do you remember.....?

[jaysay]

There's quite a few photographs of by-gone shops on this site, if you've never seen it.

LIFE AND TIMES OF OSWALDTWISTLE

Thanks Rindi thats very interesting, will have a good snoop through the site tomorrow, is this site run by Ossy Goblin by any chance

 

[panther]

remember it as gateway, think that was in 70s?

white ash when it was the local landfill site ?

what are you on about???...LOL
im talking about where the co-op is now, it used to be gateway, sorry i should have said earlier...heheh

 

[panther]

I remember when there used to be a toy shop on union rd!!
yes where the age concern is now(I think that is what it is called), nr the library

 

[cashman]

what are you on about???...LOL
im talking about where the co-op is now, it used to be gateway, sorry i should have said earlier...heheh

i,m talking about where the co-op is now, watta ya on? gimme some.

 

[panther]

i,m talking about where the co-op is now, watta ya on? gimme some.

it was built in the 90's i think not the 70's....lol, ya div

 

[garinda]

I remember "skating" on the Swanee in the days when we used to get snow and ice in Winter. Also picking cotton grass seeds which we were convinced was the same as the American stuff the mills made into cloth. I think that's why it was called the Swanee.

I always wondered how it ended up being called the Swannee, thank you.

I used to thing it looked like a picture in my children's bible, that had a painting of Moses in a basket amongst the bullrushes.

It was much more exciting before they landscaped it, and made a boring field.

 

[cashman]

it was built in the 90's i think not the 70's....lol, ya div

well if i'm talking about the wrong shop- i cant argue wi that.

 

[panther]

do ya mean the old co-op was, where pet warehouse is nr or that building nr the golden cross?

 

[cashman]

do ya mean the old co-op was, where pet warehouse is nr or that building nr the golden cross?

i was meaning across from golden cross, if i'm wrong it wont be the first time.

 

[jaysay]

it was built in the 90's i think not the 70's....lol, ya div

It was there when I moved back to Ossy 22 years ago panter, but how long before I don't know

 

[cashman]

It was there when I moved back to Ossy 22 years ago panter, but how long before I don't know

which shop does she mean? not name, position.

 

[panther]

which shop does she mean? not name, position.

she has a name...lol
I mean the co-op now across from golden cross
that hasnt been there more than 22 years has it???...

 

[cashman]

she has a name...lol
I mean the co-op now across from golden cross
that hasnt been there more than 22 years has it???...

yep NOW whos the div?

 

[exaccylad55]

the sunken gardens before they built the Arndale centre?

 

[exaccylad55]

yes it is accy grammar I should know I used to live on hartman street just opposite the side gate to the playground

 

[roundossy]

can anybody tell me where the old snow city shop on union street was please my parents used to go there to do shopping and they was talking about it today

 

[roundossy]

the co-op in ossy was called gateway when it first opened yes but it was built in the 80s only remember cause i used to walk past it on my way to primary school

 

[cashman]

the co-op in ossy was called gateway when it first opened yes but it was built in the 80s only remember cause i used to walk past it on my way to primary school

i was thinking more late 70s?

 

[jaysay]

the sunken gardens before they built the Arndale centre?

Remember the gardens well, they used to have chains with spikes on between small stone pillars, and a car park at the back, I think the Arndale was built in the late fifties, but if I'm wrong I'm sure some one will piont it out

 

[MargaretR]

Remember the gardens well, they used to have chains with spikes on between small stone pillars, and a car park at the back, I think the Arndale was built in the late fifties, but if I'm wrong I'm sure some one will piont it out

When I started work at Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, we were in an office in the building, over the shops, in the block next to the corner bank, looking straight down Broadway. I started there in 1959 - I think that the gardens were built on sometime between 1962 and when the office moved to Melbourne House in 1965.