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suzard
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replied on: 12/10/2004 12:35:42 PM Robert, Peel St chip shop was run by Morris-chips were great-and he'd cut you a slice of his home cooked ham to go with them.The chip shop is still there-unfortunately Morris isn't-been modernised but still good chips.The chip shops I remember are Hopewells(opposite Railway Tavern L Mill)-Kitty Hopewell used to serve-in a book of old Langley Mill I have there is a photograph of Mr/Mrs Hopwell with Kitty as a babe in arms outside the chip shop-Kitty in her 30s/40s when I was a child-now Hopewells is a Chinese-still good chips. There was TEATHERS wooden hut on the croft-which used to get flooded regularly-it must have closed bef 1950-Hutchinsons on Bank St-that too closed bef 1950and there was a chip shop opposite Aldercar Infants school(school and shop now demolished)-we used to call there on the way home from brownies-because they had special vinegar! Found out years later it was "special" because they watered it down! We used to fetch chips in a basin, wrapped in a tea towel or tray cloth! During the blackout in the war my auntie(who was very pregnant at the time)went to the Aldercar chip shop-rattling the basins and lighting her way with a torch-a member of the Home Guard appeared and shouted "Are you signalling to the enemy?" Really frightened my Auntie-and my cousins arrival is blamed on a visit to the chip shop!!!!! |
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RMMee
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replied on: 12/10/2004 6:36:18 PM That's brilliant. Whereabouts on Bank Street was the chippie - I know/knew about the others, but not that one! When I worked for the Fruit Bowl (opposite the Railway Tavern) one of my jobs was to carry sacks of potatoes round to the chip shop (or was it already a Chinese Takeway by then?) next to Sutcliffe's. I didn't mind carrying sacks of potatoes, but most customers only wanted one - they bought 20 or 30 at a time! (I was only a lad - early 1970's) |
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frs
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replied on: 12/12/2004 5:36:45 AM If I remember correctly there was another chippy in Heanor .The one down below the milk bar Ithink it was run by a couple called hubbards ,very popular after going to the Empire cinema in the 50.s |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 12/12/2004 3:12:44 PM i know hubbards had a chip shop near plough garage on holbrooke street. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 12/12/2004 4:32:24 PM Hubbards..... Hubbards. Yes, that name definitely rings a bell. But where? I can definitely remember saying around the teenage years - "Just going to Hubbards", or a very, very similar name. I cannot remember a chippy below Loui's though. There was a chippy near the bottom of Loscoe Rd; on the left, but i can't remember another one down there. Hubbard's/Hubberd's, - seems to ring Ray Streetish way somehow. Any further info on that, Iceboy53? - frs? Azzabuv. |
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frano
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replied on: 12/12/2004 7:09:23 PM I remember Hubbards in the 1940s about 50 yards or so below Red Lion Square on the right going down.I think later on it was a bike parts shop. I've an idea there was a newsagent just below. |
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replied on: 12/13/2004 1:05:33 AM The chip shop on Bank Street was at number 9-there used to be a "glass place" (conservatory) on the back with a big sink in it-where they used to peel the potatoes-wonder if its still there?? |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 12/13/2004 1:15:24 AM Hi, Frano. Long time no see. Somebody said you'd won the lottery! Yes, i've got it now. It WAS below Loui's. Wasn't it one of the first 'old time' establishments to shut up shop in the early 50s? Could the funeral ornaments shop have taken it over? Azzabuv. |
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frs
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replied on: 12/13/2004 5:44:40 AM I think it was ,they were elderly ,I think the son later had a shop opposite selling photographic equipment |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 12/13/2004 2:17:23 PM Hi, Frs. Didn't one of the original Chinese Take-Aways try to set up shop somewhere below Loui's in the 1950s? I remember a story going round at the time, not long after the Korean War, the staff of the shop were unloading crates of pineapples Etc. from their supply lorry, when they accidentally dropped a crate. It smashed open on the road and a handgrenade casually rolled down Loscoe Road. Was this an 'Urban Myth', or was there some truth to the story in someway? Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 12/13/2004 8:02:11 PM i'll have to get back to you about hubbards, but do you remember a little wooden shack right at the top of holbrook street in between two houses that used to sell chips. you could home made crisps from him aswell, the name i cannot think of though, but the place was below the shop before the lane that leads to the butchers arms. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 12/13/2004 8:29:19 PM Different chip shop, but has anyone ever heard of Brocklesby's Crisps, from Heanor, circa 1930? |
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frano
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replied on: 12/14/2004 6:41:27 PM Hi Azzabuv.I'm still here keeping an eye on you all. No lottery win yet. There was another chip shop at the top of Ray St, Buxtons, a different family to the one near Elliots. It was next door to Ward's barbers shop which was right on the point of Ray St & Thorpes Rd. When Wards closed Buxtons took that over as well. I remember when I was about 4 or 5 Mr Buxton used to make icecream & bring it round the streets by horse & cart, blowing his whistle. Thats Mr Buxton not the horse. |
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replied on: 12/15/2004 9:23:26 AM franco Yes, that was my Uncle, Wilfred Buxton. Ann Marie |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 12/18/2004 1:33:28 PM Hi, Frano. Yes, i remember calling there a few times, but what with Elliotts and Saxtons, part way up Derby Rd; it was a case of 'a quicker chippy' wins the day. Is it true that they are going to ban chips now on the grounds of them being unhealthy? Bring back the GOOD OLD DAYS. Where do this lot of squeaky clean (not blobs?) 'we know best for you' load of cobblers come from. Have we lost a war somewhere and don't know it? |
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