| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. 20:42 - Apr 24 with 134899 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 13:31 - Apr 22 with 6582 views | SuddenLad |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 13:15 - Apr 22 by EllDale |
You certainly like your chippys Knightowl!
My favourite for a long time was actually in Castleton, on Newchurch Street.
The first Indian restaurant I remember was the Koh-I-Noor on Drake Street near the junction with Maclure Road. Unfortunately that stretch down to Wet Rake looks really tatty these days.
My favourite Chinese restaurant was the Wing Wah on the corner of Lord Street.
Best Chinese chippy was probably Luckys on Spotland road. Always called in there after a Monday night home match. For some reason we seemed to play on Monday nights in the 1960's rather on a Tuesday? |
Lucky's chippy first opened in early February 1971. Mr Suen who owned it (and the Wing Wah) had all the menu/price boards made and installed and within a couple of weeks had to change them all when we changed to decimal currency. He was a near neighbour of mine. |  |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:36 - Apr 22 with 6479 views | mingthemerciless |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 12:46 - Apr 22 by The_Knightowl |
There was chip shop on Whitworth Road nicknamed "Dirty Mary's" ? not that she was in that sense.....it smelled of damp , red peeling paint work, flag stoned floor, not the cleanest of aprons but darn fine chips!
There was a chip shop on Baillie Street (John Street end) next to a garage with old Playboy pictures adorning its walls (inside) the chippy did tuppence worth of chips on the way home from the ABC minors. ( any body remember one of the managers(Ernest Frizby ?)
Kings cinema had a projectionist called John .........a chippy just round the corner and an off licence on the opposite corner.
The International / Milkstone road did the best Pea and mince curry on a late night.
The Lamplighter on Dane Street very much a parachute club.
The church that stayed on the John Street / Whitworth road became a Ukranian Church.
Razors Edge Barbers on Yorkshire Street popular in its day, the owner went on to Buy Healey Dell farm House ( the old bloke who owned that must have broken his back at some time as he stooped at 90 degrees.
The Fijian Rugby players frequented The Trafalger and Ramsey Street bookies,,,,and the bloke who had the Chinese chippy must have been a Triad as he didn't sell enough chips to lose that much money.
The Polish guy who had a Tech shop on Yorkshire Street (Joe Koczur?)....mostly sold Dynatron.
Gale Street Chippy "Booleys"
The swap shop on Halifax Road where you could swap old comics....how did he make money? although the stock would be worth a fortune now.
Redmans in the indoor market and that brilliant book magazine stall that sold "Famous Monsters of Filmland, Errie and Creepy horror comics
and the Radcliffe arms hosting some awesome djs of the time Margi Clark........ just a few |
I thought Joe Koczur was Hungarian. |  | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:19 - Nov 11 with 6146 views | Evans |
Just stumbled on this; Businesses at the top of Yorkshire Street - Ironmongers: Batesons (3 shops actually), Cameras:- Armours, Lancashire Woodworkers, The Model Shop, John D Pickles (Spread Eagle Chambers Rochdale 47272). Lower down, UCP, Redmans, Rumbelows | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 08:39 - Nov 12 with 6041 views | finberty |
Norden Primary, which seemed to be staffed entirely by women of a certain age. Miss Binns was the Head at the time.
Central Baths on Entwisle Road where they did buttered toast in the upstairs cafe, and you had to shout for 'mister' for the bloke with keys to the lockers.
The Model shop on Cheetham street with the penny slot in the wall to set the train going.
The indoor and outdoor markets before they were pulled down for the Exchange.
Blackwater Street. Now vanished.
Trinity Presbyterian Church on the corner of Manchester Road and Dane Street. Now vanished.
Springfield Park with the steam train in the summer.
Factory chimneys.
Cream and blue buses before the hideous orange of 'greater manchester' replaced them.
Norvic(?) shoe shop in Drake st.
Being able to get a doctor to visit your home when you were il!.
Hoods on the old street lamps on High Level Rd where it ran alongside the railway lines.
Being able to buy virtually anything within the town centre, without having to trail to Manchester or, worse, bury.
The gas works and the fug that used to hang over the area from the chimney.
