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Swimming
Used to go with my dad, he loved to swim.
Market Days
I remember the various market stalls well, and the market cafe where you could be a greasy bacon cob, and a well stewed tea from the giant tea pot ! I used to buy a bundle of nylon stockings from a stall on the town hall corner. There was a stall that sold records too. Does anyone remember the tripe stall ? It sold chitlins, pigs chaps, rabbits and pheasants too - as a child I found it transfixing, and quite glad my mother never bought any of the various gory and ugly looking things from the stall !
Also does anyone remember 'cheap Johnny's' stall ? He used to sell some unusual things very cheap, and not always great quality ! Great days ' going up Market' meant in plain english 'I am going to the market' - then we caught the bus back home from Skinner and Rooks. If we didn't get the bus, we walked home via Cheapside, then headed in the direction of... Read more
Langold Lake
I remember swimming in Langold Lake ! I wouldn't do it nowadays !
Anyone one else been rowing or swimming there ?
Karen
Great Swimming Memories From The 1950s & 60s
I remember it well, we fought to get a single cabin instead of what we called the Monkey Cabin at the end which was the communal cabin where people finished up going home wearing something they didn't arive in, but the pool was great, there was a diving board and a spring board then even though the depth was only 6 ft deep. When Sam came to open the iron gates outside there would be quite a line of kids waiting and they all used to cheer. We went with Haggonfields School once a week and on our own mainly Sunday mornings on the double session. It's a shame it had to be pulled down and not replaced. There's nothing wrong with having two pools in a town, even if it's outdoor.
Lofthouse's Newsagents
So I see it now again after so many years the shop on the corner with that sign Lofthouse's Newsagents above the entrance I went under many times to collect my comics hot from the presses of D.C.Thomson of Dundee: Beano (Thurs), Dandy (Tues), Beezer (Tues), Topper (Fri), though not The Wizard, that was mostly words not images paid for me by my dear late Grandmother Annie Turnill (nee Flint) of 15,Manvers St.
Mr Lofthouse, the man with his name above the shop doorway, I don't remember him smiling very much if ever. I remember a man with spectacles, a balding pate and maybe I'm imagining this as its so far out of our experience nowadays, a fag in his mouth and probably coughing to boot. He did not look the healthiest of men.
I was not an Dan Dare "Eagle" man, the Mekons on Wednesday had no hold on me and I never ever did get into SciFi. DC Thomson Comics reigned in my world. (Later in life... Read more
I Remember it Being Cold at Those 8.30 Swimming Lessons
I remember it being very cold when we had 8.30 swimming lessons before school. The teacher used to shout at us and I got my bronze certificate because I was too scared not to jump in the deep end when she told me. I struggled down the pool with her holding out a sort of rubber sling on a pole so she could fish me out if I looked like drowning but I made it! The experience can't have done me any lasting harm because I still love to swim.
I also remember swimming there in a thunder storm one hot summer day which was very exciting (and I guess dangerous?)
I Used to Work on That Corner of The Market
I used to work on the sweet stall on that corner of the market on Saturdays when I was 17 and 18. Boys could work from 17 but girls were supposed to be 18 which I didn't think was right but I was always a bit worried when a policeman came by.
The was a flower stall right on the corner and I used to sell a few bunches if the lady had gone to the loo and asked me to keep an eye on the stall.
In summer the ice cream van would be behind our stall and a man with an Airedale terrier used to come most weeks and buy the dog an ice cream cone which it would sit and eat.
My boss (Alf) always got me to weigh out the peanuts because he loved peanuts and would eat them whereas I didn't like peanuts. The van parked at the kerb could well be Alf's van. The... Read more
Collards
You can see the name Collards painted vertically on the side of a shop. This was my great-grandparents' haberdashery. The name can still be clearly seen there today.
