Information, Names Or Anything Would Be Good Relating To The Tesco Supermarket In Hillsborough, Particularly Between 1974 To 1976. Cheers

I didn't work there- but I did used to shop there, and remember the upstairs being full of good baby stuff. I had small children at the time and loved shopping in Hillsborough, including Safeways which was my second home!!
I was very sad when these places closed- but Wilkos is, of course, the best shop in the world!

hi my uncle used to work at tesco cant remember what year it was when he left would have to find out.

my brother mick wright and his then girlfriend carol

I worked there in 77 and 78.

That any use to you? I know its a bit late but a lot of people worked there in those years who were there for ages,

I shoplifted in there... ;)

hi i worked there 77to79 in the butchers

hi i worked there 77to79 in the butchers

With Stuart ?

yes stuart clowerie i think? a couple of girls georgina from chapletown and a girl whos dad was the landlord at the pub nextdoor.

Stuart and Georgina once hung me up in the freezer and chucked water all over me. Was the other girl a blonde? I cant remember her name, but they all once undid my belt and took my trousers off on the shop floor right next to the managers (Dennys) office in front of a load of customers.

I loved working there

i must have met you then, i also worked with chris morewood and steve smith.what did you do there?

I was the bailer! I was locked in the little room at the back squashing cardboard when I wasnt prowling around getting into trouble.

was you the guy who got the deliveries in as well?

No but I worked next to him... bob something... I forget his name now. Tall brown haired skinny bloke.

yep thats him allways in the bookies, blimey its brought a few memories back i was only 18 then.

I was 17 and left when I was 18 in 79... do you remember Alana and Mark? They were courting at the time.

yes marks brother used to work behind the bar at the wapentake alana lived on walkley lane i used to live on morley street.

10 points to the person who tells us why they moved from the site....

Im trying to remember more names... Sarah and then there was Kath Mitchel-- Ill try to remember other names. I had quite a time working there and I was sad to leave the place.

10 points to the person who tells us why they moved from the site....

Theres a cemetary under the place so they werent allowed to sell booze?

Not quite, but it was the site of a church and you are correct they will never be allowed to sell alcohol on that land.

Not quite, but it was the site of a church and you are correct they will never be allowed to sell alcohol on that land.

Ok then,,, the shop closed because they were so distraught because I left?


I claim my 10 points!

10 points to the person who tells us why they moved from the site....

if you mean tesco they couldn't get a liquor license be cause its built on the old church think

lol too slow

I remember rumours that it was haunted and one christmas Denny and I arrived early and I had to go up the stairs on my tod to switch the lights on in the canteen. I couldnt find the light switch and as I was looking I heared a ghostly singing getting louder and louder...
The lift arrived and the singing was a cleaner with two mop buckets, she wandered into the store room and I tapped her on the shoulder to ask where the switches were.

She went WHOOOOOOOOOP!!! and threw both buckets into the air and one hit me on the head. She thought I was a ghost :D

did you go on that **** up to that old cabaret place in chesterfield cant think of its name it was a staff outing of some sort.

I worked there in 77 and 78.

That any use to you? I know its a bit late but a lot of people worked there in those years who were there for ages,


Do you happen to remember a 6 year old child that had a big chunk of flesh ripped out of her leg by the dreadfully poorly maintained shopping baskets with big pieces of wire hanging out of every side? Funnily enough the baskets had all miraculously been repaired by the next morning. That was about 1978. :D

did you go on that **** up to that old cabaret place in chesterfield cant think of its name it was a staff outing of some sort.

Yeah I was there! I got rat arsed too. duggie Brown was the comedian and one of the girls, sue Udall told him to eff off :D

Do you happen to remember a 6 year old child that had a big chunk of flesh ripped out of her leg by the dreadfully poorly maintained shopping baskets with big pieces of wite hanging out of every side? Funnily enough the baskets had all miraculously been repaired by the next morning. That was about 1978. :D

No I cant remember that! I was there at that time too, I was usually locked away out of harms way though so I missed a lot.

I used to escape occasionally though and... things happened...

Well, should we ever be on the same forum meet, I'll show you that poor little girls scar. :(

Well, should we ever be on the same forum meet, I'll show you that poor little girls scar. :(

It was you?


