Which shop or pub would you bring back

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  1. Bossman

    Bossman Well-Known Member

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    I'd go for casa disco...I was in there nearly every Saturday morning and John Brittons...I use to love going in there as a kid.
     
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    Bradleys darn Hoyland

    sold everything... well so it seemed to me as a bairn all those years ago.
     
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    Re: Bradleys darn Hoyland

    Old woolworths , those wooden floors . Plastic sandals galore ah ah !
     
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    Re: Bradleys darn Hoyland

    Casa Disco definitely.
     
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    I used to love going to Micro Fun to get the latest games on tape. It was on Peel Street next to the jewellers. Its now a kebab shop.
     
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    Butterfield's had a great grotto at christmas - woolworths for mr men books and bhs cafe - top sausage , chips and peas
     
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    Shop - Casa Disco
    Pub - Probably The Travellers or The Penny Farthing
     
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    Cue Ball next to Civic.
     
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    Reds in town - Get the town in reds shirts, rather than Man City/Man Utd/etc.
     
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    Butterfields = earliest shopping memories, ans Woolworths when it was a 3 storey store on the Burtons site.

    Pub - Dollys, obviously.
     
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    It just has to Casa Disco. I would go in there every day before / after Sixth Form College. I saw a bloke in a Casa Disco t-shirt at the management talk on Monday night - quality!
     
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    I used to enjoy Yates's and there was the Sports Bar on Wellington Street for a swill pre match.
     
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    Oh Dollys, I'd forgot about that place, I use to go in the for last drinks every weekend, good call fi
     
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    I'd thankfully forgotton it, used to walk the other side of the road and still get ears blasted by the music! Used to be The Magnet though didn't it, used toget picked up there by Royston Legion for away games
     
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    is there any truth in the oft quoted saying that when you type " describe the 80's" into google a picture of dolly's appears !!
     
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    Gyngleboy pub
     
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    Old Pavillion, top pub.
     
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    Gardeners Arms and The Vine (had a few stoppy backs in there)
     
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    Pub has to be Ring o Bells cracking juke box
    Shop,as a kid was John Britons at top of hill
     
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    The tobacconist's shop underneath the viaduct that took the railway line across town from Courthouse Station.
     
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