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[Vanwall]

Anyone remember Ted Kinders Chippie on the corner of Lewis St/Napier St, his chips were among the best I have ever tasted.

[Dave D]

Best chippie was dicky glovers sit down in the back room fish chips mushy peas bread& butter endin with a good cuppa drooling now just thinking about it

[Vanwall]

Where was Dickie Glovers?

[eddiedunc]

Corporation St. where the Bus station is now

[Alan]

Then he's right. That chippie, I'd forgotten the name, was as good as they get. Do they still do sit-down chippies in St Helens? I remember the Bears Paw (Burrs Porr), Blaylocks and another belter near the top of North Road on the right hand side as you went out of town

[Dave D]

That one on north road was ideal when you came out of chessies [EXCHANGE VAULTS ] cooper st. you had to callin after a load of ale made the walk home all the better.

[Olliebeak]

What was the name of the chippie at the side of Oxley's. The had a takeout counter downstairs and a sit-in cafe upstairs. The guy on the till had one hand and a 'hook' on the other arm. Was that place called 'Spaven's'?

[ellie ellins]

I think that was Blaylock's. Did they have a dumb waiter? What was Spaven's? It was a name I heard banded about but never knew what they did!

You can still sit down and have Fish and Chips in the Chipmunk in Westfield Street.

Do you remember Everson's cafe? They had a dumb waiter! I was obsessed with them ha! ha!

[splus]

I remember Eversons. They made the best vanilla slices. I used to go there in my lunchbreak from work, back in the dim and distant past when I worked at Pilks.

[D S]

I liked 2 chippys one on westfield st and one just on corner of raglan street. Seddons and skidmores

[Alan]

Wasn't Spavens (or Spavins) a fishmonger?

[eddiedunc]

ellie ellins, on Mar 5 2006, 09:58 PM, said:

I think that was Blaylock's. Did they have a dumb waiter? What was Spaven's? It was a name I heard banded about but never knew what they did!

Definitely wasn't Blaylocks. That was on the corner of King St and Ormskirk St opposite the Bear's Paw (Now the Ice Bar)
Spavens was a fish mongers

Edited by eddiedunc, 06 March 2006 - 12:01 PM.

[Mr.Yat]

eddiedunc, on Mar 6 2006, 12:01 PM, said:

Definitely wasn't Blaylocks. That was on the corner of King St and Ormskirk St opposite the Bear's Paw (Now the Ice Bar)
Spavens was a fish mongers

Eddie I though that Blaylocks (the orginal where you had to walk through the shop to sit down in the back) was where the doctors now is close to Keyfoto. It was my favourite chippy as a kid ... split and fish with lashings of salt and vinegar washed down by a bottle of Vimto

[Alan]

My memory of fifty odd years ago is that it was opposite the Burrs Porr

[Mr.Yat]

Alan, on Mar 6 2006, 01:12 PM, said:

My memory of fifty odd years ago is that it was opposite the Burrs Porr

Any old town centre maps???