You just made me feel very old :D


I bet the manager, Denny managed to ooze out of it didnt he?

Yeah I was there! I got rat arsed too. duggie Brown was the comedian and one of the girls, sue Udall told him to eff off :D

duggie brown yeah! i borrowed my dads suit and was sick as a dog all over it

I am 36 now, you know - not that that's gonna make you feel any younger....!

And, mmmmmm, he did kinda get out of it, although more through my mum than him. She just wanted to get me to a hospital, 'cos I was bleeding badly, and he, meanwhile, was badgering her about compensation. I think she had to shout at him in the end. It wasn't the days of compensation, and my mum wasn't/isn't that sort of person.

Ho hum. I could've been a millionaire by now.

Well, should we ever be on the same forum meet, I'll show you that poor little girls scar. :(

sorry dont remember your about the same age as my youngest sister

duggie brown yeah! i borrowed my dads suit and was sick as a dog all over it

I think everybody puked that night! I remember up till about 9 oclock then after that I cant remember a thing!

Did you go to that Ozzy owl night at the Wednesday ground? I think it was an engagement do between one of the girls and the assistant manager... I got so drunk that I was almost arrested on my way home because I was weeing on a parked car under the 5 arches.

It turned out to be a cop car.


Denny got me in he office and gave me a right rollocking because the coppers phoned him and blamed him for getting young lads drunk!

I am 36 now, you know - not that that's gonna make you feel any younger....!

And, mmmmmm, he did kinda get out of it, although more through my mum than him. She just wanted to get me to a hospital, 'cos I was bleeding badly, and he, meanwhile, was badgering her about compensation. I think she had to shout at him in the end. It wasn't the days of compensation, and my mum wasn't/isn't that sort of person.

Ho hum. I could've been a millionaire by now.

He was an oily git so Im surprised he didnt try to make you pay for getting blood on the floor :D

sorry dont remember your about the same age as my youngest sister

You're not the manager are you?????

I think everybody puked that night! I remember up till about 9 oclock then after that I cant remember a thing!

Did you go to that Ozzy owl night at the Wednesday ground? I think it was an engagement do between one of the girls and the assistant manager... I got so drunk that I was almost arrested on my way home because I was weeing on a parked car under the 5 arches.

It turned out to be a cop car.


Denny got me in he office and gave me a right rollocking because the coppers phoned him and blamed him for getting young lads drunk!
cant remember i do remember the assistant manager was called price lol he had a purple patch birthmark on his face

You're not the manager are you?????

no i was only 18 i was a butcher.. still am come to think of it!

cant remember i do remember the assistant manager was called price lol he had a purple patch birthmark on his face

Bloody hell yeah! Pricey used to drag me into the store room and beat me up :D

Then Clowrie would join in and Id end up in the freezer again.


I remember slashing my leg open and Stuart got me on the butchers slab and patched me up with butterfly stitches, I still have the scar to this day

no i was only 18 i was a butcher.. still am come to think of it!

Youre... Mark? big lad? Brown hair? Shoulder length hair? got stabbed through the hand by a dart?

do any of you lot from tescos remember the new mall opening in 1979, I worked in gt leisuretime which was next door to prestos supermarket.
I remember a very tall guy from tescos used to come in our shop, he had very bushy hair, played rugby i think, he used to fancy one of my friends in leisuretime.:D:D, maybe its someone on here

He was an oily git so Im surprised he didnt try to make you pay for getting blood on the floor :D

It was a really, really bad cut, it proper scooped an inch square piece of flesh out. I'd lost my mum too, so I was laid on the floor, screaming, with all these old ladies faces looking down at me, going, "ooooooooohhh", not in a concerned way, just in an "oooooooh look at that" type way.

Can you tell I'm scarred mentally by it too? :hihi:

Youre... Mark? big lad? Brown hair? Shoulder length hair? got stabbed through the hand by a dart?

you got me dude:D

do any of you lot from tescos remember the new mall opening in 1979, I worked in gt leisuretime which was next door to prestos supermarket.
I remember a very tall guy from tescos used to come in our shop, he had very bushy hair, played rugby i think, he used to fancy one of my friends in leisuretime.:D:D, maybe its someone on here

that was steve smith i last saw him in the early 80s

you got me dude:D

HAH I knew it! Its good to hear from you!
God youve brought back a few memories.

you got me dude:D

Ok... it was my 18th birthday and you and Stuart ambushed me and carried me into the bogs to put my head down it or something and as you firemans lifted me through the door I bashed my head on the frame and knocked a chunk out of it!

