, 22:42

This Mod didnt have a car or a scooter in those days, spent too much money on clothes. It was always bus or train.

cashman · 17-03-2008, 22:47

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Originally Posted by Alan Gilmartin

This Mod didnt have a car or a scooter in those days, spent too much money on clothes. It was always bus or train.

quite a few Mods did though Al,remember wrapping one or two of the long mirrors over the handlebars.

motherhubbard · 18-03-2008, 07:05

I remember meeting others at the No 1 stall, a lot of the lads used to play snooker at the Elite club? think it was that. Used to sit for hours in the Blue Dahlia much to parents alarm. Copper kettle another haunt.
The walled area in front of the market hall was the deck where everyone met up at the weekend.
Used to frequent the pub that was where the old cinema used to be on Broadway, packed to the doors most nights, then up to the pub on Church Street or I think one at the bottom near the viaduct?

Wynonie Harris · 18-03-2008, 07:33

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Originally Posted by motherhubbard

The walled area in front of the market hall was the deck where everyone met up at the weekend.

MH, there's a whole thread on this...

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f80/deck-5355.html

Alan Gilmartin · 18-03-2008, 08:09

OK then lets all met on the Deck. Another Saturday Night and I aint got nobody, got some money cause I just got paid, how I wish I had someone to talk to Im in an awful way.

motherhubbard · 18-03-2008, 08:17

Anticipation of who you would see, hoping that it would not rain, making plans, new friends then new places a long way from home and very young, it seems like only yesterday.

cashman · 18-03-2008, 09:12

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Originally Posted by Alan Gilmartin

OK then lets all met on the Deck. Another Saturday Night and I aint got nobody, got some money cause I just got paid, how I wish I had someone to talk to Im in an awful way.

yeh just made me dig me sam cooke single out Al.

jaysay · 18-03-2008, 18:19

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Originally Posted by motherhubbard

I remember meeting others at the No 1 stall, a lot of the lads used to play snooker at the Elite club? think it was that. Used to sit for hours in the Blue Dahlia much to parents alarm. Copper kettle another haunt.
The walled area in front of the market hall was the deck where everyone met up at the weekend.
Used to frequent the pub that was where the old cinema used to be on Broadway, packed to the doors most nights, then up to the pub on Church Street or I think one at the bottom near the viaduct?

I used to mate out with the guy who ran the Dahlia, Jovani he was called, but everbody called him John, he actually took out British citezenship back in the seventes, haven't seen him for years now. The Pub on Church street was the Bridge is still there and the one near the viaduck was the Blockade it was a, either Sam or John Smiths house

cashman · 18-03-2008, 18:53

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Originally Posted by jaysay

I used to mate out with the guy who ran the Dahlia, Jovani he was called, but everbody called him John, he actually took out British citezenship back in the seventes, haven't seen him for years now. The Pub on Church street was the Bridge is still there and the one near the viaduck was the Blockade it was a, either Sam or John Smiths house

Blockade was John Smiths, only Sam Smiths in Accy Centre was the Big Crown, Eddie n Joyce had the Blockade for many years 60s/70s the back room was well known for getting stoned in,.................... so they say

keetah992000 · 18-03-2008, 21:43

dont know if anyones mentioned it but do you remember what was Glynwebbs being asda ?
My mum used to say it was really small and packed and seemingly cheap at the time

flashy · 18-03-2008, 21:46

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Originally Posted by keetah992000

dont know if anyones mentioned it but do you remember what was Glynwebbs being asda ?
My mum used to say it was really small and packed and seemingly cheap at the time

i sort of remember when it was asda, you had to go up a slope to get into the actual shopping bit....i think