Bloomin' heck! I remember Bibby & Perkins and Hyman Jacobs too! My brother got his school uniform at Bibby & Perkins, I think. He went to Birkenhead Institute and my other one went to Park High.
Thanks, Bert. What year is that directory? I've just remembered another shop on that block between Charing Cross & Vincent St. Hubbard & Martins, bread & cake shop. Not in that directory, so must be earlier than 1940
Is Stubbs the Bakers still in Grange Road West? At the top of Cole Street? I remember they used to decorate a huge Easter Egg every year and donate it to the Children's Hospital.
Thanks, Bert. What year is that directory? I've just remembered another shop on that block between Charing Cross & Vincent St. Hubbard & Martins, bread & cake shop. Not in that directory, so must be earlier than 1940
Chris, 1962, one of Dereks posts.
God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children.
Is Stubbs the Bakers still in Grange Road West? At the top of Cole Street? I remember they used to decorate a huge Easter Egg every year and donate it to the Children's Hospital.
I think i can remember those eggs, don't think their there now.
God help us, Come yourself, Don't send Jesus, This is no place for children.
Thanks, Bert. What year is that directory? I've just remembered another shop on that block between Charing Cross & Vincent St. Hubbard & Martins, bread & cake shop. Not in that directory, so must be earlier than 1940
Chris, 1962, one of Dereks posts.
Ah, thanks, Bert. So Hubbard & Martins had gone by then.
Note the feeding prices! Equivalent to about 13p,18p and 25p!
Yea, and Robbs wasn't cheap either.
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I had a Saturday job in Woolies and had my lunch in the canteen there. If I recall correctly it was something ridiculously cheap like 2d for two courses. This was at the start of the 70s when decimalisation was coming in. The food was excellent!
I did my two weeks 'work experience' at woolies in birkenhead, during the 5th year at school, in 1988. The dinners were marvellousy cheap and very nice. I had an 'issue' with The Boss and took my revenge by smacking/ punching a hole, thus breaking the new range of Easter Eggs. Haha. I blame 'The Reynould Sisters' being played on a loop! Im better now at Conflict Resolution. The Easter Eggs are safe!
As an afterthought..,would blatent destruction of Easter Eggs or other merchandise constitute Criminal Damage?? Oh gawd. Must be! Somehow a sharp rap wiv a knuckle, to 'break' an Egg didnt seem bad? Was tho, wasnt it? *blush*