Remember that? I was completely unhurt but there was a bloody big chip knocked out of the frame!

Oh yeah.. Alan Robertson? Remember him? Hes all married and posh now.

Im remembering names now :D

God I just remembered something else! We were all sat in the canteen one afternoon and you walked in with a couple of pigs eyes stuck to your eyelids and a pigs tail poking out of your trousers! :D

You scares the girls to death!

Ok... it was my 18th birthday and you and Stuart ambushed me and carried me into the bogs to put my head down it or something and as you firemans lifted me through the door I bashed my head on the frame and knocked a chunk out of it!

Remember that? I was completely unhurt but there was a bloody big chip knocked out of the frame!

yeah can you remember when you left was stuart still there?
was chris morewood there?

God I just remembered something else! We were all sat in the canteen one afternoon and you walked in with a couple of pigs eyes stuck to your eyelids and a pigs tail poking out of your trousers! :D

You scares the girls to death!

s..t i remember we also put one in a girls cofee:o

yeah can you remember when you left was stuart still there?
was chris morewood there?

I remember Stuart being there because I had to avoid him for my last week... he was going to get me and give me a little leaving present so I hid... he got me though because I thought Id kept my leaving a secret but I opened my big gob and dropped myself right in it.
I ended up on an S hook in the freezer next to a dead half pic and covered in a bucket of water.

Was Chris the tall lad who fancied that Sarah girl? Got into a scrap over her?

s..t i remember we also put one in a girls cofee:o

Those lasses were made to torment werent they :D I used to love winding them up.

did you go on that **** up to that old cabaret place in chesterfield cant think of its name it was a staff outing of some sort.

The Aquarious! I just remembered the name!

Chris was medium stocky wore glasses
do you remember the fat canteen lady used to mop the oven out cos she couldn't bend down far enough to clean it:hihi:

It was a really, really bad cut, it proper scooped an inch square piece of flesh out. I'd lost my mum too, so I was laid on the floor, screaming, with all these old ladies faces looking down at me, going, "ooooooooohhh", not in a concerned way, just in an "oooooooh look at that" type way.

Can you tell I'm scarred mentally by it too? :hihi:

I think Id have been scarred by it too! Im glad I didnt see it now!

The Aquarious! I just remembered the name!

damn! thats it being doing my box in that has.

Chris was medium stocky wore glasses
do you remember the fat canteen lady used to mop the oven out cos she couldn't bend down far enough to clean it:hihi:

Yeah that was kaths mother! kath used to... entertain lads in the big lift... the cow never entertained me though :D


I remember Denny sacking her, he was trying to be nice but he was crapping himself in case she slapped him :D

kath god yeah chris went out with her. lived on park hill flats

kath god yeah chris went out with her. lived on park hill flats

Didnt she get hitched to a lad who got stabbed in the guts? He almost died too.

I think they moved to Bristol.

Didnt she get hitched to a lad who got stabbed in the guts? He almost died too.

I think they moved to Bristol.

dont know i moved to the darnall store in79 left in81

God youve brought back some memories, I was roaring with laughter here thinking about those days and the other half is giving me some wierd looks.

i just remembered that big old radio blasting out in the bailing room

God youve brought back some memories, I was roaring with laughter here thinking about those days and the other half is giving me some wierd looks.

same here mate next time im up that way well have to have a pint

i just remembered that big old radio blasting out in the bailing room

Yeah I used to sing like a nutter to that as I was squashing things, Denny used to go mental because it disturbed the customers.
I remember being ordered to wash the regional managers car once and I put the hose pipe into the back window of his car and flooded it.
I got the sack for that one but I was leaving anyway so there was bugger all he could do.

same here mate next time im up that way well have to have a pint

Im not there now, I moved to Leicestershire, Im about 15 miles from Nottingham now and I used to work there on nights in the NCP car parks, collecting the cash from there.

im just outside nottingham small world innit:D

im just outside nottingham small world innit:D

Yeah not half! Do you know what happened to Stuart and Georgina?
She was a looker wasnt she?

stuart left to work for littlewoods in barnsley last time i heard from him he was selling insurance in about 83. he will be about 58 now dont know about the rest.
30 years aga damn thats scary.

