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[Olliebeak]

I used to get the No.6 from there back to Hard Lane as well, tonkatoy - but probably a good 10yrs or so earlier than you did . I left Windle Hall Drive in 1969 aged 18.

I was allowed to be out until 10.30 - so had to be on the 20 past 10 bus .................. or face being grounded for a week .


The Supermarket and bus stops were very handy just there. I got sent on a Saturday afternoon, along with my younger sister, to get the groceries from there - then we had to struggle home on the bus with them. I can't even remember what kind of bags we used for the shopping - were there plastic carrier bags then . I've a feeling that we still got the brown paper carriers with string handles . Mum probably still had a couple of old-fashioned 'shopping bags' and perhaps even a shopping basket!

I've just had a mental flashback - remember the 'string bags'. They seemed to expand forever but the handles cut into your fingers if you put too much heavy stuff in them - ouch!

Edited by Olliebeak, 29 March 2012 - 06:24 AM.

[tonkatoy1]

remember the top shop chippy lol wait forever for your chips, hardly any in the packet and taking your own plate, I lived on Furness Avenue the house right near the garages, with the big playing field at the back. I looked it up on google earth still hasnt changed, my adoptive mum had extentions built on it and god knows what else, then moved to billinge hmm could never get my head around that one, she moved to billinge couple years later she passed away.

[tessmop]

Hi Ollie,I remember the string bags,they would end up all shapes and sizes depending on what you put in them,tins were a nightmare,black and blue legs as well as sore fingers,also remember the hard plastic shopping bag that came out in the mid fifties and the gondola baskets of the early sixties,I used to own all three at one time.

[michael beck]

hi all i worked for lennons age 16 1n 1977 started in bebington then heswall morton mold frodsom as a buchter and most stores in liverpool and new most of main men that made it a good place to work

[tessmop]

Hi Michael Beck,keep posting this is a great site,lots of nostalgia.

[Dicky D]

Lennons head office was on Corporation Street which later becam St. Helens Glass head office now demolished and replaced by Helena Housing and Corporation offices.
One of the Lennons, don't know which one, used to park his Rolls outside on the forcourt and one day was stolen. Later in the day a phone call to Lennos asked him for a ransom in return for the Rolls. I can't remember the outcome. It was in all of the papers at the time. Maybe some one else remembers it?

[michael beck]

it was keth dorson car what colour was it

[Phyll]

Hi Michael, to Connect. As Tessmop said, it's a great site, lots to see and full of nostalgia.

[michael beck]

hi to you to hope you are well

[Nanny Ogg]

One thing we used to get at Lennons and I've never seen anywhere else is nut yoghourt. Anyone remember it? Go on, tell me there's still somewhere you can get it.

[Olliebeak]

Being a love of 'nutty things', I can remember buying Hazlenut Yoghurt around 1967. It was absolutely foul and put me right off yoghurt for quite a few years

You can still get it - think Asda have it in stock. I think this is the Extra Special version - oops that link didn't work, but it is there on the shelves.

http://www.mysuperma...ogurt_150g.html

Edited by Olliebeak, 16 May 2012 - 07:00 AM.