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lancsdave said:
Out of curiosity, how many shops can people think of that have been going for 20 years .

We know food shops like butchers, bakers tend to have a long family history but how many non-food shops have lasted that long ?

I guess Garth Dawsons will be one of them, after that I'm stuck :)
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Assorted charity shops.

:D

Specs, Peel St. pharmacy?
 
Boots, though it has move locations. Trevor Adams on Warner St, Gene Sutcliffe, Clock shoppe, Humberstones, the shoe place on Little Blackburn Rd. Art shop on Bank St. Peters Jewellers. Archway store near the Railway Pub. Plus 2 hair salon.

on a mish now!!!
 
Saw (Davies of Accrington) van parked in Blackburn Town Centre yesterday, and at around 8-9PM saw it parked on a house drive near Preston New Road.
 
my hairdressers ... must be coming up to 20 years hes been there ... and before that he was on avenue parade ...
 
Must be going on nearly twenty years Originals (menswear) have been going.

Although it's changed hands, isn't the camera shop still called Garth Dawson's?
 
S W Allens - Opticians on Dutton Street
Abduls Kebab House
Chinese on Blackburn Road under the viaduct
Picture Shop at top of Little Blackburn Road
 
hedman2003 said:
S W Allens - Opticians on Dutton Street
Abduls Kebab House
Chinese on Blackburn Road under the viaduct
Picture Shop at top of Little Blackburn Road
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You gotta be kidding ... the chinese under the viaduct:eek: If it's the one that I'm thinking of, it was the first chinese I ever went into. The first chinese I'd ever eaten. But that was .... let me count:confused: ... over 47 years ago!!!!!!! It can't be the same place, can it?
 
What about Little Paris hairdressers on the block on Blackburn Road after Hartmann Street? Been there for knocking on 50 years, with the same shop sign featuring that silhouette of the Eiffel Tower. Also, further along the same block the Azad, where I first tasted a curry around 40 years ago!
 
Eric said:
You gotta be kidding ... the chinese under the viaduct:eek: If it's the one that I'm thinking of, it was the first chinese I ever went into. The first chinese I'd ever eaten. But that was .... let me count:confused: ... over 47 years ago!!!!!!! It can't be the same place, can it?
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Eric - fraid i can't go back 47 years - well not in terms of going to that Chinese but it's
still the same guy who owned it 30 plus years ago in my early drinking days as we used to go there every Saturday and Sunday night after the last game of pool in the Railway when Gordon and Brenda Shearon had the pub

those were the days - pub crawl round Accy follwed by a Chinese
 
Eric said:
You gotta be kidding ... the chinese under the viaduct:eek: If it's the one that I'm thinking of, it was the first chinese I ever went into. The first chinese I'd ever eaten. But that was .... let me count:confused: ... over 47 years ago!!!!!!! It can't be the same place, can it?
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That would be the King Wah Eric, name was later changed to the Sun Wah, after the infamous "Cats in the Fridge" prosecution i think it was.:eek::hehetable
 
Didn't last orders used to be half ten on Sundays, in the dim and distant past?

If you went in that Chinese, after the pubs had closed, you could carry on drinking a bit longer.

:D
 
garinda said:
Didn't last orders used to be half ten on Sundays, in the dim and distant past?

If you went in that Chinese, after the pubs had closed, you could carry on drinking a bit longer.

:D
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Yep sunday hours were 12-00 -2-00 n 7- 10-30, thats when i commenced me love of cricket, ye could sup all afternoon at the match.:D:D
 
garinda said:
Didn't last orders used to be half ten on Sundays, in the dim and distant past?

If you went in that Chinese, after the pubs had closed, you could carry on drinking a bit longer.

:D
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Indeed it was 10.30 for last orders on a Sunday - when did it fall into line with the rest of the week - ws it when 24 hr drinking came in - it's not that long ago is it

Sorry Garinda thats gone over my head!! and I'm not that tall
 
hedman2003 said:
S W Allens - Opticians on Dutton Street
Abduls Kebab House
Chinese on Blackburn Road under the viaduct
Picture Shop at top of Little Blackburn Road
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S.W. Allens was there in the early 60s, was the first job I worked on when I left school and started as an apprentice joiner, we were refurbishing the shop, that was 1962
 
hedman2003 said:
Eric - fraid i can't go back 47 years - well not in terms of going to that Chinese but it's
still the same guy who owned it 30 plus years ago in my early drinking days as we used to go there every Saturday and Sunday night after the last game of pool in the Railway when Gordon and Brenda Shearon had the pub

those were the days - pub crawl round Accy follwed by a Chinese
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Its not the same chap that first opened it hedman, it was first opened in about 56/57 but in between its been an indian type restaurant, may have been pakistani cuisine, not sure, that was the mid 70s
 
hedman2003 said:
Indeed it was 10.30 for last orders on a Sunday - when did it fall into line with the rest of the week - ws it when 24 hr drinking came in - it's not that long ago is it

Sorry Garinda thats gone over my head!! and I'm not that tall
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It was half ten on Sundays and Monday to Thursday too Rindi, only opened until 11pm on Friday and Saturday
 
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