Yeah its scaring me too, it doesnt seem like two minutes since we worked there does it? I cant imagine Stuart being an old bloke! I bet hes still a sod :D

freaky innit, ivegot to log off mate its been really good remenissing :D


mark.

freaky innit, ivegot to log off mate its been really good remenissing :D


mark.

Ok me too, Im watching telly all night now. It was brilliant was that, I hope this thread stays open, we never know who might join us here!

Sure one of my relatives worked there? Keith Smith? But, i could be wrong! :confused:

Was a "satdi lad" approx 70 to 72. Denny was the manager then.

Stuart and Georgina once hung me up in the freezer and chucked water all over me. Was the other girl a blonde? I cant remember her name, but they all once undid my belt and took my trousers off on the shop floor right next to the managers (Dennys) office in front of a load of customers.

I loved working there

I actually worked in the Butchery Dept @ Tescos between 74 and 75.Worked Thurs eve ,Fri eve and all day Sat. Yep remember Stuart who was in charge, reckon he came from Barnsley, as for those two foxy ladies, yeah Georgina was the one with the long dark hair and the other girl had curly blonde hair and was called Christine Struggles, then she married this guy called Phil,and yep they were v mischievous as i recall !!!!!!!!

Yeah they were both gorgeous little buggers. I remember Christine saying the word "Tuwerst" instead of Toast because it bugged Stuart.

Do ya remember the guy who ran the fruit n veg dept, he was called John Gallivan or something similar, worked for him for a while. Then there was this guy about my age who worked full time on the Provisions Dept as they called it then called J.J and also a guy called Les on same dept.Also remember Denny having these tremendous 1970s sideboards ???

I remember Les I think... bald and stocky? I remember Dennys huge sideboards and they way he used to purse his lips at people, he was very camp, was Denny!

All flooding back now, there was a mature, but quite stunning cashier / checkout lady called Dot, from Stannington remember her ?

Bloody hell Dot yeah! Denny had an affair with her from what I can remember.. Dot Parkin I think she was called.

Steve Smith, yep big guy used to play Rugby,sported blonde Afro,used to work on Butchery, lived on Southey Green Rd, we became good friends, used to play snooker together @ Hillfoot Working Mens Club, remember that one matey ???

I remember Hillfoot club! That was the first and only working mans club I was a member of.
God is that place still there?

I remember my first day at Tescos, I walked into the canteen and there was a bloke in a white overall making coffee from that frothy coffee machine thing. I thought he was the canteen bloke so I asked him to make me a coffee.

It was my first meeting with Stuart and he was a bit annoyed because I called him the canteen man so he grabbed me, took me out into the store room and held me upside down and banged my head into a big box of cat food :D
Then it was time for my first hanging up on an s hook in the fridge.
I spent more time hanging in that bloody freezer next to dead half pigs and sheep than I spent working!

Yep Dot Parkin was the name and yeah reckon ya right was talk of an alleged association with Denny, ya pretty good with the old names fella. What did ya call that old battleaxe who was kind of in charge of cahiers, Anne ?? never smiled much !!!.. Do you also remember a girl who started work full time in mid seventies called Lorraine i think, now she was a minx !!!!!!

Well from what I heared they were caught having it away a while after I left Tescos in 79 and there was a right stink.
Im struggling to remember the names, its burning my brain out.. I cant remember Annie- unless she was the blonde woman? curly blonde hair? I remember an Alana but Im not sure if I remember a Lorraine yet... Itll come to me though... I vaguely remember Lorraine and alarna now, come to think of it, I wonder if they were mates...? Alana pierced my ear in the car park of the Ball with a dart one night, I still have an ear ring in there to this day so Ill never forget her :D

from what i heard denny was boning one or two of em.
that dot bird finished up knocking the home and wear guy off ,
i think denny then got moved to woodseats.
the girl whos dad had the shakspere was called bev i think.

