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| Azzabuv Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 8/28/2004 12:19:19 PM by Azzabuv | Bygone Shop Names posted on: 8/27/2004 4:30:05 PM Saxton's small Chip Shop. Butted up against Hunt's tall, old garden wall. Near the old Alma's Derby Rd; entrance. Till the mid-50s. Buxton's - Cobbler & Shoe Shop. Mid-way up Derby Rd; on the left. 1940s - mid 50s Approx. Brown's Newspaper shop. (Old Playfoot & Gray's). Next to the wide drive on Derby Rd;. Till 1949. Bilbie's Newspaper Shop. Bottom of Mount St; on the left. Till around the late 1950s mid -60s. Taylor's large Flour & Yeast shop. (The balm shop). Make your own bread and pies Etc. Derby Rd; across from the Red Lion Garage. Till about the mid 1950s. King's Motorcycles. Top of Fletcher St; & across from the Empire. Till about 1960. Semper's Toffee Shop. (Lucky Dip Bags). Ray St; facing the jitty to Broadway. Till approx. early -50s. The un-official Loscoe Road Boy's School Tuck Shop. Cream Puffs/Cream Horns = a threepenny bit for one or (if flush) a tanner for two. Loscoe Rd; facing the entrance to Watkinson St; Till approx. the 1960s? (A Tanner, or Sixpence = 2 & a half new pence.) The Maypole. Grocer. Top end of steep Market St; next to narrow jitty practically facing the end of Ray St; Manager - Mr. Hanley, of Nottm. Till the early 1960s. If you remember any bygone's - please add on? Azzabuv. |
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frano
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replied on: 9/25/2004 12:04:52 PM Below Saxton's chip shop on Derby Rd in the same block were two shops belonging to Oxley Brothers I think they were men's outfitters.On the opposite corner of Abbott St was Cousins fruit and veg shop.A bit further down was Marchbanks anything from a bike to a piece of leather to mend your shoes. Mr Shardlow the barber was close by.At the bottom of Mount St where Cousins moved to was Wilson's antique shop. The paper shop on the opposite corner was then Howarth's.A bit further was Lomax the grocer.Cluskey's the wool shop and Balls chemists were around there.Hunters groceries were about opposite the Empire.Before King's motor cycles it was Hepworth's tailors.Between there and Woolworths were the Maypole and British Traders,both grocers.Above Woolworths was Holland radio electrical etc. Further up was Broughton's jewellers,Sketchley,Hiltons shoes and next door was the Meadow Dairy where I was errand lad before I left school.The Maypole moved to there later on. |
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replied on: 9/25/2004 12:31:17 PM You,ve reeled a few remembered names in there, Frano. Before King's motor cycles and between the time of the Hepworth's the tailor's, wasn't there also a motor cycle business named 'Humphreys' there? Ah yes, the Maypole. I wish i had a pound for every time i scrubbed that tiled floor during my training for the grocery business which came to nil. (BIG pay down the collieries - they said). The two ruined shop buildings which stood across from Brown's/Playfoot and Gray's paper shop during the late 1940s. Was this wartime bomb damage? Also the three terraced white houses across from the bottom of Mount St; (joined on to Dr. Donnigan's large house) the one next to Morley's Derby Road frontage, where they say the German women were interned in during the War, was this also bomb damage. I remember the heap of rubble completely blocking Morley's side entrance from the floor to the ceiling of the covered jitty. The Second-Hand shop across the road from Saxton's chip-shop, next to the large pub yard - i never saw anyone ever use it, but each time i passed it over a few years, there was always a man's aged grizzled deep-lined face peering out of the corner of the window near the door. Any idea who this may have been? Anyway, thanks for the shop names. Some where remembered and some were not. Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 9/25/2004 4:19:21 PM Yes you are right about Humphrey's I couldn't remember the name.I spent many an hour in the workshop at the back.The ruined shops and white houses were like that before the war.The only bombs I remember were one near the top of Dunstead which removed some tiles off Dr Holmes's roof.Two more across Bailey Brook fields one of which killed a cow,so they said.The shop at the side of the Nags Head yard was empty most of the time.Several attepts to make a go of it ended in failure.About twenty yards further up there was Mr Stubbs the cobbler and the same distance again Miller's the butchers. |
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Azzabuv
Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 9/26/2004 12:13:23 AM by Azzabuv |
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replied on: 9/26/2004 12:12:27 AM Can you remember the Maypole's narrow back yard were several dustbins were kept. All kinds of meat used to end up in those dustbins and sometimes had to stand for a week. We called it Blue-bottle alley and if you stopped out there for more than a few minutes - you'd got it, what ever it was, sometimes taking a week or more to shift. I most probably saw you in Humphrey's work shop, used to call in quite a lot to do with m-bike issues. (late 1950s). Does 'Royal Enfield Crusader' bring anything to mind? After a while, the various shop name change-overs barely registered. It all became a bit of a bore. I was quite happy as long as the three main shops in Heanor remained the same, - Loui's, Elliots and the fish bar/shop on the market square. What more could you want, either before or after a visit to Loscoe Dam, the Dumbles, Shipley or the Peak. Can you remember the Butcher's, more or less across from Loui's, on Loscoe Road? The best Savoury Duck's in the Midlands. A last question. Was the 'Bon Bon shop' the small shop on the corner of the lane which led to Joan's Avenue from halfway down Loscoe Road, on the right. Packets of kaylie/caylie? and sherbet Etc. Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 9/26/2004 3:26:34 PM It was 1943 when I was at the then Meadow Dairy but that backyard was the same.In fact we had one customer used to inspect the contents of the bins to see if we had lied to her when she was told that we'd had no boiled ham. I don't recall the Enfield but it would be 1951ish when I started going there. The mechanics name was Fred.I started with a 500 AJS then onto a BSA Star Twin with a chair on.Then in 1955 wedding bells sounded and I moved to Eastwood so I didn't have the same amount of time to call. I think the Market chippie was called Lucas's.I don't remember the other shops maybe they were after I left. Talking of Loscoe dam,we used to walk just past the dam towards the main road and on the left there was path going towards the pit.On the left there was a high wall which we used to climb and on the other side was an enclosed swimming pool with cabins round the sides It was all derelict but still had water in. I've never seen it used.Anyone remember that? |
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replied on: 9/27/2004 11:36:16 AM It appears you were at Humphrey's several years before i was (1957). My first m-bike was a good old 125 cc BSA Bantam, can you believe it. It believed it should go backwards more than forwards. Retarded timing, they told me. Next the good old 250cc R.E.Crusader. A good bike unless you happened to do around 150 miles a day for a couple of days, then the head cylinder gasket used to distort and let the oil trickle free. Can you imagine meeting your mates with an oil trickling cylinder. You'd never live the total disgrace down. Some time later, a battered 350 Bullet, the best m-bike i ever had. Later i acquired a 750 Constellation plus side-car, from King's of Nottm. Yes, i can remember the battered red-bricked swimming pool wall at Ormonde Colliery. From the laughter and shouts we used to hear on occasions as we passed by, someone was making use of a free swimming baths. Did you ever visit the small concrete Observation post on top of the tallest tip-hill. It's small observation window faced towards Langley Mill, no doubt the expected advancing direction of the German Army if they had ever landed? Two men, with their light sub-machine guns, would no doubt have halted them in their tracks..........or........ Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 9/29/2004 9:42:11 PM I think the chip shop on the Market Place was Luker's, rather than Lucas's. |
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replied on: 12/13/2004 12:52:17 PM You're right-Lucas was the shoe shop at Langley Mill |
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replied on: 12/23/2004 2:12:33 PM Another past shop name for the list, thanks to 'Leesw' for reminding me. Walter Hancock, Ironmonger. Sited across from the Empire, till around the 1960s. Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 12/27/2004 7:02:59 PM In the 1940s, even though it was Hancocks my Father used to refer to it as Ackroyds.Perhaps that was the previous owner.Not sure about the spelling. |
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replied on: 12/27/2004 11:02:08 PM The name Ackroyd rings a bell. But whether from that time period or later/lately i'm not sure - Don Ackroyd. Is he a cricketer? Walter Hancock had a son by the name of Malcome, if memory serves me correctly. It was a highly interesting shop inside, all that gleaming ironwork, brasses and similar. I think we also had a couple of really stout buckets from him too. The shop had atmosphere. Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 1/17/2005 2:04:04 PM Can I add the name of my late father's business to this. He was Wilf Mosey and he had the Barber's shop at the very top of Derby Road (Tag Hill)for many years. Jack King worked there too as a barber,renting one of the chairs. My mother Audrey ran the fishing tackle side, sitting at the glass topped counter full of floats and lead sinkers. |
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Azzabuv
Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 1/18/2005 12:51:58 AM by Azzabuv |
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replied on: 1/18/2005 12:50:24 AM I'm not positive, Marylyn, but i think your dad's been mentioned sonewhere on the Site before. It might be by Frano, tacked onto the end of Elliot's chippy somewhere. Azzabuv. |
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Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 3/4/2005 8:15:21 PM by Azzabuv |
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replied on: 3/4/2005 7:49:33 PM Colleges refined furniture shop, at the bottom of Derby Rd; on the left - across from the Derby bus stop. Edna College was the proprietor, along with her husband. They were there in the 1950s or before, but closed in recent years. Does anyone have any actual earlier dating? and where was Hollingworths Sweetshop situated? Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 3/7/2005 8:48:59 PM There is still a Colleges furniture shop in Belper I assume it is the same family. Hollingworths was several yards above Hubbards chip shop in the later Milkbar area at the top of High St. |
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