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John the Baptist · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:04 am **Posts:** 634

Mr I wrote:

Pardon?

Have you burped?

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:26 am

Mr I wrote:

Pardon?

I never promised you a rose garden!

John the Baptist · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:04 am **Posts:** 634

VG in Kingsley Ave was ace, used to sell loosies.

There was a VG in Oxy Road too.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:30 am

ElvisCsGlasses(TM) wrote:

There was a "VG" in Kingsley Avenue too!

That was the Grammar school sweet shop! I don't think it was always VG though.

ElvisCsGlasses(TM) wrote:

"ROCOL" in Park Road was groovy..great smell a bit like Knights!

Reduces Our Cost of Living! .... but Rocol was already the name of a special lubricant used for cutting screw threads with taps and dies. Anyone ever work in a machine shop? Remember the smell of Rocol and swarf? White water?

Jonny · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:59 am

ElvisCsGlasses(TM) wrote:

Can anyone remember the sort of "Supermarket" stores on the parades of shops on the estates??

Wynyard Road had "Broughs" which then changed to Liptons...it also had a "VG" store??

There was a "VG" in Kingsley Avenue too!

Lizzy Way shops had "Answer"

"ROCOL" in Park Road was groovy..great smell a bit like Knights!

Hintons on the fens and Murray Street, and they had a Town Centre store upstairs near the Market.

AXE, Star Discount and Presto.......

parmopooly · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:17 am

didn't there used to be a motorbike place in Roker Street, before it was knocked down for a car park? I think it moved to where the 5th Avenue is standing now (the previous building which was also knocked down)
Sweeneys?????

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:23 am

Remind me where Roker Street was. Are you sure it isn't the same bike shop I mentioned which was in South Road?

John the Baptist · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:04 am **Posts:** 634

Roker Street is behind the Gemini, between Villiers Street and Park Road, sort of opposite Barlows in Park Road.

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:52 pm

Corrigans Motor Bike Shop is where 5th Avenue is/was!!!! :grin:

Wasn't Sweeny's in Church Street????

BTW....Which 'Underground' Car park are you lot going on about and where was it????

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:54 pm

What about Waltons pet shop!!

I had many great times in there as a kid looking at the fish, budgies and rabbitts clappp

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

have you seen robin walton now an alko often seen walking about with his blue carrier with tins in from about 9am stpid

townendtimmy · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:16 pm

no6bus wrote:

have you seen robin walton now an alko often seen walking about with his blue carrier with tins in from about 9am stpid

i enjoyed the pet shop as a kid too, didnt they get done though for cruelty to animals :uhoh:

bresslaw · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:45 am **Posts:** 2411

Tan Ya Hyde --- Think I still have the jacket somewhere

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:29 pm

bresslaw wrote:

Tan Ya Hyde

Kev's had her no doubt :wink:

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

townendtimmy wrote:

no6bus wrote:

have you seen robin walton now an alko often seen walking about with his blue carrier with tins in from about 9am stpid

i enjoyed the pet shop as a kid too, didnt they get done though for cruelty to animals :uhoh:

yes after old man walton left the shop to robin he moved it to green street and got done for animal cruelty

3pint wonder · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:26 pm

can anyone remember the mynah bird in waltons and teaching it to swear? rolfl

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:33 pm

Who remembers in the Co-op building in the kids shoes section, that wooden train you would sit on which had a slider/ruler thing so you could have your feet measured?

3pint wonder · **Posted:** Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:01 pm

the windsor cafe and a pre-match ritual of corn beef slice chips and gravy

Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3115

bresslaw wrote:

Tan Ya Hyde --- Think I still have the jacket somewhere

I've still got 2 leather 'biker' jackets from there - wonderful value, I miss that shop.

Mick Tait's Head Bandage · **Posted:** Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:54 am

Remember Gentry? That gadgies clothes shop in the town centre? Wasnt it at the top of the curly wurly thing?

