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Can't remember a damn thing that was in the Village Trader except the sweetshop at the front entrance. God knows how i've still got all my own teeth, all my posts seem to involve sweetshops ha ha

I remember the place giving out Green Sheild Stamps.

I remember also Joans Deli (it used to be on Chadwick St but moved to the cross) There used to be a butchers there.

Radio Rentals (they had a small vhs video rental libary)
Redifusion (another tv rental shop)
The video rental shop on Pasure Road

Cellar 5 on Pasture Road

Newsagents on the bottom of Upton Road don't remember the name but it used to sell singles for 99p

Hairdressers on the corner of Roslyn Drive thats now and Indian Restaurant.

There used to be anotehr cake shop upon Hoylake Road not Malcolms but it was further up.

That hairdressers is where my fave toy shop was in the 70s and early 80s

Re. The beefeater- i was sooo jealous of the kids that got to eat in them toadstool things! But..what i cant remember what the big house looked like before them 'olde worlde' shops.
I left moreton in 1989-well, me mum did i had no choice!
Everythink seems small. Getting off the bus+ walking down orchard road home (i lived on the 'new estate')- road seemed really really long-its not!

Hey Rudebox, i lived on the new estate, moved there when they were first built

What about Rock Ferry in the 60's. Shallcross's Bike & Toy shop,the cafe next to the station bridge in Bedford Road which sold delicious ice cream, The Chinese Laundry , Exchange & Mart the antique shop whose owner was fortunate to acquire a genuine Rubens painting for a song & sell it for a large amount of cash. He always wore a sheepskin coat & looked like a spiv. He drove round in a large American 'Rambler' car. There was the coffee bar on the corner of Bedford & New Chester Roads.Bob Simister's motor bike showroom.
The shops used to extend almost to St. Pauls Rd. & to Grove Road.

Bob.

I think the toy shop become a Toy Master shop. The chain is still going.

funny you should say that coz we rarely ventured past where iceland is now. That is prob why i remembered the 'argos' type shop -out me comfort zone. Lol

I remember there being a couple of housefires on the New Estate. The houses got boarded up and you could see the burn marks on the brick work. I remember walking past them on my way too Eastway Nursey.

same here! Witley ave
Me brains ticking now...

One in lyons close and another witley ave-a nurse and 2 kids-ex hubby put sumfink lit thru the letterbox.

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Lol. Off topic. Soz

you sure?

Haha. Nooo, am ok. These house fires-same ones i remember?

Yeah I think they are the same house fires. It would of been the early 80s.