Sparth Mill fire.
Tragic memories include Lesley Molseed, I remember the posters going up all over town, and then the blurred photo appearing in the Ob of the wrongly-convicted Stefan Kiszko. Also the story of a body found in waste chute in Ashfield Valley flats, and being haunted by the story of some Castleton lads who went swimming in the gravel pits and couldn't get out. |  | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 11:26 - Nov 12 with 6000 views | bluevein64 |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 22:58 - Dec 6 by mingthemerciless |
The tripe shop in Rochdale was pretty small. The upstairs restaurant was like a " tea room " in size. |
I can't recall the tripe shop in Rochdale but I can clearly remember the one in Bacup (the Rochdale bus stopped directly out side) selling tripe (obviously) elder (cows udder) and all sorts of delicious (only kidding) offal as previously mentioned, it closed in the mid ish 70's - the posts about Franny got me thinking about a crew of Dale Grebo's the used to frequent Taylors Cafe - I remember a couple of names such as "Vinnie and Sunshine (probably not regarded as being PC these days)" I wonder if anyone remembers then and where they are now - anyone remember the Rag "N" Bone man (horse and cart) calling out "Rag Bone - any old rags" you'd get given a "Donkey Stone" in exchange for rags - up until the late 60's the women well, some women, probably not Franny! would "sud and scrub" (hands and knees) their front door step/s (on a daily basis) then decorate the step edge with the sand colored Donkey stone - Milk being delivery by horse and cart ...........happy daze! |  | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 11:34 - Nov 12 with 5997 views | DorsetDale |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 08:39 - Nov 12 by finberty |
Norden Primary, which seemed to be staffed entirely by women of a certain age. Miss Binns was the Head at the time.
Central Baths on Entwisle Road where they did buttered toast in the upstairs cafe, and you had to shout for 'mister' for the bloke with keys to the lockers.
The Model shop on Cheetham street with the penny slot in the wall to set the train going.
The indoor and outdoor markets before they were pulled down for the Exchange.
Blackwater Street. Now vanished.
Trinity Presbyterian Church on the corner of Manchester Road and Dane Street. Now vanished.
Springfield Park with the steam train in the summer.
Factory chimneys.
Cream and blue buses before the hideous orange of 'greater manchester' replaced them.
Norvic(?) shoe shop in Drake st.
Being able to get a doctor to visit your home when you were il!.
Hoods on the old street lamps on High Level Rd where it ran alongside the railway lines.
Being able to buy virtually anything within the town centre, without having to trail to Manchester or, worse, bury.
The gas works and the fug that used to hang over the area from the chimney.
Sparth Mill fire.
Tragic memories include Lesley Molseed, I remember the posters going up all over town, and then the blurred photo appearing in the Ob of the wrongly-convicted Stefan Kiszko. Also the story of a body found in waste chute in Ashfield Valley flats, and being haunted by the story of some Castleton lads who went swimming in the gravel pits and couldn't get out. |
We must have been at school around the same time, along with Nigeria Dale off here. Miss Bins and all the teachers there were great educators to young kids.
And the swimming baths I remember exactly the same as you do. Always asked for soup and toasted crust, was cheaper and thicker than a normal slice of bread. If spending money had lasted so far we would also get some chips from the chippy just down the road before getting the Ribble bus home to Red Lumb. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 12:43 - Nov 12 with 5955 views | finberty |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 11:34 - Nov 12 by DorsetDale |
We must have been at school around the same time, along with Nigeria Dale off here. Miss Bins and all the teachers there were great educators to young kids.
And the swimming baths I remember exactly the same as you do. Always asked for soup and toasted crust, was cheaper and thicker than a normal slice of bread. If spending money had lasted so far we would also get some chips from the chippy just down the road before getting the Ribble bus home to Red Lumb. |
The fear of being sent to Miss Binns was a punishment itself, although I later discovered she was a lovely lady really - she was lucky to escape with her life many years later when her house at Cutgate blew up from a gas leak.
There was Mrs Hargreaves, who would actually stand up at assembly, remove a hairpin and drop it on the floor to ensure silence. I'm not sure of the logic of the approach, but the facial demeanour was a silencer in itself.
