ALIPOPS Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Anyone have fond memories or characters from the dixon lane market stalls:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barwickbears Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Not the market but certainly remember trudging up it into the doorway at Woolies to smell the doughuts being made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALIPOPS Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 My mum was telling me about gettint weighed on some giant scales, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidorry Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Big Ada springs to mind when anyone mentions Dixon Lane.A truly formidable woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex3659 Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 The knights, the Perozzis, Pat and Margaret the two siters, Bradshaw still at top, Littlewood still at top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Big Ada springs to mind when anyone mentions Dixon Lane.A truly formidable woman. Not half. Nobody would mess with Big Ada. She has her own thread here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mh01 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 The knights, the Perozzis, Pat and Margaret the two siters, Bradshaw still at top, Littlewood still at top.you mean littlewood who spends most of his earnings in the bookies, even on a sunday he walks round his local booza sellin spice & stuff, owt to make a shilling that bloke, cant fault him for trying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex3659 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 you mean littlewood who spends most of his earnings in the bookies, even on a sunday he walks round his local booza sellin spice & stuff, owt to make a shilling that bloke, cant fault him for trying Yep, Keith Sidney Littlewood, complsive gambler and good grafter, he has been at it for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mh01 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 Yep, Keith Sidney Littlewood, complsive gambler and good grafter, he has been at it for years.he makes me laugh, he uses the same bookies evryday & whenever he gets a payout he say's theyve underpaid him yet he still uses the same bookies, his catchphrase in his local is " blocka cheyz a quid" or " 7 eggs for a nicka":hihi: that bloke will never change, a proper character Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillsbro Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 ... that bloke will never change, a proper character A proper character indeed, and a clever bloke. Passed his 11-plus and went to King Ted's in 1953 but he suddenly "left"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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