| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. 20:42 - Apr 24 with 141647 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 13:29 - Nov 15 with 4612 views | mingthemerciless |
I played football there, against " Rochdale Athletic " I think.
I could write a book on this theme but I won't. Does anybody else remember getting the bus from Firegrove on Saturday afternoons after playing and jumping off the bus at the bottom of Drake St. If the lights were on red you could jump off outside that TV shop ( DER ? ) and catch the football results coming on the TV's in the window on the teleprinter. [Post edited 15 Nov 2017 14:00]
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 13:29 - Nov 15 with 4592 views | judd |
She was a bit like you, chalky. Loved a cockatoo | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 15:12 - Nov 15 with 4570 views | chalkyncfc |
Aye so I gather Judd  | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 17:18 - Nov 15 with 4518 views | soulboy |
Franny was a real sight to behold every home game she stood on the slope next to the main stand, usually a couple of kids with her, occasionally wrapping her chewing gum round her finger before it went back in her mouth. As you said micro mini skirt, white high heels, and corned beef legs. She'd probably be banned these days. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 18:33 - Nov 15 with 4476 views | ArthurDaley |
Continuing the theme, anybody remember a women of the night, called red wellies, on account of she always wore red boots to advertise her trade. Must be going back to the 60s. Towards the end of her career she was convicted of living on immoral earnings | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 18:33 - Nov 15 with 4476 views | mingthemerciless |
The Co-op used to sell off 45's that hadn't been sold. One for " Soul Boy " here - I got " Mickey"'s Monkey " by The Miracles on Oriole and " Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, " by Major Lance on the original label ( Columbia ? ) for 2/6 each ! [Post edited 15 Nov 2017 18:50]
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 18:43 - Nov 15 with 4467 views | pioneer |
Not quite as 'accommodating' as Franny, but do folks remember Jimmy Cotton, went to all dale and Hornets home games, worked at Turners. He passed away a few years ago, I think there might have been a thread on here at the time | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 18:54 - Nov 15 with 4458 views | mingthemerciless |
Yep, I remember him well. I think he also went to the Cricket when it was down at Dane St. He probably went to more Dale/Hornets games than anybody I know. He went to Hornets away games also, don't know about the Dale away games. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:01 - Nov 15 with 4450 views | pioneer |
He would go to some of the nearer away games like Halifax and Bradford, always on Ellen Smiths. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:01 - Nov 15 with 4450 views | soulboy |
It was columbia great when there were shops like that | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:29 - Nov 15 with 4414 views | robtheb |
And now for the next character....remember Harry Bonnett? he was always hanging about the bus station.
He had a large, strange shaped head.
Rumour had it he donated his head to medical science when he died, but he got run over by a bus causing excessive damage. How true this is I am not sure. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:39 - Nov 15 with 4405 views | sykeboy |
Yep remember Jimmy well always watching cricket at Dane Street during my playing days | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:42 - Nov 15 with 4398 views | chalkyncfc |
Franny with a large sexual appetite and Bonnet with a misshaped head,is this a wind up or summat | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:45 - Nov 15 with 4393 views | robtheb |
No, it's all true....just part of this crazy town we live in! | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:18 - Nov 15 with 4371 views | chalkyncfc |
I shudder to even ask about BigDaveMyCock then  | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 21:48 - Nov 15 with 4339 views | mingthemerciless |
I remember him wandering about the town. I also heard the story about one of the London Hospitals giving him a decent amount of money to leave his head to science. I also heard he was run over by a bus and his head rendered unusable by the hospital.
Anybody remember a similar poor bloke who knocked about town called Totty Lemon ? | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 22:34 - Nov 15 with 4308 views | robtheb |
I know the name but can't place him, unless it was the tramp like guy who was always up and down Drake Street. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 23:13 - Nov 15 with 4287 views | kiwidale |
Totty lemon how he got the name is anybody's guess. Im sure he wasn't christened Totty? or Lemon? was a small scruffily dressed chap who shuffled around town, he might have been homeless and tramp was probably a good description. Totty was one of lifes unfortunates having the full set of a cleft pallet a hair lip and gimpy leg. I should really go to confession and confess about the names we called him as kids, while I'm there perhaps I should also tell him about the unfortunate incident with Franny Hall.
edit to add... she chased me around the fairground for calling her a fat slag i was about 13 at the time. [Post edited 15 Nov 2017 23:34]
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 00:40 - Nov 16 with 4260 views | downunder |
Big guy on the door once stopped us from going in. He asked us if we had knives or knuckledusters.
"Of course not"
"Do you wanna borrow one of mine?" | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 01:43 - Nov 16 with 4248 views | pioneer |
Come on kiwidale, Franny Hall chased anything in pants and it was never for calling her a name! | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 03:25 - Nov 16 with 4235 views | kiwidale |
did she catch you?... i was too fast for her | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 08:17 - Nov 16 with 4163 views | mingthemerciless |
Do you remember that record stall on the lower market ? I got " Shop Around " by The Miracles on the old " London " label from there for 2/6. Unfortunately my ex-wife got all my records when we divorced many years ago. I've replaced nearly all of them on CD over the years but it's not like vinyl. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 08:23 - Nov 16 with 4155 views | soulboy |
Do you mean the few stalls that were facing a toy shop which i think was called the model shop? I dont remember a record stall there, the only stall i remember was Save Records that was in the main open market before it moved to the new inside market. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 09:21 - Nov 16 with 4101 views | judd |
I'd imagine that even someone as promiscuous as Franny Hall would park the bus at the thought of BigDaveMycock knee trembling with her. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 09:28 - Nov 16 with 4101 views | firgrovedale51 |
She has been cocked more times than Elmer Fudd's shotgun | | | |
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