Companies in Blackpool that are no more

[Tangerine10]

Fashion:
Master Dee
Clobber
Dames

Music
Sinfonia (Sandy was a legend in a Roy Cropper sort of way).
Ray's Melody Inn -> Grafitti
Edwin P. Lee's

Wild cards:
Angler's Den
Hills -> Bins
Bill's Dart Centre

Sorry, getting carried away ...

 

[Malced]

Happy times working a summer in a van on the beach for them '72/73

I worked there for maybe three summers around 82-84.
I worked on the vans selling. I also was a general dogs body on rainy days. Cleaned the factory. Helped make the ice cream.
Had an amazing time working there. Loved every minute.
The Naventi sisters had a Julio Iglesias album playing on a continuous loop all day every day.

 

[TangerineBayern]

C & A's

Still got C&A in Germany, never understood them pulling out of the UK

 

[TangerineBayern]

Woolworths
Debenhams
Melody House (l know!)

 

[Lancasterchelsea]

BLUE ROOM

 

[Lancasterchelsea]

deck chairs

 

[TangerineBayern]

deck chairs

Still there on the prom but not as many these days!

 

[Fatboy]

Wasn't it Daintee?

I can’t remember , but you know who i mean !

 

[Micky Walsh]

Fine Fare. Not a company but alway remember the billboard for Mickeys of Blackpool.

 

[Trammo]

UCP basement cafe in Bank Hey St. Very reasonably priced basic meals. Steak n kidney pudding and chips was my favourite.They had several branches in the North West.

 

[Martonmosser]

Pancake House on the Pleasure Beach

 

[Martonmosser]

Anyone remember Duple coaches?

Still partly based round the back of my business but called Dennis Eagle now. Very busy company making dustbin wagons for the UK and for export all over the world

 

[Malced]

Has anyone mentioned Goldbergs? It was a department store in the Houndshill.

There was also a Benetton.

 

[Matesrates]

Debenhams

 

[seasider3]

Blimey, I was manager of Layton when it opened, I worked in all their branches on the Fylde coast at one time or another.

Would have been 1964 at Layton, I think the managers name was Nick but could be wrong.

 

[1966_and_all_that]

Wasn't it Daintee?

Yes it was. My Mum was there briefly when she left school.

 

[Lewis_Winthorpe]

Gay Gordon’s hairdresser, Layton.

Big Blackpool fan is Gordon and a top bloke to boot

 

[TangerineBayern]

South Shore Market

 

[TangerineBayern]

Zara
Moss Brothers

 

[Steamgun]

Top Rank-Mecca
Cheswick & Wright
Long Playing Record Library

 

[Since1967]

My uncle his father and my cousin all worked at duple, used to go to their Christmas do with my aunt and uncle

 

[Since1967]

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This was a Duple Christmas do probably 1950's. My grandfather worked there and I think was social secretary

 

[Martonmosser]

South Shore Market

Still there isn’t it?

 

[Southend tangerine]

Zara
Moss Brothers

Where was Zara?

 

[Sooty59]

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Yeah I’d forgotten it was originally called Burlinghams. Apparently that was why there was a big roundabout on Vicarage lane/ Rectory road. I remember seeing bare chassis being road tested as a kid who grew up a stones throw from there.

 

[TangerineBayern]

Still there isn’t it?

Think it still might be called that but it’s a third of the size and more like a mini market selling out of date stuff.

 

[Tangerine10]

Cousin learned his trade as an upholsterer at Duple.
He managed to complete his apprenticeship just before it closed.
Continued his career at Roll-Royce-Bently, so must have got a good start at Duple.

 

[Sooty59]

Eaves’s brick works just past Burtons Biscuits on the LHS before the Welcome on the opposite side.

 

[Costero Poderoso]

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none of them

 

[Goose]

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My mum used to do a couple of evening shifts there in the early 70’s. I remember going with my dad to drop her off when I was a toddler. They made kitchenwear, a lot of it is now vintage stuff and collectable. She got a lovely egg slicer as a bonus one year. I got a better tune out of that than TC ever could !

Thanks, so many have disappeared since I was a kid.

 

[todayistheday]

TI Chiswick squires gate lane. Exhaust place.

 

[Lewis_Winthorpe]

Some of these may have been mentioned already

Beatties
Concept Man
Fosters
Alan Heywoods
Mosaic
What Everyone Wants
American Pancake House
Victim clothing
Stolen From Ivor
Guys & Dolls (Talbot Road)
Pendles (Kickers shop on Central Drive. Was very popular)

 

[Trammo]

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Guy in the kilt appears to be popular with the ladies.

 

[Matesrates]

Would have been 1964 at Layton, I think the managers name was Nick but could be wrong.

That’s me

 

[Tower Power]

Cassidy Toys
Cherry Tree Gardens

 

[Fatboy]

TI Chiswick squires gate lane. Exhaust place.

Formerly Chiswick & Wright !

 

[Levi501]

The little Offy round the corner from where I used to live. It was a massive company, at one time employing er, as many as 2 people, alas it is no more.

 

[Bluecabinboy]

Mac Fisheries

 

[TangerineBayern]

Where was Zara?

If memory serves me right it wasn’t in Hounds Hill but possibly on Church Street? It didn’t last long though!

 

[1966_and_all_that]

South Shore Market

Has that gone? Waterloo Rd market?

 

[1966_and_all_that]

The Swallow Side Car Co.

 

[TangerineBayern]

Has that gone? Waterloo Rd market?

Not sure whether it’s called that now but it’s definitely not the same place as l went in there a couple of months ago and it’s a 3rd of the size.

 

[Southend tangerine]

If memory serves me right it wasn’t in Hounds Hill but possibly on Church Street? It didn’t last long though!

Don’t remember it at all but not doubting you!

 

[Southend tangerine]

Hearing rumours New Look is on the brink

 

[Malced]

Still there isn’t it?

Unfortunately South Shore is still there.

 

[Malced]

TI Chiswick squires gate lane. Exhaust place.

Shame that’s gone. I’m fuming.

 

[todayistheday]

Tiberius and Paris Casino's.

 

[1966_and_all_that]

Shame that’s gone. I’m fuming.

Chiswick & Wright in my day.

 

[TangerineBayern]

Don’t remember it at all but not doubting you!

Shame that’s gone. I’m fuming.

There were many engineering and other companies on the Squires Gate Lane Trading Estate that employed thousands in the 60s / 70s

 

[Malced]

There were many engineering and other companies on the Squires Gate Lane Trading Estate that employed thousands in the 60s / 70s

Including ICI