And I always thought he was Gay, he certainly had the mannerisms. I remember the Home and wear bloke but I cant remember his name, and I remember dot being a horrible snob- looks as if her morals werent as high as she wanted people to think they were!

Are the lifts still there? I know its not a Tescos now but .. a Wilkinsons? There are two lifts near to the managers office, a large freight lift and a smaller passenger one, I used to have to lurk in the lift shaft at the bottom once or twice each week to clean it out.


If any of you go into that store now, and youre passing the lifts, have a quiet moment to yourself, stare at that small lift and think of old Jabberwock, crapping himself at the bottom of that lift shaft as the lift went up and down above him... The damn boss didnt have the heart to stop the lift from working, time is money and all that, so I had to work like a loony with the lift still moving, the health and safety people would have an orgasm these days.
The times I had to lay flat in the little pit on the floor because the lift came all the way down... god.

was you the guy who got the deliveries in as well?

I worked there 77-79 remember jean ont bacon counter used to smoke a pipe

I was greengrocer worked wi janet beaumont

do any of you lot from tescos remember the new mall opening in 1979, I worked in gt leisuretime which was next door to prestos supermarket.
I remember a very tall guy from tescos used to come in our shop, he had very bushy hair, played rugby i think, he used to fancy one of my friends in leisuretime.:D:D, maybe its someone on here

I remeber them buildin it and we had to evacuate I think they found an old bomb or summat it were time of firemans strike and they turned up in green goddesses i think

I knew Mr Denny,Alan Price and Mr Lawrence for a few years,I used to service and repair their cars.Denny retired to spain,and Alan Price went to manage Southey then retired,dont know what happened to lawrence,before you say it jabs NO he didnt go to Arabia.:D:D

was you the guy who got the deliveries in as well?

I did that in 1975,left about 10 minutes before getting the sack.
I was once in front of a denny and roberts kangaroo court because 1 packet of sausages was missing.I was told repeatedly that nothing came in the back door without an invoice and all items must be checked off.He forgot about all the extras and free stuff that came from reps etc.One day a salesman turned up with a tv that denny had won for being the most slimey manager,allegedly for selling the most Birds Eye stuff,that he had over ordered,which I think is still being sold at Tescos all over the world.Well I asked this suit if he had an invoice for this telly,he hadn't so I sent him away.

Do ya remember the guy who ran the fruit n veg dept, he was called John Gallivan or something similar, worked for him for a while. Then there was this guy about my age who worked full time on the Provisions Dept as they called it then called J.J and also a guy called Les on same dept.Also remember Denny having these tremendous 1970s sideboards ???

JJ was a guy called John James was always in the Fox or the Gate
could play darts a bit too. There was a girl on provisions as well, linda mitchelson i think
There was a lass called Diane who worked on home and wear I remember her paricularly cos met her again in 84 in maternity at northern her kid and my lad were born hours apart small world

JJ was a guy called John James was always in the Fox or the Gate
could play darts a bit too. There was a girl on provisions as well, linda mitchelson i think
There was a lass called Diane who worked on home and wear I remember her paricularly cos met her again in 84 in maternity at northern her kid and my lad were born hours apart small world

I remember Linda Mitchelson. She used to scare the willies out of me, she used to tell me off all the time!

I can't believe there is a thread about this. I worked there as well, no one has mentioned me so I must have been such a good person, not LOL. These are the people I can remember in no particular order. Stuart and Tony Denny,Alan Price, Mr L,Mr Wayne Fox, Dot Parkin,Diane Revil,Sue Udall, Alan Price,Ian Tompson,Ian Johnson and his sister Dawn I think, she was so lovely as was Ian,,Alan Robertson who married a girl/lady called Jill, Anne, Naylor, Beryl, Gary W,Stuart,Mark(in the butchers) Mark in the warehouse,Ada the most brilliant cook ever, she was great,Kath (Adas daughter), Denise,Sandra,Wendy,Paul, Diddy,Sarah, Alana,Eshter Toogood (she was great)and husband, Steph who married a sailor and last but not least 'Jabberwocky' what a guy with Bob on the back door. You should have gone on stage, you are so funny after all these years.
Love to everyone
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When did Tesco open, I remember Bob Monkhouse opened it but what year was it?