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Caddy's Ice Cream Parlour
Was Caddy's ice cream parlour on a corner near the market? Can anybody tell me?
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RE: RE: Caddy's Ice Cream Parlour
How I remember Caddys Ice cream, it was the best.
From what I remember, Caddy's were in a back street near a toy shop called, if I remember rightly, Worfex, or something like that. If you walked through there you came out in the bus station or the other side was more or less at the bottom of Daisy Hill.
I left Dewsbury in 1961 and when I was there in 1998 last I couldn't find Caddys. So sad!!
Comment from Richard Parkin on Sunday, 2nd November 2008.
RE: RE: Caddy's Ice Cream Parlour
I was a Police Constable in 1974 at Dewsbury. Caddy's was in a back street accessed off Westgate 1st left just as you turned in from Market Place. A ginnel lead through to Longcauseway. They made the best Ice Cream by far. The ginnel to the bus station was the next one on which led past the Carlysle Printing Company.
Comment from Stephen Helm on Monday, 9th March 2009.
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Caddys - lovely ice cream. An Italian family (excuse the spelling), Cadamarati I think it was. A real ice cream parlour on Tithe Barn Street, which is off Westgate, round the back of what is now the Headhunter pub. The parlour was demolished to make way for the new shops that face onto Long Causeway, great pity as Caddy's decided that was the end of the line for them and stopped making ice cream, they pulled their vans off the road as well. As a child in the early 1960s I loved going there with parents and grandparents, where I'd get a 'float' with grapefruit pop and a blob of ice cream on top, you drank the pop through a straw and had a spoon for the ice cream. If you were not quick enough it all merged into one frothy milky goo! Inside the 'cafe' part was through a door, you went and sat (quietly of course) on padded seats at a polished wood table. The walls were panelled and the counter, to me at least, was only for giants to get served at! They had a counter just inside the door for people to buy cornets to take with them or, in later years, big tubs to take home. The only place I've found anywhere like it, for quality of ice cream, is the Harbour Bar in Scarborough. No, I never did get used to the different taste of Crossleys, who were the other big ice cream sellers in the area.
Comment from Gordon Sharpe on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011.
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Just been reading some more on here - the pub used to be The Little Saddle and outside was a very important little passageway that lead to the bus station. There used to be a printers down there, I remember getting some cards made there.
Comment from Gordon Sharpe on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011.
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My big sister Julie used to take me down Dewsbury with her every Saturday when I was little, late 1960s, early 1970s, and the highlight of every trip was Caddy's! I always had an orange ice, tall glass of fizzy orange, scoop of the best ice cream in the world, long spoon and straw! I loved when it went foamy on the glass and and got jaw ache trying to force my tongue inside the glass! The best bit at the bottom when ice cream and orange mingled, heaven! I wish they would come back and recreate the same atmosphere, all that wood, everyone polite and strangers talking to one another and NO MOBILE PHONES GOING OFF! We can all dream! X
Comment from Jo-Anne Smith on Sunday, 3rd April 2011.
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I remember Caddy's ice cream parlour, it was on Tythe Barn Street just past a shop called Worfex which sold all kinds of toys and games, just past Caddy's was a ginnel and a fish and chip shop and it came out by the bus station. At the back of the bus station was the Bob Bon coffee bar and a snooker hall, sadly all have gone now.
Comment from Arthur Mortimer on Thursday, 4th August 2011.
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Ah yes, The Bon Bon Cafe, I think it was one of the first places to serve "frothy coffee" in Dewsbury. And how hard for the double decker bus drivers getting out of the bus station. I also remember going to a Saturday Night Hop, it was in a church hall which I think at the time belonged to St Phillip's church in Leeds Road (the church was demolished years age) and I think the name of the street the hall was in was "Rocky" or "Rockley" Street. There was also a school in that street but I can not think of the name of it - Eastboro School?
Comment from Richard Parkin on Thursday, 13th October 2011.
RE: RE: Caddy's Ice Cream Parlour
How I remember Caddy's was in the late 60's early 70's. My mother and myself shopped regularly in Dewsbury and we often called in for an Ice-Cream. I remember Frank Cookes, the gentleman's outfitters and also some other good clothes shops. All gone now, by way of the decline generally of all town centres - all for the out of town shopping centres. The White Rose Shopping Centre in Morley - this is all well and good but we have lost all status now. Manufacturing has declined and the loss of general morale, sad the we have to succumb to this. Can anyone do something for Dewsbury and the towns surrounding the Spen Valley? Please someone help.
Comment from Jonathan Hanson on Saturday, 14th April 2012.