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HI only joined last night but remember all the shops that have been sent in .Does any body remember the chipy on landsdown road,the name billingtons.

I remember a newsagents on Landsdown Rd near the bottom the road it was like a corner house you would go into, anyone remember when it closed? Also remember Adamsons butchers,the hairdressers and pet parlour halfway down Landsdown.

I remember Anne's Hairdressers - had my hair cut (against my will) many times in there. Remember Powell Street at the back?

I remember Laird St very well, I was born in no. 13 and my mother lived there nearly 60 years until she died in 1998. Anyone remember the sweet shop on the corner of Brill St. before it became a tool hire shop. What about the chippy opposite the corner of Brassey St and Brill St where the frier was heated by coke and fish and chips cost a wholme shilling!

hi dad xxx

I REMEMBER A BARBERS SHOP ON BRASSEY STREET (CALLED HARRYS)IF YOU WERE TO SMALL FOR THE CHAIR HE WOULD PUT A PEICE OF WOOD TOSIT ON.

HI MRS HOW R U DADDY

I live in brill street.. And dont remember the sweet shop far too young to remember the shop on the top has also been a cafe... There was a butchers at the bottom end of brill street on the corner in brassey street im so desperate to find a photo graph of it.. There was also a news agents on brassey street it was on the corner of bray.. Also as well harry hairs shop used to be in the derelict building opposite the fish and chip shop which is still there and the same guy still runs it george.. The building that occupied the hair dressers had a cafe next door also when the hair dressers closed down it turned into a second hand shop for a while before being closed competely and let derelict for so long they have fixed it up abit know and turning it into flats but its a slow process cause the owner had a warning fix it up or get it demolished buy the council.. This building apparantly used to be a printers and used to be a half way weighbridge the bridge is still visible but has been concreated over abit to park a car..

I REMEMBER THE PRINTERS THERE WAS A CLUB AT THE BOTTOM OF (BRASSEY STREET) CALLED (THE CAVINDISH CENTRE)ME AND THREE OF US USED TO PLAY FOOTBALL AND BABMINGTONIN THERE.

I know the old cavendish building, also the little hut building opposite where I used to box.

the building you are talking about was i think for the (cavendish street school)girls for there dinner classers
my nan was a dinner lady in there.also as you said a boxing club.

As i went to cavendish girls school i had my dinners in the long tin huts cold in the winter. Have been told years before cavendish school had them they where used for free dinners in the summer hols for familys on low income ?

Has the hut gone now? Couldn't tell how old it was years ago because it must have had at least 50 coats of paint on those bricks, though a house a few yards up the road on the same side of the hut was the victim of a bombing during the war, from the photo I saw the crater was quite big.

don't know if they still there since found out they not huts for summer holiday dinners ,been told they by seadog pub ? will try to find out. i know it was used for a boxing club coz i know someone who went there .

my three sisters went to the cavendish school in the late (seventies) one hut is still there .