bullerboY Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Hi fleetwood it was The Canadian Fur Trading Co.I remember the radio shop,it went to Naional Tyers then to the Tile shop.It was just up from Jack Dysons motorbike shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 Hi bullerboY Yes - some memories there! I will remember Mrs Styran and her drug store/drink shop. Apart from Bovril, sarsparilla, peppermint drinks etc. she also sold Horlicks ice lollies in animal shapes. And then there were the dried herbs... My first "business venture" was making herbal cigarettes and flogging them at school. I would buy 2 oz. of raspberry leaves for 8½d. at Mrs Styran’s. Then I'd use my Rizla machine to make about 30 fags that I could sell for ½d each.. At Waldot in February 1972, I wonder if you remember a smashed-up 1967 Reliant 21E van being brought in. Beyond repair, it had collided with a tree up Bradfield, near the Haychatter. I bought it on a Monday and wrote it off on the Saturday.... Fortunately it was comprehensively insured (it had cost me £425 from A. & H. Car Sales on Furnival Road...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullerboY Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Hi hillsboro we had loads of reliants like that,thats if they didnt go up in flames!!!!!!!!!! A bloke near me in Rotherham has a bond bug he was astounded when I told him I drove the first in Sheffield straight of the transporter.You didnt work as a postman did you?Canyou remember Robinsons newspaper shop were the car sales room is opposite towshure Ive just been on the phone with her daughter who is now 84 and owned Waldot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 Hi hillsboro You didnt work as a postman did you? No - that would be my brother Roy (alias Cardew) who was a postman for many years at the Dodd Street office and is now in happy retirement at the posh end of town! Canyou remember Robinsons newspaper shop were the car sales room is opposite towshure Ive just been on the phone with her daughter who is now 84 and owned Waldot. I well remember the newspaper shop. In the 1950s (like most newsagents) they sold foreign stamps and I used to add to my collection there. On a corner nearby there was a chemist's shop run by the grandparents of my school pal Brian Wright. A bit further on was "Peter the Barber" - this was Peter Orio who always made a good job of my hair (when I had any). Memories... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppins Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Hillsbro, your old photos are just great, makes you want to just crawl right into them,have a look around for a few hours then return back here, sounds daft I suppose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted April 6, 2009 Author Share Posted April 6, 2009 Hillsbro, your old photos are just great, makes you want to just crawl right into them,have a look around for a few hours then return back here, sounds daft I suppose I know just what you mean, poppins! Here are two of the photos whose links somehow got deleted from post #84: http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/WadsleyLane.jpg http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/DykesHallRoad.jpg And does anyone recognise a great-grandparent in this photo of a Whit Monday gathering in Hillsborough Park in 1906? http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/Park1906.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gladys clark Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Gladys Clarks woolshop 122 holme lane next but one to Clarksons pet shop, next door to the bookies--think its know a beauty parlour anyone knitted ganzies from there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullerboY Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Hi fleetwood the radio shop belonged to Eric Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppins Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I know just what you mean, poppins! Here are two of the photos whose links somehow got deleted from post #84: http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/WadsleyLane.jpg http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/DykesHallRoad.jpg And does anyone recognise a great-grandparent in this photo of a Whit Monday gathering in Hillsborough Park in 1906? http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/twigmore/Park1906.jpg Thank you Hillsbro, I was hoping you would do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleetwood Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Hi fleetwood the radio shop belonged to Eric Nelson Thanks bullerboY - It sure was Eric Nelson. It was an exciting time to be in that business, TV was really taking hold and stereophonic records and equipment were becoming very popular. I recall a funny incident at the Nelson shop. He advertised in the 'Star' some recorder or the like that he had become the dealer for. Not too much happened with the ad until, 'Wednesday' was playing a home game and as everybody knows, people come to Hillsborough in droves from everywhere, and it seemed as though they all came to 'Nelsons' at one time . Not only did they sell out of the 'gizmo' but all the customers couldn't be accommodated and it was bedlam for awhile. Some people might say the power of advertising, all Eric could say was 'good god, I'm not going to do that again'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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