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Who remembers Lennons supermarket opening in Seaview Road in the early sixties?

What was the free gift to the first hundred customers?

a) A gold watch?

b) A very small glass of diluted lemon cordial?

c) An iPHONE/

answer is B. I was there with my sister Brenda and I and I got one in a paper cup.

When Lowcost Supermarket opened in Victoria Road New Brighton in the late 60's they gave the first hundred customers a frozen chicken. Crowds turned up!

That the 1 thats the shoemarket?

Remember lennons in moreton, next to the big house. And was it a tesco in liscard, where home and bargain is now. I remember the giraffe kiddie ride. I must have been young....i got my reigns caught.

Yeah that was tesco. They shouldnt have made it cherry tree centre,they dug them up.

I remember Gerry the Giraffe! 2p a ride!

I am sure Bill Boht also ran a coffee bar / cafe in Grange Road West just up from Morton's book shop. It was a favorite gathering place after school, he always made sure you bought at least a coffee and didn't just take up space.

I don't remember the coffee bar, but Morton's was in Oxton Rd., not Grange Rd. West.

Was that the UCLA ( might have got that wrong) which was some co op laundry service. Then that went and they built Leos. Then asda. Is that right?

There were originally two works on the site, half the site was the UCLA (United Co-operative Laundries Association), and the other half was the Belmont Clothing Factory (also owned by the co-op). Leo's Superstore (which was a trading name of the Co-op) occupied the building after the laundry closed. It was briefly renamed Pioneer (another trading name of the co-op) before the site was cleared and the new Asda built.



Inside the Belmont Clothing Factory (from about 5 pages back in this thread)

Leo's was a new building too after they demolished the UCLA.

Leo's opened in the original, but much refurbished, UCLA building. The first, and I think only, time I went to it was the day it opened. It may have been re-built in later life.

Forgotten about leos used to go there during my dinner in the early 90s as i worked on the durley.

Remember it having a carpark on the roof i think.

Yes you're right.

...anyone remember the fancy glass mosaic on the outside walls of the Liscard Co-op? Colourful glass bubbles, if I remember correctly. Always impressed me as a kid. Kinda Chrismassy. Funny the things that stick in your mind...

Had completely forgotten that - but yes!

When was the Co-op demolished? It was definitely still there 1975 (remember parents buying first electric kettle from there that autumn!)but for how much longer?