John the Baptist · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:04 am **Posts:** 634

Gentry was the dogs bollox shop for buying your kit from when we were teenagers.

Ocean Pacific T-shirts, cords, paisley shirts- all sorts of stuff you wouldn't be seen dead in nowadays!

Mick Tait's Head Bandage · **Posted:** Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:59 am

'tis true......i remember once buying a 'Global Hypercolour' t-shirt from Gentry that changed colour with temperature....now that was one cool garment!

John the Baptist · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:04 am **Posts:** 634

Mick Tait's Head Bandage wrote:

'tis true......i remember once buying a 'Global Hypercolour' t-shirt from Gentry that changed colour with temperature....now that was one cool garment!

The ones that showed everybody if you were sweating :laugh:

Mick Tait's Head Bandage · **Posted:** Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:02 pm

YES!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN STILL GET EM!!!! clappp

http://www.novelty-t-shirts.net/global-hypercolor/default.asp

Hawklord · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm **Posts:** 3115

ElvisCsGlasses(TM) wrote:

Is your Black Leather biker jacket that I so admire (you wear it to matches) from there Alan?? Top-Notch jacket that one!

Yes, that's one of them.

3Quid · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:11 pm **Posts:** 1791

John the Baptist wrote:

Gentry was the dogs bollox shop for buying your kit from when we were teenagers.

Ocean Pacific T-shirts, cords, paisley shirts- all sorts of stuff you wouldn't be seen dead in nowadays!

I saw some OP T-shirts on sale in Dixon's sports the other day JTB :grin:

They must be back in fashion!

I bet you had a pair of wallabies as well did you? :sweeeet:

I bought me first pair of them from Gentry.

3pint wonder · **Posted:** Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:47 pm

i,ve seen a pair of (jodpurs,dublin,s?)with marten soles in the saddlers at the botttom of the ramp

Miss Tigga · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:30 pm

John the Baptist wrote:

Dovecote was cool!

So was Bretts.

And Woolies used to be twice as big didn't it?

Yeah, Dovecote. Weren't all the toys downstairs, in the undergound bit?

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:56 pm

Remember when Clarks shoe shop was on York Road. My mum used to take me there for school shoes and they always gave you a lolly.

Its funny how you remember such shit

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:01 pm

wasn't the King John's a Barker and Stonehouse shop as well?

no6bus · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:55 pm **Posts:** 5095

yes then shoprite

3pint wonder · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:24 pm

was,nt it georges abit like primark only a bit more naff

Spender · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:20 am

Blacketts!! :grin:

grabec · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:42 am

Didn't Blacketts turn into Dovecote?
I wonder do other towns have such a lot of buildings that used to be something else.....when you've been away for a while it's a bit like those nightmares where you're walking up a familiar street and then, suddenly, everything changes.

norgepoolie · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:18 pm

When we used to go to the town on the bus me mam always said "1 and 2 halves to the Yorkshire lassie" (remember that?)

She still calls the bingo hall in York Road "The Asoldo" :shock:

To me it will always be Fairworld. :sweeeet:

Karl Marx · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:50 pm

Spectrum fashion?

Spender · **Posted:** Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:29 pm

norgepoolie wrote:

When we used to go to the town on the bus me mam always said "1 and 2 halves to the Yorkshire lassie" (remember that?)

She still calls the bingo hall in York Road "The Asoldo" :shock:

To me it will always be Fairworld. :sweeeet:

Nah it'll always be the Essoldo. Christ knows why like but there was four cinemas in Hartlepool. The Odeon, The ABC, The Gaumont and the Essoldo.

The ABC is Pools car park, the Gaumont is the Fire Station, The Odeon is rotting away and I'm not sure about the Essoldo but I think it's still there, I haven't looked in yonks.

I saw the Glenn Miller Story in the Gaumont and then me Mam took me to the Stranton to meet me Dad. Not for the first time like, I mean after work....... :grin:

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