Does anyone know what it was before they opened?????? :help:

Years ago it was Woolworths.
I think it was a clothes shop before Wilkinson...Binns??

Ooops.. sorry...wrong Wilko!!

lol are you thinking of the one in town?

Dunns Stores before wilkinsons

well,flamin eck!!!! me and O/h were only discussing this the other day, he reackons it used to be Co-op as he lived down there fo a long long time before moving in with me.
The lighting shop next door has always been a lighting shop though.

Will confer when he gets back from work just to make sure that's what he said. Bet he could name every shop/ pub from Banners down and the rest....interesting but can get boring.:hihi:
He can tell you where Liptons was etc cos he's old! but don't tell him.

it was a morrisons wasnt it?

well,flamin eck!!!! me and O/h were only discussing this the other day, he reackons it used to be Co-op as he lived down there fo a long long time before moving in with me.
The lighting shop next door has always been a lighting shop though.

Will confer when he gets back from work just to make sure that's what he said. Bet he could name every shop/ pub from Banners down and the rest....interesting but can get boring.:hihi:
He can tell you where Liptons was etc cos he's old! but don't tell him.

I seem to remember,the Lighting Shop,used to be Wigfall's.That would be in the 1950s - early 60s.

Your thinking of the Morrisons behind the front row of shops, this is now ALDI. The on he's on about is the Wilkinsons directly opposite the Wellington Pub, bang nex door to the lighting shop.

Hey...my memories playing tricks now....did this used to be some sort of bus terminus?
Gosh, no idea where that came from, but I still remember Cravans and the old Co-op dairy just before the bridge, where the Arena is now, with the model cow stood in the bay window type thing. Dad worked at Firth Browns and Grandama lived down Britnall Street...lol

yeah for Keithwwb! that was the other argument with O/H lol, I said the lighting shop could'nt have always been there and it WAS something else before, as I could vaguely recall a change over when I was very young....early 70's. He was having none of it!

Puddingburner wrote... with the model cow stood in the bay window type thing.
Are you not thinking of the Dairy on Broadfield Road ?

Puddingburner wrote... with the model cow stood in the bay window type thing.
Are you not thinking of the Dairy on Broadfield Road ?

NO that one was very similar but at Heeley/ Abbeyfield...the one I recall was Arena area, opposite Noose and Gibbet and now disappeared Enfield Pub.

When the canal was a deep yellow colour and there was a shop that sold Donkey stones and tin baths.

It was a Tesco in 1978. I used to go there.

It was a Tesco in 1978. I used to go there.

Wigfalls furniture store were there in the 50's - 60's, before that Darnall Cinema.

It was definately tescos ,my mother was a checkout lady.

Your thinking of the Morrisons behind the front row of shops, this is now ALDI. The on he's on about is the Wilkinsons directly opposite the Wellington Pub, bang nex door to the lighting shop.

Hey...my memories playing tricks now....did this used to be some sort of bus terminus?
Gosh, no idea where that came from, but I still remember Cravans and the old Co-op dairy just before the bridge, where the Arena is now, with the model cow stood in the bay window type thing. Dad worked at Firth Browns and Grandama lived down Britnall Street...lol

I can remember the lighting shop being Wigfalls .I also remember the old Co-op Dairy as I used to work at the Co-op Warehouse offices which were also there.I can't remember what wilko's was but the Cinema used to be there somewhere.

It was definately tescos ,my mother was a checkout lady.

Yes I remember now it was Tesco and Wigfalls and they were built where the cinema used to be.

it was a tesco i worked there from 79 -81