Hillsborough Shops Of The Past

[harvey19]

Don't forget the chip shops at the bottom and half way up Dykes Hall Road.

[hillsbro]

Don't forget the chip shops at the bottom and half way up Dykes Hall Road.

Yes indeed - Mrs Agnes Patterson kept the chippy at No 1 Dykes Hall Road (fish 8d, fishcake 3d., chips 3d in 1958...). Agnes retired in 1969 and the shop became F.H. Bramley's opticians. The other chippy was at No 100 opposite the Castle Inn and was kept by a Mr Rodgers until Yen Li took it over in c. 1971.

[johncocker]

loving these posts hillsbro ,you're bringing back my youth for me.you've got an amazing memory ...or are you time lord?

[hillsbro]

loving these posts hillsbro ,you're bringing back my youth for me.you've got an amazing memory ...or are you time lord?

Well, Mrs hillsbro says it's a sign you're getting old when you can clearly remember things from 50+ years ago but can't remember what you had for your dinner..

 

You mentioned Lunn's chippy in Holme Lane. Herbert Lunn (1906-1969) was known as "Chinny" Lunn because of his fine double chin (maybe it was the fish & chip diet.). Other local chippies were Gordon Booth's in Taplin Road, with the delicious parsley-flavoured fishcakes (now the Taplin Chippy) and the one in Middlewood Road.-.handy for the Kinema.-.run by Frank and Kathleen Barrow, who lived in the Regent Court flats. The Jolly Frier opened in c. 1965 where Sorsby's sweet shop had been at 79 Middlewood Road - this is also still there, as is the one on the corner of Far Lane and Dykes Hall Road.

 

With all these chippies around, it's no wonder we all developed a taste for high-calorie, cholesterol-laden food..

[harvey19]

It seems to me that several of us on this thread must have been knocking around Hillsborough at the same time, maybe gone to school together.

[hillsbro]

It seems to me that several of us on this thread must have been knocking around Hillsborough at the same time, maybe gone to school together.

I went to Malin Bridge - Infants 1953-55 (Miss Birch, Miss Bolsover and Miss Garrison) and Juniors 1955-59 (Mrs Potter and Mr Hawley - here we all are in a 1959 photo - I'm at the left-hand end of the second row back).

 

It occurred to me that the various butcher's shops in Hillsborough haven't been mentioned in the thread (apart from Cliff Kelsey's pork butcher's - see post #17). I well remember Smith's butchers on the corner of Roselle Street; my mum would send me there every week for the Sunday joint "a piece of beef about seven shillings" (those were the days..). More often than not I would come home with a nice piece of "short rump" - which my dad would refer to as "short arse".. There was also Staniland's on the same side, just past Dykes Hall Road - John Staniland was a very nice bloke; he sold out to H.C. Wray's in c. 1964 and moved to Taunton in Somerset where he died in 1974. His wife moved back to Loxley with their Downs-Syndrome son Gerald; I bumped into them at Malin Bridge not long after the move. Denton's pork butchers (next to Wigfall's) made the best pork sandwiches until the late Sandor Béres opened his chain of pork butcher's shops in the Hillsborough area. There was also Talbot's further up, next to the Co-Op, and of course Funk's pork butchers across the road which is still there and makes the best sausages.

 

I'm getting hungry.....

[beachec]

Not had chance to read the full thread, but Edleys sweet shop at the bottom of Dykes Hall road, with the Kit Kat dispensers and Twix machine outside. And also can anyone remember the Umberella Barbeque at the bottom of Minto road where the social services place is now and the chippy at the bottom of Hawksley Avenue. If anyone has got any old pictures point them out to us Cheers.

 

I remember crossing Bradfield Rd to get to the chip shop when I was a kid, and this mid aged woman walked in front of this lorry, it swerved and landed on its side. When she got in the chipshop the old lady in the chippy asked what had happened and she said "Kids running accross the road" :-)

[johncocker]

I went to Malin Bridge - Infants 1953-55 (Miss Birch, Miss Bolsover and Miss Garrison) and Juniors 1955-59 (Mrs Potter and Mr Hawley - here we all are in a 1959 photo - I'm at the left-hand end of the second row back).

 

It occurred to me that the various butcher's shops in Hillsborough haven't been mentioned in the thread (apart from Cliff Kelsey's pork butcher's - see post #17). I well remember Smith's butchers on the corner of Roselle Street; my mum would send me there every week for the Sunday joint "a piece of beef about seven shillings" (those were the days..). More often than not I would come home with a nice piece of "short rump" - which my dad would refer to as "short arse".. There was also Staniland's on the same side, just past Dykes Hall Road - John Staniland was a very nice bloke; he sold out to H.C. Wray's in c. 1964 and moved to Taunton in Somerset where he died in 1974. His wife moved back to Loxley with their Downs-Syndrome son Gerald; I bumped into them at Malin Bridge not long after the move. Denton's pork butchers (next to Wigfall's) made the best pork sandwiches until the late Sandor Béres opened his chain of pork butcher's shops in the Hillsborough area. There was also Talbot's further up, next to the Co-Op, and of course Funk's pork butchers across the road which is still there and makes the best sausages.

 

I'm getting hungry.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think the 2nd and 3rd from the left back row were in my class at one time .the girl 3rd along 2nd row from back I feel I know her, is her name carter ?I can't quite place you hillsbro ,we must have been there the same time I went from there to wisewood 1959 to 1963 ..btw why have all the boys got ears like chimps, did we eat alot of bananas back then or what?the young bloke in the white shirt back row looks like the FA cup

[hillsbro]

Not had chance to read the full thread, but Edleys sweet shop at the bottom of Dykes Hall road, with the Kit Kat dispensers and Twix machine outside. And also can anyone remember the Umberella Barbeque at the bottom of Minto road...

 

I don't remember the Umbrella barbecue but Edleys sweet shop was well known; they used to sell some of the more "specialised" products of Swiss firms such as Suchard, Tobler and Lindt. Oswald Edley lived at Worrall - he retired in the mid-1970s and sold the business to Louis Colletta; it then became "Colletta's Sweet Centre".

 

...If anyone has got any old pictures point them out to us Cheers.

Here are two 1960s photos showing the bottom of Dykes Hall Road, and another one a little further down.

[johncocker]

any Idea what the women are queueing for?