Good old England! Things to reflect on from times gone by.

They tore down a large chunk of the High Street in Spennymoor in the mid sixties, so that Arndale Developments of Leeds could build a 'precinct'.  It looked lovely for a while, but after going through the hands of various owners, all more interested in showing a profit than in providing quality premises for traders, the latest owners finally seem determined to put things right.  There's talk of one half being pulled down in 2010 and a new Mall built to replace it, then work is likely to start on the other half.  The trouble is of course, that the great shops of our youth are lost for all time, except in our memories. And to think they call it progress!

I remember going to the Saturday afternoon matinee at the pictures with my friends.  Although we had bus fare, we used to walk (or sometimes run) into the town centre, arriving at the cimnema at the same time as the bus, which went by a different route.  There was always enough money for sweets or a toy, the price of a seat in the cinema and enough left over to but an Eldorado Ice Cream or a carton of Orange Juice.

Lyn, we had Woolworth's in my hometown in Pennsylvania when I was a small girl.  Gone now though.

Well, I gohn down to da mahl to pick up a cuppla too tree tings. 

Not really, I need to get my butt to the office.  Seeya

The "thingy" on the ceiling  that went somewhere & brought your change back in the Co-op used to fascinate me too Lynn. Where did it go ---and how did it know how much change to bring back?? - that's what I always wondered!!

I remember Eldorado Ice Cream Alan . We  had to walk to the filling station in the next village ---one mile away---to buy it and  it came in small bricks wrapped in greaseproof paper and it used to make me sick on the way home!!!

loved Woolworths had one in Atlanta where i grew up,tis too bad that so much of the old has to be given up for the new..

Why can we not have some kind of compromise,,,i wonder.....