GJ2004 Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I am replying to this with my husbands log in, I worked at buy wise for 3 years back in 1968-1971, I lived on the flower estate so used to walk down Hindhouse lane & then back again what a hill to walk up, I couldn't do it now, me & the girls I worked with used to go to the cannon pub at lunchtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coddy Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I remember the drs, Dr Pettigrew was my Dr also. I remember Mcgreggors shop, was always being sent there when we ran out of anything but as for butchers at pagehall I remember Kramers or Cramers, not sure how it was spelt, used to get bread cakes from there as well as bacon, must have been the pork butchers in that case. One thing I do know about cramers is that my mom went all the way home, as I remember must have been a good 15 minutes walk, maybe more, before she remembered she had left me in my pram outside cramers!! couldnt do that nowadays, I would have been long gone, obviously no one wanted me then....story of my life!! sob sob!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I remember Bill Beevers motorbike shop when he first opened it. I think he'd won some race or other on the Isle of Man TT and he opened the shop on the strength of that. He put the 'bike in the window. Didn't have any porn in there then. Or was I just a late developer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsneck Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Next to the natwest bank was a small tobacco/ice cream shop, called balls or walls, then a bookies. Was the hairdressers called sally anne. Siddalls fruit and veg, but didnt they have some kind of plumbing/building company. was there a davys bun shop, and a chemist on there. I was a paper boy for underwoods from 74-78 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie Rage Posted March 28, 2008 Author Share Posted March 28, 2008 I remember the buses fondly. No's 75 and 33 in particular. Then later there was the 20. It seems that whenever I came out there was always one of them coming up/down Firth Park Road. There were also the out of town buses too (can't remember the numbers: 65?) and the 150/151 that went up Barnsley Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louisbourg Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 oh what was the butchers called opposite corner to the firth park hotel was down there today and its up for let not the butchers they had lovely egg custards and dripping cakes i had to go for my nannan who lived on robey street and then the newsagents just on the front there too and o popple street chip shop , scollops 5 p each them were the days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Miller Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 oh what was the butchers called opposite corner to the firth park hotel was down there today and its up for let not the butchers they had lovely egg custards and dripping cakes i had to go for my nannan who lived on robey street and then the newsagents just on the front there too and o popple street chip shop , scollops 5 p each them were the days When I lived down there, the butchers was Spinks, next door to that was a newsagent, can't for the life of me remember what that was called, but it was owned by an ex Sheffield Utd player, can't remember his name either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 I remember the buses fondly. No's 75 and 33 in particular. Then later there was the 20. It seems that whenever I came out there was always one of them coming up/down Firth Park Road. There were also the out of town buses too (can't remember the numbers: 65?) and the 150/151 that went up Barnsley Road. Dunno about thr 150/151 but there was the 265 Barnsley bus. From town this was pick-up only until it got to Lane Top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsneck Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 When I lived down there, the butchers was Spinks, next door to that was a newsagent, can't for the life of me remember what that was called, but it was owned by an ex Sheffield Utd player, can't remember his name either. I think it was Brian Bradley, he used to have another shop on rushby street which his brother used to run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 I think it was Brian Bradley, he used to have another shop on rushby street which his brother used to run. It was definitley Brian Somebody. He used to open at 5:00 am to catch the morning shift-workers on their way to work. One shop not mentioned was the beer-off on the corner of Barretta street. Kept by an ex RAF officer, whose name I can't recall, and sold draught ale from a hand pump. And yes the pork butcher's shop was Kramers, perhaps Friedrich's shop was the one at the bottom of Bellhouse. I believe the other butcher's shop at PH was Ashton's which later became Siddall's green-grocers ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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