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I remember the chippy near Temple Rd. The owner had one of the first Triumph TR2's. Must have been 1953/54


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well I must confess, as thread-starter here, I think I can go further back and come up with more, but please correct me if I get any of this wrong - seeing as I started this link.
Walking from Prenton Park there was the Renault car sales place, which had a ramp and had cars on its roof....cross Temple Road way back (early 1970s), on the corner was a sweet shop which sold delicious green ice lollies which, sadly turned into the posh hairdressers Alan Paul, all dark brown decor. Further along there was a chippy, and then a butchers which had straw on the floor and just about kept the blood and guts out of sight! Next door sold freshly cut ham, biscuits and stuff, and further along, for many years, later, there was a pet shop (still there?) on the corner. The following block started with Mr Mann's newsagents, then dry cleaners, and a knitwear shop. A couple of shops later was the posh woman's wear shop - I think it was called Robb's – which took up two shops and had a curved glass frontage which, when the area started to go downhill a little, got smashed repeatedly : (
....cross over Parkhill Road to my favour, most familiar block (directly facing Clarence Road) which contained Sayers first, then the mentioned hardwear-type shop (later, well into the 1980s), then a tv repair shop (very dusty, full of big 1960s style tellies all over sales the floor leaving just a small path to the counter) , then, my favourite, Gay Cards, where my mum worked for a while in the early 1980s. After there was, many years ago, a tiny Tescos - I kid you not! - before it became other things, then a very good greengrocers owned by a chap who looked like a huge capt mainwaring, and finally, well back into the late 1960s, a paint shop , which turned into a take away. The next block started with a photography business, then a (linked?) chemist, and further on in far off distant times a off-licence run by the Bailey family (who's son, Stephen, was in my class)....further down, the post office where, I admit, picking up a Giro or two, and then another food shop run by a chinese family, and right at the end there was a newsagents which tried to be posh, venetian blinds etc, before Martins Bank (late 1960s) ended the shops ...
I hope this provokes a few memories of those approaching , ahem, 50 : )
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the stamp shop was much further down, past the Carlton, and indeed on the other side of the road. I did visit it for my stamp collection, and it was ran by a small dark haired man who cycled everywhere who ran it as a stamp shop well into the 1980s. It was gracefully called The Prenton Philatelist. Nice

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mmm - roughly in the same order

Garage was RE Wrights at one time
Chippy was known as the "english chippy" locally
Missed out another Veg shop
You missed out Maypole's (Maypolls?)
TV shop was Collins???
Post office moved to Borough Road from Singleton Avenue after most of the other stuff you mentioned.


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Originally Posted by zigzagwanderer
Think there used to be a stamp dealers somewhere along there .


I remember them. They also dealt with coins.

One time - it must have been in the very early 60s - somemone gave me a William IV penny in my change. I thought it must be really valuable so I took it into this dealer. I still remember the way he gently let me down and said, "Son, this coin is still legal tender."


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I own the shop next to sayers, It began life as a bakery owned by mr sheppard then it was allans hardware and electrics till about 35 years ago, then borough hardware/ houseware which phil and margaret owned then 8 yrs ago started selling fruit and veg as coop bought milnes grocery store and simons fruit shop. the posh clothes shop was jenelles, there was a shoe shop were pet shop is now. the florist was between temple rd and parkstone and was called michelles for a while, gemini blinds was sweet shop, then solitaire clothes. the sign place now was a fish monger, there were 3 butchers,travel agents, 2 banks, 2 chemists, threshers, manns newsagents, halifax, post office, cutting crew hairdressers used to be next to post office now further down in what was jennelles. rubys chippy was bugsys belly bar, the wool shop was called margarites but betty humpreys owned it. supersavers was movietime ......

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I thought the posh dress shop with the curved window was called Bakers? I remember a Cousins cake shop too and the Tiffin cafe which was near the Post Office ( when it had moved to Borough Rd) The chemists was Armstrong's I think?
The butcher's just down from Temple Rd was Mr Scraggs (or at least that's what my mum used to call him) Then there was another chemist owned by a Mr Brown who used to make up his own cough mixture which thinking back, was a delicious dark brown sweet concoction that tasted like cough candy. The sweet shop up that end was called The Robot but I preferred Gay Cards with their 'penny box' and bubbly machines outside.
Moving away slightly from Borough Rd turning right onto Prenton Rd West next to the car park entrance to the Prenton Hotel was Carefull's sweet shop which sold ice cream that had to be scooped out of the containers and wow you could get a mix of flavours if you wanted two scoops, then a pet shop, and Foo's Chippy. Crossing over the road next was a camping shop I believe? Don't get me started going up Woodchurch Lane, or I'll never end.....

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Oh and the posh hairdressers was Christopher Boyton's not Alan Paul. My friend Rachel was an apprentice there and also I forgot the greengrocers on the corner was Moore's Fruit

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The photography shop and the chemists on the block nearest the junction with Singleton Avenue were both once owned by a company called Montague Fisher in the 1980s. My mate's mum worked in the chemist and moved with the business when it relocated to the health centre by the Sportsman pub in Tranmere. The photography shop became a solicitors(?) firm Gordon Lindsay and Partners, owned by a former Mayor of Wirral.

Think there was once a Mace grocery shop also on the same block. Vaguely remember there being a small Tescos too, which became J&J Milnes (sp), and eventually the Co-op.

Remember these shops well from spending ages having to look at them whilst waiting for the 603 school bus to Rock Ferry High!

Bugsy's Belly Bar! grin

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these posts are brilliant - ty all for bringing the memories flooding back ....and making mine more accurate! How I wish I - or someone else - had taken some photographs : (

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dont know how i forgot about the video shop movietime seeing as how i spent so much time in there, i used to get the 603 school bus sometimes too.

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the florist next to gemini blinds used to be a shoe repair shop I got my first cookery basket from there!. There used to be an open fronted fruit shop on that block I think where the blind shop is now. The pet shop on the corner of parkbridge used to be moores fruit shop I went in there once with my mum and threw up all over the floor. The butchers next to what was Threshers (bottom of Parkstone) was Evans's. This thread has been a real trip down memory lane for me. We moved to Singleton Ave in 1964,before it was widened, and my Mum and Dad still lived there till they passed away earlier this year. The newsagent next to what is now age concern at the bottom of the avenue was Jones'and yes it was supposed to be "posh"!. There was also a shoe shop on that block which is now or was recently a uniform shop. I can clearly remember the post office at the bottom of Singleton Avenue.

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yes I remember Tesco's being there, I fainted in there when I was little and had to be taken home in the doll's pram my sister had with her that day. I also remember going in there once and asking where the 'little packets' were. I didn't realise that we called Kellog's Variety pack little packets just in our house, I'd thought that's what they were really called.
The shoe repair place was called Combes I think and had that delicious glue & leather smell that all cobblers have smile

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Bit before the time being talked about and poor quality, but better than nothing? Sorry - best I've got.

I only know its Borough Road, 'cos it's got Borough Road on it! Was this near the Rovers ground?

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Can you read the name of the shop on the original?
I think it's taken closer to town than by Rovers ground, where the buildings are newer.
This place is older, and given the direction of the sun and the width and slope of the sideroad, it could well be on the corner of a street leading up to Derby Road, but could be anywhere between Argyle St and North Road, I think.

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Originally Posted by Norton
Can you read the name of the shop on the original?
I think it's taken closer to town than by Rovers ground, where the buildings are newer.
This place is older, and given the direction of the sun and the width and slope of the sideroad, it could well be on the corner of a street leading up to Derby Road, but could be anywhere between Argyle St and North Road, I think.


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