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Re: Shops gone by
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8th Jan 2019 10:16pm
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It was Bookland that was on Wallasey Road, I think. My Granddad used to take me to the playground up the little road that was behind the Manweb showroom, where the Cherry Tree precinct is now. In the Bata shoe shop - on Liscard road I think? - there was an x-ray machine; you could look at the bones in your feet through an eyepiece. Those were the days, eh?!* I think that shop also had those whizzy pots on wires that your money was put in, then the change was whizzed back to the counter. I had my first Saturday job in Liscard Co-op, 1968-ish, back of the ground floor, in pharmacy and cosmetics. I had a love/hate relationship with the Bronnley lemon soaps - they used to make me sneeze. On my breaks I discovered the sheer delight of warm eccles cakes from the canteen/cafe - mmm! Not so mmm were the shocks I used to get off the metal lockers when removing my nylon overall. Ouch. I also remember buying school dress fabric from Kay Macs, diagonally opposite to where HSBC is now, at 2/11 a yard. Gad, I feel old now...!
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Re: Shops gone by
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15th Jan 2019 12:54am
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Yep, remember them in Clarkes shoe shops. Do you glow in the dark Greenwood ? It seemed that shoes always cost £29.11d for leather shoes.The prices never changed for years.
£29.11d. .. just under £1.50 in todays money
Last edited by granny; 15th Jan 2019 12:55am.
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Re: Shops gone by
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15th Jan 2019 7:06am
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Yep, remember them in Clarkes shoe shops. Do you glow in the dark Greenwood ? It seemed that shoes always cost £29.11d for leather shoes.The prices never changed for years.
£29.11d. .. just under £1.50 in todays money
Typo 29/11 or 29s-11d
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