There was Mrs Sagar, Mrs Kershaw, Miss Tully, Mrs Murphy and my particular nemesis Miss Toy/(Mrs Chinn?) for whom everything I did was wrong and I spent much of that year sat on my arse on the cold concrete floor of the prefabs.
The only bloke around seemed to be mr Midgley, the caretaker, in his brown overall, stomping through the place towing the milk trolley and generally being grumpy to anyone under 20.
If you were a starter you got Miss Fearn or Mrs Twigg who were both good reception teachers - the former died very young, sadly. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 13:15 - Nov 12 with 5927 views | SuddenLad |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 11:26 - Nov 12 by bluevein64 |
I can't recall the tripe shop in Rochdale but I can clearly remember the one in Bacup (the Rochdale bus stopped directly out side) selling tripe (obviously) elder (cows udder) and all sorts of delicious (only kidding) offal as previously mentioned, it closed in the mid ish 70's - the posts about Franny got me thinking about a crew of Dale Grebo's the used to frequent Taylors Cafe - I remember a couple of names such as "Vinnie and Sunshine (probably not regarded as being PC these days)" I wonder if anyone remembers then and where they are now - anyone remember the Rag "N" Bone man (horse and cart) calling out "Rag Bone - any old rags" you'd get given a "Donkey Stone" in exchange for rags - up until the late 60's the women well, some women, probably not Franny! would "sud and scrub" (hands and knees) their front door step/s (on a daily basis) then decorate the step edge with the sand colored Donkey stone - Milk being delivery by horse and cart ...........happy daze! |
'Vinnie' would no doubt be a lad called Vinny Loftus who was one of the notable suporters of the day. The 'Moggy' of an earlier era !!
There is an almost endless list of bygone shops, that were prominent during that time. Some already mentioned....
Blands' Tobacconists at the bottom of Drake Street, Haworths along South Parade, Clive Harvey both on Drake Street and in the Arcade on Yorkshire Street. The estate agent, next door to the ABC cinema called Grost, Marsland, Ashworth.
Bon-Bon cafe, MacFisheries, Freeman, Hardy & Willis for shoes, Yates, Greer - pork butchers
Bill Sowerbutts, radio personality, with his gardening stall on the inside market (upstairs via the Transport club offices).
Hills' Economy Stores, Stewards, Cleggs' bookshop, Smiths fresh fruit, fish and game supplier on Drake Street, where game birds where hung outside the shop in braces.
It's a long way away from where we are now with some of the crappy, useless and unnecessary garbage that occupies the high street shops. A sad apology for what was once a bustling and thriving town. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 13:52 - Nov 12 with 5916 views | chalky_ncfc |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:06 - Aug 6 by Sue |
The policeman with the handle bar mustache was called Alan Davenport . |
I can remember back in the day a copper called Dennis "Tug" Wilson that walked the city centre of Nottingham,he was famous (locally) because he stood 6" 8 and had a big handlebar moustache and I think that there's a plaque dedicated to him somewhere
Franny sounds like a fantastic character who I would have loved to have had a chat over a pint with about her past,the tales that I bet that she could tell,are there any photos of her anywhere? | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 13:58 - Nov 12 with 5902 views | judd |
There was a sex shop on Drake Street that my mates and me didn't dare go into in our teens, eventually plucking up the courage when we had been invited to a lad's 21st and decided to all chip in and buy him a blow up doll.
Having gone in en masse we enquired as to the cost of said doll and baulking at the price, one of my mates suggested just getting a pair of tits.
"They" said the assistant "are part of a deflated doll".
