Danny Ocean
Well-known member
Easywear, Village Video, JR Taylors, Burtons bakers shops, KwikSave
Brought back memories, I guess you remember Ian Marshall, Derek Dowell, Eric Hall, Bernard Bradley, Alf Waters, Denise Hurst, Pauline Radley. Loads more of course, but as that was around 60 years ago………Would have been 1964 at Layton, I think the managers name was Nick but could be wrong.
Good grief….my Dad used to get his suits ( bespoke) from Andrew Vass….remember going there and laughing( discreetly) at how pompous it was….talk about pins and needles….but in fairness that was well before the days of mass production from Vietnam,Bangladesh,Cambodia and goodness knows where else.Anyone bought clothing recently that was made here..sadly I think not.Catterall and Swarbrick brewery on Talbot Road
Andrew Vass Mens outfitters
Diana Warren —-ditto——
C & A department store
Lewis’s department store
The Lemon Tree nightclub
Yates‘s Wine Bar
Tivoli cinema
etc etc too many to mention!
And my dad!Good grief….my Dad used to get his suits ( bespoke) from Andrew Vass….remember going there and laughing( discreetly) at how pompous it was….talk about pins and needles….but in fairness that was well before the days of mass production from Vietnam,Bangladesh,Cambodia and goodness knows where else.Anyone bought clothing recently that was made here..sadly I think not.
Yep it was one on it’s own , a real shame .A sad loss. That's where I used to buy my car streamers for play-off finals and the LDVs.
Streets had cafes in Victoria Road, Cleveleys, and near The Squirrel. Better quality by far than what followed, IMO.Streets bakery.
1st leisure.
Royal Pavilion - where the Crazy Scots Bar is nowWaller & Hartley.
Lots of Cinemas
Regent, Hippodrome, Princess, Tatler, Ritz, Odeon, King Edward, Oxford, Royal Oak. Clifton Palace....
Must be some I've forgotten?
Palladium, Rendezvous, Tivoli, Dominion (Bispham), and not forgetting the various cinemas in other parts of the Fylde.Waller & Hartley.
Lots of Cinemas
Regent, Hippodrome, Princess, Tatler, Ritz, Odeon, King Edward, Oxford, Royal Oak. Clifton Palace....
Must be some I've forgotten?
And the abattoir just behind it.Bass Brewery on the corner of Talbot Rd/Devonshire Rd.
Vernon Humpage shoes on Church St.
Used to work at Streets Bakery on Bristol Ave as an apprentice maintenance fitter & me & my boss work go to a long gone Tattersal's butcher's in Bispham Village for our pies rather than stomach one of Streets. Don't think the large spoon for stirring the meat & potato had ever been washedStreets had cafes in Victoria Road, Cleveleys, and near The Squirrel. Better quality by far than what followed, IMO.
He had the first private number plate I think I saw, something like 67TEA on a dark coloured Jensen Interceptor.Ismail tea.
Bloody Somali’s fighting with Lawrence of Arabia in ww1 then coming over ere putting adverts on the scratching shed roof, send em back!
If I slept with the window open, in the morning I wake to the smell of the abattoir washed down with a whiff of C&S brewery polished off with some biscuit aromas. The rock factory would provide the smells for elevensees.And the abattoir just behind it.
Remember a Cleveleys Estate agent, had something to do with WBA in 80's/90's, lived on Hardhorn Rd where all the rouges live.UCP tripe shop and cafe.
Comet electrical store.
Anyone remember H.D Askew estate agents.
Another Fylde business rogue who ended up in prison for fraud.
My old neighbor nice bloke.Rashid Gibrail
I bet they are tired .TI Chiswick squires gate lane. Exhaust place.
But does it still sell chicken? Abingdon Street Market isn't a market. So I wouldn't trust the name of any shop on Abingdon Street.Carleys
Boston Man
Redmans
Mac Fisheries
Ron Reddies
Although the Chicken BBQ Abingdon Street is still there
Still preferable to the smell you'd awake to if you slept with the window shut.If I slept with the window open, in the morning I wake to the smell of the abattoir washed down with a whiff of C&S brewery polished off with some biscuit aromas. The rock factory would provide the smells for elevensees.
It was like an inbuilt diet.
Yes, It's been there as long as i can remember. Lovely with a good spoonfull of MayonnaiseBut does it still sell chicken? Abingdon Street Market isn't a market. So I wouldn't trust the name of any shop on Abingdon Street.
Cocker St baths, Derby baths, and the one down South Shore i never went to, all goneGreen Shield Stamps
Derby Street Baths (not a company as such)
The one in South Shore was the Lido BathsCocker St baths, Derby baths, and the one down South Shore i never went to, all gone
Apollo 2000 - like a curry’s or CometApollo *something*, where Sainsbury’s garage is now. By the Mecca bingo. Random location that didn’t last long.
Fine fare? Now gonna be a hotel/tram depot. Exactly the combo I look for when booking a holiday hotel.
I actually saw my first female pubic hairs at Derby Baths. She was a horse and no wonder they closed it.Cocker St baths, Derby baths, and the one down South Shore i never went to, all gone
Road Wiz.Devvy Rd abbotoir. Actually on Abbotoir St, which was renamed, unsurprisingly, when they built houses on the site. Next door to C&S brewery, also gone, opposite from Devvy Rd hospital, also gone. Bit of a pattern really.
Was that not the old Lewiss’
ICI Thornton a big employer back in its day.