hi all
does anyone no what the music store on manor top was called before the academy of sound/sound control/reverb it is bugging us all :confused::confused::confused::confused:

Wasn't it Carlsbro?

Wasn't it Carlsbro?

Yes it was :)

yep thanks we can sleep tonite now lol

yep thanks we can sleep tonite now lol

Fine, now let me wake you up - what was it before it was a music shop?

Now then that is going back some years it was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a Co-op store:thumbsup:

under the name of gowers & burgins as auntie lived behind it on Edenhall and car park was always known as 'back o Gowers' when meeting up on bikes etc.

Now then that is going back some years it was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a Co-op store:thumbsup:

under the name of gowers & burgins as auntie lived behind it on Edenhall and car park was always known as 'back o Gowers' when meeting up on bikes etc.

You're Right, my mum used to work in it when it was gowers and burgins, not yesterday but it still feels like it

and where kwik fit is now used to be a chippy and a chemists, bet you can remember the sweetshop/barbers just up from there to

where the kwik fit is, I thought I remember it used to be all overgrown? I used to walk past to get to my aunt's who lived on edenhall road.

Didn't the kfc use to be a small shop just below there too?

the KFC used to be 2 cottages belonging to the Duke of Norfolk, the Dunfords used to live in them who now live opp the now defunct travellers rest on city road.

as for kwik fit yes it was overgrown while i was growing up but there was marble flooring and when asked granddad once he said thats what used to be there.

many changes to the shops as the KFC when 1st opened on city road is now best pizza, and before it was KFC it was a chinese (god how old do i feel now).

and Norfolk School was still standing.

I remember the little shops that was where Kwik Fit is now ..in the very late 60s. I lived on Edenhall & used to go & borrow (nick) stuff what was left in the little loading area behind what is now the music shop.

You might have known my mum and dad then, I think they lived on edenhall at that time! I wasn't born till 78 though so not absolutely sure.

My earliest memories of all the shops starting from top to bottom were: Barbers/sweets shop, butchers then the genal, then run down old beting office with Arbourthorne cottages behind then fishing tackle shop, bread shop, chemist, old fashioned ladies shop, fish shop, sweeties shop then gap entrance to cottages, then gowers and burgins and Seniors electrical shop, launderette, Bobs butchers (somewhere in there was a bread shop later on because I used to have a Saturday job there in 1972! (How old?) Then it was Rach's shop, Fred's chip shop. hairdresser, old fashioned ladies shop and cant remember. How sad its all changed and oh yes, Norfolk School was still there

i think i remember the music shop being an upholsterers- think about 20 years ago. Also remember a hairdressers which had a fire, i used to look through the window and saw the blackened remains of everything, and a molten telephone and till. Think its the same building as the hairdressers is now.

Yes MrsH Solo your mother also worked in the sweet shop but that was before you were born it was owned by a french lady she worked along side her sister called Vera LOL

Yes MrsH Solo your mother also worked in the sweet shop but that was before you were born it was owned by a french lady she worked along side her sister called Vera LOL

you truly are mystic!

I remember the KFC being further down city road, where the pizza place is now. And the big shop next to whats now the KFC, that was a big video shop when I was a kid (AD Video?). And the smaller video shop further down (Ronian Video, later RVs) used to have an arcade above it.

My earliest memories of all the shops starting from top to bottom were: Barbers/sweets shop, butchers then the genal, then run down old beting office with Arbourthorne cottages behind then fishing tackle shop, bread shop, chemist, old fashioned ladies shop, fish shop, sweeties shop then gap entrance to cottages, then gowers and burgins and Seniors electrical shop, launderette, Bobs butchers (somewhere in there was a bread shop later on because I used to have a Saturday job there in 1972! (How old?) Then it was Rach's shop, Fred's chip shop. hairdresser, old fashioned ladies shop and cant remember. How sad its all changed and oh yes, Norfolk School was still there



This thread takes me back,its also been covered in other posts.
My nan owned the sweet shop which is now a insurance shop on city road our family were very good friends with Bob Smith the butcher,he retired in the mid 80s i think,the sweet shop was called pembertons.
she sold the shop due to ill health in 1969. She lived across the road next to city road petrol station,we lived further down the road at 656 nan lived at 559
i remember the drapers shop next door owned by a mrs Marples.remember going in to gowers shopping with my mother. I also remember my dad going in to the bookies,a little hut type building further up the road

We moved from city road to live on Ridgeway road about 1970.
I had a rare couple of hours to spare the other saturday so i thought i would have a drive round the area for old times sake,as i now live in shirecliffe. I had not been near the manor top for at least a couple of years. I drove up city road and found the Travlers pub has gone and looking sorry for its self,city road garage is just wast land,Norfolk school gone to,sound control has changed its name and the block of shops is full of pizza and take a ways.
neto has taken over the old fine fair shop and fred hartleys building has gone.the elm tree pub was borded up to (Not a bad thing) even manor library is looking shabby.
the whole area has seen better days,oh and the cop shop is shut up to.
I remember barnards opposit the elm tree also long gone.
i drove down ridgeway road,passed my old house and passed my old school,Gleadless middle school,now looking like Colditz-surrounded by a high green fence-a sign of the times!
back up ridgehill avanue,the shops on newlands parade now all flats,my late mom worked in the newsagents for Barbra Horsefield.
i have happy memories of the area from years ago,its all changed now.
oh and on the way back i drove passed Ashleigh school-now an housing estate.
all a little sad now but brought back some happy memories.

This thread takes me back,its also been covered in other posts.
My nan owned the sweet shop which is now a insurance shop on city road our family were very good friends with Bob Smith the butcher,he retired in the mid 80s i think,the sweet shop was called pembertons.
she sold the shop due to ill health in 1969. She lived across the road next to city road petrol station,we lived further down the road at 656 nan lived at 559
i remember the drapers shop next door owned by a mrs Marples.remember going in to gowers shopping with my mother. I also remember my dad going in to the bookies,a little hut type building further up the road

Andy - I remember your nan - that really has taken me back. Was she called Doreen?

wasnt the music shop once a car spares called samiks

did somerfields used to be a cinema???