The inside of the door was covered with a vast array of pornographic images which we inadvertently opened into the street and held it there whilst a conversation continued inside, a whole host of bemused shoppers passing by not knowing where to look. Well, the blokes did. |  |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 14:04 - Nov 12 with 5898 views | DaleiLama |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 13:52 - Nov 12 by chalky_ncfc |
I can remember back in the day a copper called Dennis "Tug" Wilson that walked the city centre of Nottingham,he was famous (locally) because he stood 6" 8 and had a big handlebar moustache and I think that there's a plaque dedicated to him somewhere
Franny sounds like a fantastic character who I would have loved to have had a chat over a pint with about her past,the tales that I bet that she could tell,are there any photos of her anywhere? |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 14:08 - Nov 12 with 5881 views | chalky_ncfc |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 14:04 - Nov 12 by DaleiLama |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 15:52 - Nov 12 with 5831 views | EllDale |
I remember Vinny Loftus and "Sunshine" was always regarded as number 2 to Barry Haslam in terms of the Dale football hooligans! | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 16:39 - Nov 12 with 5807 views | SuddenLad |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 15:52 - Nov 12 by EllDale |
I remember Vinny Loftus and "Sunshine" was always regarded as number 2 to Barry Haslam in terms of the Dale football hooligans! |
Barry Haslam still goes to games, though is much more 'sedentary' than he was in his youth. 
Not seen Vinny Loftus for years. He had lived with his sister (Valerie ?) and plenty of others, at what was Chaseley childrens' home at the corner of Chaseley Road and Falinge Road. Now a dilapidated former care home. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 16:48 - Nov 12 with 5805 views | EllDale |
Glad to hear that Barry is still around.
Is it my imagination or did he go onto to become involved in local politics in the labour party? | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 17:23 - Nov 12 with 5769 views | D_Alien |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 15:52 - Nov 12 by EllDale |
I remember Vinny Loftus and "Sunshine" was always regarded as number 2 to Barry Haslam in terms of the Dale football hooligans! |
The thing that sticks in my memory about Sunshine was the game at Halifax in '69, with the coaches over Blackstone Edge. He'd been on the ale and was desperate for a piss by the time the coaches were parked at a depot in Halifax. The place was full of coppers, but as soon as he got off he got his dick out and pissed on the side of the coach whilst the rest of us just roared him on and the coppers stood there bemused
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 19:48 - Nov 12 with 5692 views | mingthemerciless |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 16:39 - Nov 12 by SuddenLad |
Barry Haslam still goes to games, though is much more 'sedentary' than he was in his youth.
Not seen Vinny Loftus for years. He had lived with his sister (Valerie ?) and plenty of others, at what was Chaseley childrens' home at the corner of Chaseley Road and Falinge Road. Now a dilapidated former care home. |
I knew Vinnie, I think he played hooker for Mayfield in his youth. I've not seen him for years. His sister Valerie was a hairdresser I think and a lovely person. I saw her in Rochdale a couple of years ago. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 22:24 - Nov 12 with 5625 views | firgrovedale51 |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 15:52 - Nov 12 by EllDale |
I remember Vinny Loftus and "Sunshine" was always regarded as number 2 to Barry Haslam in terms of the Dale football hooligans! |
Also Jo Jo johnson | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 22:35 - Nov 12 with 5611 views | AlexF |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 12:43 - Nov 12 by finberty |
The fear of being sent to Miss Binns was a punishment itself, although I later discovered she was a lovely lady really - she was lucky to escape with her life many years later when her house at Cutgate blew up from a gas leak.
There was Mrs Hargreaves, who would actually stand up at assembly, remove a hairpin and drop it on the floor to ensure silence. I'm not sure of the logic of the approach, but the facial demeanour was a silencer in itself.
There was Mrs Sagar, Mrs Kershaw, Miss Tully, Mrs Murphy and my particular nemesis Miss Toy/(Mrs Chinn?) for whom everything I did was wrong and I spent much of that year sat on my arse on the cold concrete floor of the prefabs.
The only bloke around seemed to be mr Midgley, the caretaker, in his brown overall, stomping through the place towing the milk trolley and generally being grumpy to anyone under 20.
