Wingnut Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Do you mean Victor Mclaglen Obs? He played Squire "Red" Donaghue. Incidentally,I baught me first yoyo and oola roop from Leslies when they were all the rage. Never lost it with the yoyo, I could do two at once. Not too bad with an oola roop either. I could start it around me waist, get it down to me ankles, and back up to me neck again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Durnim Posted February 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Thanks Wingnut for the name of 'Leslies' My favourite toys shops were Harts, next to the Odeon, Burgess, especially their star burst orange and black bags and they also used to be a toy shop at the top end of Scotland Rd, towards Horsemarket St. I was also a member of the Odeon Saturday Club when the Odeon was in its Hay-Day and you cuold sneak in through the side door from Scotland Rd, opposite the Brittania Pub. They should have never closed the Odeon, it should have had a preservation order placed on it as a listed building, but what do planners know? an icon of a building replaced with a plastic pub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 brother is looking for any pictures of Warrington at the moment. he has a sort of quiz thingy going on face book. put a pic up and then try to figure out where it is in Warrington. he has just been loaned several books about old Warrington with pictures going back to the late 1800's. one shows the bridge over the mersey just after it was built. it is quite funny really as it shows about thirty people standing about with two trams full of people parked in the middle along with two steam rollers. it was a loading test of the bridge to check the deflection under a 95 ton load. would be a lot of wet people if it had failed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrdy Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 he has a sort of quiz thingy going on face book. put a pic up and then try to figure out where it is in Warrington. Got a link for that Sid? Here's one for them- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 NB, NO health warnings on the advertising! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 My guess is that it was opposite a cinema. Rule Britannia. Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrdy Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 My guess is that it was opposite a cinema. Wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LymmParent Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Oooooh, I like this thread. I am too young to remember any of those things. Happy days, as Harry always says! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sha Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Byrdy, was it the newsagents/tobacconists on lower Bridge St between the Royal Oak and the Packet House? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 its a group called warrington photos warrington born on facebook. would post the link but only signed up to facebook yesterday and not got myself sorted out on it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrdy Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Byrdy, was it the newsagents/tobacconists on lower Bridge St between the Royal Oak and the Packet House? Wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 I was thinking of Rutters in Scotland road. Think the shop in question was not far from a small cinema and opposite more or less to what I shall disguise as WH. Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Me Mam said, Somewhere opposite Cunninghams Brewery on Winwick Road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrdy Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Me Mam said,Somewhere opposite Cunninghams Brewery on Winwick Road. Wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Latchford village on the corner where the newer Burgess's newsagents now stands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy51 Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Wasn't there a toy shop called Prince's,sure it was next to Ward's sports shop in Rylands st, there was also White's sports shop in Sankey st. Anyone remember the Beachcomber cafe in Winwick st opposite Jack Frodsham's & when there was another bus stop in Winwick st where a lot of out of town buses came & went .Before all this Arriva nonsense there used to be buses all done up in their own liveries...Ribble, Lancashire United,North Western,Crosville,Salford City,Wigan ,Leigh,St Helens & i think some i can't remember. BTW was Maggie Riley the girl in black? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Tom Princes in Sankey street (good class toys, meccanos; hornby trains). They also later had a little shop in nearby Bold street. Remember the bus shed in Mersey street. Magic sneaking in there to find the number you hadn't got. PF Wards in Bridge street - lovely sports shop. They used to post the Warrington team on a Wednesday night which attracted many viewers in those boring days. Levi richardsons music shop opposite - the atmosphere in there was something special which Dawsons never achieved. Happy days (albeit long ago) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 BTW was Maggie Riley the girl in black? Maggie Ireland. I think. Yes it was Maggie Ireland. Sadly she has since passed away. Last I heard she fancied hersef as a child of the sixties. Or maybe in at the start of the Goth movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrdy Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Wingnut said- Latchford village on the corner where the newer Burgess's newsagents now stands? Very,very close Wingy but no cigar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 I said that because I could see the sign "Burgess Tobaconist" in the window of your photo Byrdy. How about a binanna then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrdy Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 How about a binanna then? Get it right & you can have both a bin & anna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 I couldn't settle. And you made me an offer I couldn't refuse. So I jumped on me bike and made haste to Latchford village. I was looking for a clue that could still possibly be there. Over the swing bridge past the chippy on Knutsford road. I stopped outside the Railway pub. And there it was on the opposite side of the road. A row of terraced houses called Osborne Terrace. The plaque which says Osborne Terrace is fully plastered over. But the six Terraced houses that are next to it still have the brickwork showing. And each one of the Terraces has that same stone plaque with a curly pattern on it that is in the original photograph. I know I'm right, I can feel it in me watter. So I say Osborne Terrace Latchford. Reet then, where's me binanna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrdy Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 So I say Osborne Terrace Latchford. CORRECT!!! That's my Great Grandfather stood in the doorway of his 1st. newsagent shop,in 1899.You can have your prize anytime,just go to the shop & pick it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 WooHoooo Frying tonight. Oooh, or maybe not. You must be well pleased with that photo byrdy. I would be if it was mine. Did you say you belonged to a Local Historical society? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrdy Posted February 6, 2010 Report Share Posted February 6, 2010 Did you say you belonged to a Local Historical society? Yes,Grappenhall History Group,& contacts with the Latchford History Group.I love all local history of the Warrington area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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