| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. 20:42 - Apr 24 with 138949 views | Dale57 |
What things and places have a special place in your Rochdale childhood.........
Some of mine are
Brights nursery on whitwoth rd
Heybrook school
Howarth cross
Football and sports against other schools around Rochdale
Rochdale baths
ABC cinema
Holingworth lake
Fair on cattle market (now cop shop)
Ashy valley flats
Loads more.
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:24 - Apr 26 with 7587 views | RegJenkinsBoot |
I seem to recall that Abe Pinder's sidekick was called (John?) Shepherd and was a Chelsea fan (circa 1970-1)?? The passage of time softens the memory but they were both utter bastards !!
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Just seen SuddenLad's post and you're right it was John Jones (should have remembered that really!!). Stand by my comments about their parentage though, (sent me off in 5-a-side hockey for a raised stick after 30 seconds which remains the total length of my hockey career - thank f*ck) [Post edited 1 Jan 1970 1:00]
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:41 - Apr 26 with 7565 views | debbiesfella |
Anybody remember the Toy shop on Spotland Road , they sold lollies and if the stick was inscribed Toy Shop you got a free lolly next time. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:55 - Apr 26 with 7547 views | 442Dale |
Kiwidale (the same one who used to post on the Barrel way back when?): think you'll find that lift is still in use in the old Co-op/Sunwins/whatever it's called now. It's like a step back in time.
Judd: the bloke in the Baum was there when we started going in the early 90s too, and remained so long he now has a plaque over the door near the toilets. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:57 - Apr 26 with 7542 views | BigKindo |
Correct. St James Tavern one of only Robinson's pubs in the borough, the other being the Healey Hotel.
PC Alan ????? Passed away a few years ago. He used to lead the St. George's Day Parade, Remembrance Sunday Parade etc. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:57 - Apr 26 with 7539 views | judd |
He used to stink. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:02 - Apr 26 with 7532 views | 442Dale |
Standing near the toilets was possibly his equivalent of getting a Lynx giftset for Christmas then. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:04 - Apr 26 with 7531 views | TalkingSutty |
PC Alan Davenport. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:06 - Apr 26 with 7523 views | judd |
Ta.
The International Café on Milkstone Road. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:09 - Apr 26 with 7521 views | SuddenLad |
George the Anorak. Hair was so matted it eventually looked like a knitted collar length bonnet. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:15 - Apr 26 with 7512 views | SuddenLad |
Whereabouts was the toy shop ?
What was the name of the barber who had the shop at the bottom of Cinnamon Street - the one up a few steps ?
I remember Conkeys hardware shop, where they had a petrol pump inside the shop for selling and dispensing Esso Blue. The place stank of fuel so much you almost expected it to explode any minute. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:18 - Apr 26 with 7510 views | daledaft |
The Firgrove Childrens Picnic ran in the 60s and 70s.
Once a year a coach load of kids from the area went on a day trip to the seaside (Blackpool,Southport or New Brighton.)
Never did find out who organised it or more important how it was paid for,
great days out though.
Jubbly's now called calypso's but were far larger back then, or was it because i was far smaller ?
The CB club at the RAOB club on Milnrow Rd in the early 80s.
Clackers. 2 Glass balls that clacked togetherat high speed if you were good at it. How they didnt shatter and damage my face/eyes i dont know, they were banned quite quickly if i remember right. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:32 - Apr 26 with 7484 views | DaleView |
Here are some that have not yet mentioned.....
Learning that showers had been installed at Spingy Park and finding out that they were only cold water.
Joining the bus queues outside the Post Office on Saturday afternoons to get to The Dale matches and queuing up again in Churchill Street after the game (that was when crowds were regularly 6 or 7 thousand.
The Temperance Billiard Hall in Nelson Street (now China City)
Going to the Carlton at lunch times for a shilling with boys and girls from the respective Technical Schools. Circa 1956.
Walking home from the Carlton on Saturday night along the high level on Oldham Road enjoying a meat & potato pie and having no fear of being mugged.
Dale beating Hartlepools United 7-1 with Jim Daley scoring 5.
Selling programmes at Dale games - 300 went through my hands when Dale played Norwich...........what value was that then? What value now?
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:34 - Apr 26 with 7478 views | since58 |
the old barn at firgrove before the new changing rooms,and mr mulrooney filling the tin baths with hot water ten minutes before the final whistle . | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 21:43 - Apr 26 with 7443 views | Daley_Lama |
Saturday 18:00
Waiting outside the papershop for the pinkun to arrive. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 21:44 - Apr 26 with 7439 views | judd |
Gay Times? | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 21:47 - Apr 26 with 7433 views | Daley_Lama |
Financial Times, obv.
Our kid was mates with PC Handlebar's son. PC Handlebars reminded me of Windsor Davies and offered to shove our kids carn horn 'where the sun don't shine' as he beeped his way home after that night versus Stockport. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 21:48 - Apr 26 with 7430 views | SalwaDale |
Some great stuff on here, especially PC Handlebars. I believe The Baum fella is still there. Ian the Bruce Springsteen singer has a tribute page on facebook.
Couple of others from my era:
That song at the end of a Xanadu's night.
Shawfield burning down (a bit) the year after we left.
Trecking back across fields with a bottle of Newcy Brown after collecting my wages from the Egerton Arms.
Tap room at The Hare and Hounds
Buying codemasters football computer games on tape for a few quid.
Sandwich shop at the bus station.
Bob Finc, Mr Carter, Mr Higgins & Gino Grunelli. (From various schools)
And finally those faces that you saw at Dale, never knew names but still see them now.
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 22:18 - Apr 26 with 7407 views | judd |
That mural of Alvin fookin' Stardust in Heywood. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 22:21 - Apr 26 with 7404 views | 442Dale |
That song was annoying.
There's a regular on here who was never pleased with the 6th form takeover of the tap room on a Friday night. Especially when some were drinking orange and soda for 80p a pint and making it last all night. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 22:47 - Apr 26 with 7388 views | SalwaDale |
Aye, more than one messageboard poster too I think. Shouting 'back to school on Monday' at us in his Dale jumper that I also owned. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 22:51 - Apr 26 with 7388 views | TalkingSutty |
You shared jumpers  | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 23:42 - Apr 26 with 7364 views | chuckleberry |
George still frequents The Baum and has a plaque dedicated to him above his spot. He's usually outside having a fag nowadays. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 23:43 - Apr 26 with 7363 views | _dezzy |
was the night after we beat them and secured league staus, forget the year, he was a great man, on and off duty, once i was in the sandy fooling around, he came up to me and said, any more of that and i will make you stay to the end, if only todays police had that sort of humour | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 00:33 - Apr 27 with 7340 views | D_Alien |
OMG I've just remembered trips to Millcroft Gardens on Easter Monday
Been trying to forget them for decades - time to shut this thread down, surely? Please? | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 06:35 - Apr 27 with 7315 views | joecooke |
Roller City
Y cardigans and leg warmers from indoor market!
Rag puddings
Youth club( next to Roch Valley)
CB radios
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