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i was manager there for a while but much later, in the 80's

anybody remember 'luxury loaf' bakery in bidston ?
my ald man worked there in 60's

sunnyside; your posts are really difficult to read because of the lack of punctuation. An occasional capital letter would be good too.

Yeah,I remember that co op. Before it became that it used to be called 'The Belmont' it was a clothing factory. My sister used to work there.

Anyone old enough to remember the bonfires we used to have at the top of Grosvenor rd before the houses were built on it? I'm talking 1950; Junction of Magazine Lane I think( it led to the footie ground and the Tower car park.

Would that be junction of Grosvenor and Molyneux Drive? Grosvenor doesn't junction with Magazine lane.

I was thinking that too! Must have been a mix-up of road names!

Does anyone remember Dinny's on the corner of Poulton/Drayton Rd, Wallasey?

Name rings a very dim bell , was it a chandlers or hardware store ?

It was a toy shop Zig.

As we slowly glide towards the New Year I remember the mournful sound of the ships hooters blowing across the river. Many ships and many hooters which always brought a lump to my throat and a tear to the eye. Now there is likely to be little more than a couple Mersey Ferry boats,doing their best but sounding more like a dying f..t!
Happy New Year I love you Mersey Ferries

Keithleys toy shop in Heswall
Dins record shop in Heswall (later Soundz Good)- best place for Space Invaders and Astroids in the back room (early 80`s!)
Lennons
Original Tesco`s (later MacKays and now...?)in Hewsall
Foxes Hardware store - proper old fashioned hardware store with wood cobbled floor etc..and the smell!! (near butchers next to crossroads, Iceland in Heswall)
Topping`s electrical (down near the block along where the Sandon pub is/was)

After a long discussion at work, talking about all the old places around King Street, Egremont, , we are left with one that it seems only I can recall.We all sighed over Millers and the provvie cheques, the piping hot soup at GG baths, Mrs Allens newsagents, The kardoohma joke shop, Cheshire Distributers, but no-one but me seesm to recall a nightclub opposite the Gaumont at the top of King Street. It had black curved windows and was once a shop. It wasnt a club for long.
Just to hear someone else remembered it would help!

Was the taxi office above?

Woolworths in Victoria Road; Irwins (loose biscuits and tea); The handbag shop; The wool shop; The Empress Rooms; The Power Boat and Ski Club; so much all gone.