If you were a starter you got Miss Fearn or Mrs Twigg who were both good reception teachers - the former died very young, sadly. |
Miss Binns mustve had an eventful life, pretty sure I remember her having weeks off after a serious road accident. From the very corners of my failing memory, she went through the windscreen of her Anglia, but memory does play tricks these days. | | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 23:10 - Nov 12 with 5593 views | chalky_ncfc |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 22:35 - Nov 12 by AlexF |
Miss Binns mustve had an eventful life, pretty sure I remember her having weeks off after a serious road accident. From the very corners of my failing memory, she went through the windscreen of her Anglia, but memory does play tricks these days. |
Sod me,what with her house being blown up and then being thrown through a car windscreen she's had her share of bad luck | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 08:07 - Nov 13 with 5482 views | judd |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 23:10 - Nov 12 by chalky_ncfc |
Sod me,what with her house being blown up and then being thrown through a car windscreen she's had her share of bad luck |
Well she was a Nottingham County fan. | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 14:28 - Nov 13 with 5404 views | twotribes |
Friday College Disco - Northern Soul vs Heavy Rock , guaranteed fight
Spotland Road Crawl, The VIC, Bowling Green,Golden Ball, Funnies : Holding hands with a grown man at the end of the night singing United we stand divided we fall ....
Golden Ball lock ins , and the guy who always ordered 5 pints at last orders
Shawfield - Winter cross country with the sadist Mr Carter
Oulder Hill in town centre
The infamous Rail trip to Halifax
Moggy saving the younger ones from many a hiding on away days ( Halifax )
Sandy home and away fans split in two separated by some cops
Tiffs
Tram Tracks
Doc martins
Two bottles of Holsten Pils in pint pot with a dash of lime - sophisticated in Norden
Manchester underground market paying a fiver for a NS Single
Piece Hall Halifax to get NS " Bags "
Collecting "bommy " wood , trying to nick wood from rival kids
Climbing conker trees in Denehurst Park
Deeply Vale
A mixed grill from Cutgate Chinese after a sunday night sesh
The SRA Spotland Republican Army - Dont ask !!!
Getting a colour TV and a trim phone |  | | |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 15:41 - Nov 13 with 5360 views | Meanwood |
Climbing the drain pipe onto Meanwood school roof and collecting balls.
Nicking glass marbles and glass pea shooters from TBA.
Pressing every floor number in the town flat lifts and running away! [we were brave]
Climbing into Spotland 30 mins before game and hiding before we got kicked out again [Pay nowadays].
Swaling an Rooley moors.
Steve's fishing tackle shop.
Gat guns.
Swimming in mill lodges [Rainshaw and Heaps]
Tree swings across the Spod.
Crusts from Rochdale baths cafe, and thin tomato soup.
Lucky's half chips and rice with gravy.
Broken biscuits from the market.
Brookfield school [my favourite school ever]
Deanhurst park [decent in those days]
Hornets near calamity corner.
Hollingworth lake fair.
Smog on way home from school in winter.
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:06 - Nov 13 with 5286 views | SuddenLad |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 15:41 - Nov 13 by Meanwood |
Climbing the drain pipe onto Meanwood school roof and collecting balls.
Nicking glass marbles and glass pea shooters from TBA.
Pressing every floor number in the town flat lifts and running away! [we were brave]
Climbing into Spotland 30 mins before game and hiding before we got kicked out again [Pay nowadays].
Swaling an Rooley moors.
Steve's fishing tackle shop.
Gat guns.
Swimming in mill lodges [Rainshaw and Heaps]
Tree swings across the Spod.
Crusts from Rochdale baths cafe, and thin tomato soup.
Lucky's half chips and rice with gravy.
Broken biscuits from the market.
Brookfield school [my favourite school ever]
Deanhurst park [decent in those days]
Hornets near calamity corner.
Hollingworth lake fair.
Smog on way home from school in winter.
Happy days |
Do you mean Broadfield School ?? I went there for a few years. Enjoyed it. 'Chinny' Clegg and Sid Brown. They don't make teachers like that any more...... | |
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| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:26 - Nov 13 with 5260 views | Meanwood |
| Just a fun trip down memory lane.............................. on 20:06 - Nov 13 by SuddenLad |
Do you mean Broadfield School ?? I went there for a few years. Enjoyed it. 'Chinny' Clegg and Sid Brown. They don't make teachers like that any more...... |
No Brookfield was a final year satellite school for Meanwood, before we went onto either Redbrook or Shawfield. Halcyon days indeed. Brookfield closed around 70/71ish, someone on here will know exactly. | | | |
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