17 of the many lost shops and businesses of Eccles. Catherine Newtons Berlin Wool repository. Annie Louisa Jones milliners. Thomas Valentine the basket maker. Joseph Green the Fent Dealer (where do people buy their fent now, I wonder?) Robertsons drapers. Jane Firths tripe dressers. Robert Green the Blacksmith John Knott the saddler. - Cant get a decent saddle anywhere these days, can you? John ONeill the umbrella repairer. John Gibson, Stonemason. W Brownson and Co, ginger beer manufacturers Francis Lloyd the fried fish dealer. Maypole dairy. Charles Henry Hulbert the watch and clock maker. Henry Levys gown shop. R Quinns radio and hi-fi shop. Smiths Pianos. - note to self: I need a new piano. All gone and never replaced. RIP every last one of them. God damn you, Eccles. I both love you and hate you in equal measure but I can never forgive you for letting your video shops disappear off the high street. Ive got literally hundreds of videos I can never watch again. Towering Inferno, my Norman Wisdom collection, Carry on Camping, all the episodes of Emmerdale Farm I recorded etc etc. All piled up in my front room gathering dust. Gggrrrrrrr!
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 06:22:36 +0000
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