the corned beef slice and gravy in the windsor was mint

anyone no the name of the cafe somewhere down church street, used to go up a few steps to get in, it was just like going into someone's house, used to go there as a kid with my mother , any idea's

the missus now works in what was the windsor

thats not the one that used to be at the bottom of scarborough street opposite reynolds garage is it

it was owned by the currys ..

Concur

Bianco's was another i remember ! and what about .The Yorkshire lassie !!

Was the Three Arches the Greek Restaurant in Church Street

thats the place, they used to do a mushy pea dip if i rember right

Bamboo Terrace, wasnt it opposite The Clansman. Used to go there after the match in the 80's before all day opening to kill the time between match finishing and 530pm opening, matches finished at 1740 them days not 1700 like now. Others were Mariners fish shop in Middleton Grange, or Krimos in York Road or a game of pool in the Boilermakers with the shutters down anxiously waiting for the footy mail. HAPPY DAYS!!

What's The Windsor now like?

Whatever they were called and wherever they were, they all had one thing in common.
The food was absolute shite!
Which I guess is where the custom of going there after the pub came from (Windsor excepted for obvious reasons).
A bit like the culinary equivalent of beer goggles.

The Wimpy, does that count

What about Binns Cafe, not a 'eating house' as such I suppose, but always packed

the chippy in the shopping centre was richmonds(bobby)and can anyone remember the toby jug,which is now a florists(on the corner of lister street)

The chippy in the shopping centre was Stan's when I was a kid.

It was one of the very few places in the town where you could go and see a real foreigner like what you saw on the telly.

re richmonds was the first owner when the shopping centre opened

I wasn't even born until 1983!

Give over!!!

Council offices.

As you mentioned CB's there Mutters,it's reminded me of a question I meant to ask. Namely do they still work/are they still used? The reason I ask, is that a bloke has been standing on and off for years on the roundabout above the A19, the one that leads up to what was Billingham Motors, with a CB radio in his hand, presumably trying to communicate with the Lorry Drivers passing below him. Yesterday I noticed him there, but with no sign of the building brick sized CB radio. Do you think he's just reverted to semaphore, or has he upgraded his technology?

Whilst its not in Hartlepool, it is in the 70s. Me dad used to take me and me sister to the Royal Bengal in Stockton.

Once I got ice cream for afters, and asked the waiter if I could have monkey's blood on it. I wasn't aware at the time but the asian waiter was very offended as he didn't know what I meant. Luckily me dad explained that I wasn't being racist and all I wanted was raspberry sauce.

The smell from The Green cafe was to die for.

Off the subject a little can anyone remember the green cabin outside the old seaton baths and those hot little pork pies.

I can yes, 'picnic pies' they were called and you could either have scalding hot bovril or pissy dilute orange with them, 'cos tea was for gimmers.

Did you ever have the 50-50 choice Kev of picnic pies or bus fare home as we did and the pies won every time.

Every time, that trek across the Steelworks bridge on a Sunday dinnertime was about 47 miles long. My sister always used to flirt with lads and get a clip for being late for Sunday dinner.

Can anyone remember the Waverley Cafe, used to be next to Binns before Middleton Grange was built?? Where the Claggy Mat was built? Their speciality was curried fish. Me mother used to take me there once a week. I thought it was the ultimate in sophistication.

Well you didn't walk them off...

I'm trying to run them off now you cheeky blighter.

You're all missing the obvious. Surely the only eatery worthy of the name was the Brunswick.

it certainly was when mervyn had it

The steelworks bridge, first time we walked over it aged about 7....steam shot through the dodgy wooden planks and one of the lads said it's poison gas..... did we leg it . Why was it then that when you went out as a pack of 'unsupervised' 7 year olds for the day, one of the young uns always shit themselves....?

Never mind Snowy, you've grown out of it now, haven't you?

nope....