fatrajah   10 #121 Posted December 24, 2010 (edited) My parents ran a beer-off (draught john smith's mild was a bob a pint) on the corner of john street & baron street in the late 1950s. Being next to bramall lane, match days were incredibly busy; I can still picture the fans in cloth caps & scarves thronging the tiny shop wanting sandwiches & flasks filling with hot tea. Even summer there were always quite a few cricket fans wanting bottles of pop etc. My Dad fancied his hand at signwriting, so he started to write "free beer stores" above one of the shop windows. For some reason he never finished the job, so the sign only ever read "free beer". I don't remember anybody coming in & demanding any! The beer-off closed down sometime in the 1960s & briefly became the blades souvenir shop. Edited December 24, 2010 by fatrajah slightly humorous addition Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
crookes   10 #122 Posted December 25, 2010 I lived two doors from this one - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1226951 Next door to a murder - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1232525 This was my favourite chip shop - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1232146 This paint merchants has been here for many years - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2182626 Joe Cocker went in here occasionally - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2186824 "Pop" Meeson's stinky sweet shop - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2187216 A former Grocers and Off Licence - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1006946 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Tara Misu   10 #123 Posted October 2, 2011 Hi there,awoollen.Terry was my cousin and lived at the bottom of CLEVEDON ST.Had not seen him for almost fifty years,until feb.this year 2010, when the family's were attending funerals.eightlegger.  Wow. All you Grimesthorpe people. I was of the Warrender family and we lived at number 27 Adsetts Street. My grandmother lived at 34 Clevedon Street, and we knew all the Suters. Is Betty the sister of Tommy Clarke? We all remember Suters shop where we could buy almost anything, and it smelled delicious. I also remember Lawrence Suter, and Jennifer Suter who lived in the next yard to the shop. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
donnygirl   10 #124 Posted October 2, 2011 Hi Tara Misu. Are you related to a Keith Warrender who had a son named Paul. Paul's about 54 now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
awoollen   10 #125 Posted October 2, 2011 Wow. All you Grimesthorpe people. I was of the Warrender family and we lived at number 27 Adsetts Street. My grandmother lived at 34 Clevedon Street, and we knew all the Suters. Is Betty the sister of Tommy Clarke? We all remember Suters shop where we could buy almost anything, and it smelled delicious. I also remember Lawrence Suter, and Jennifer Suter who lived in the next yard to the shop. yes betty was my dear wife Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Littlepink   10 #126 Posted October 2, 2011 We had 3 corner shops when I was a kid. Blagdens was on the top of Margaret street . He gave me 5p too much change which I told him about and he gave me a packet of mint munchies worth 16p for being honest. That has always stuck in my mind when I need to be honest about anything. Charlies corner shop was on the corner of Charlotte road and clough road that then became a chemist . There was also the one on the corner of shoreham street and Charlotte road but icannot remember what that one was called . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
louan   10 #127 Posted October 10, 2011 the one on slinn st/heavygate road was sydney nigel coldwells and he and his wife sold allsorts. i used to get sent almost everyday for bits and bobs and me mam and dads fags!  I remember cauldwells or coldwells well and was sent for bits and pieces. By the time I got back to Bates Street I'd eaten the corners off the loaf. When my Dad got married again he moved to Dore and Nigel delivered their groceries all the way there. His Dad had the shop before him, but as a boy he used to help out in the shop. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
anglingblade   10 #128 Posted October 10, 2011 Suttcliffes,corner of Ruthin and Hunsley Street,I remember my mother sending me for a 'bobsworth' of spuds,kept outside in a sack,occasionally a couple might go missing from the sack and magically reappear in a fire on the old brickyard behind the Who Can Tell! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Susiewusie   10 #129 Posted October 11, 2011 Anyone remember the little corner shop on the end of Gladstone St at the bottom of Handsworth Hill ( darnall ) Can't remember who owned it now but it changed hands twice when I lived there . Proper lovely shop that sold everything . It was pulled down in the 70s with the street , I often wonder why they pulled those houses down because they have never done anything with the land Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
leginemro   10 #130 Posted October 22, 2011 Anybody remember Hales corner shop ,Carrington road ,Ranby road ,just brilliant ,great bloke as well ,would help anybody with anything Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Sweetcheeks   15 #131 Posted October 22, 2011 Anyone remember the little corner shop on the end of Gladstone St at the bottom of Handsworth Hill ( darnall ) Can't remember who owned it now but it changed hands twice when I lived there . Proper lovely shop that sold everything . It was pulled down in the 70s with the street , I often wonder why they pulled those houses down because they have never done anything with the land  Hi Susiewusie, We always knew it as Baileys sweet shop. Mr and Mrs Bailey ran it in the 60's and sold lovely lollys and frozen Jubblies! Further up Handsworth Hill was Smiths sweet shop with a fabulous assortment of sweets in glass jars. No wonder we spent so much time in Butcher Bentall's dentist surgery! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
brian1941 Â Â 11 #132 Posted October 23, 2011 I use to like them Expressions for the corner shop, but it was a way of life for some people when they wanted groceries, on the tick, on the never never, on the strap, can i open a strap book till my husband gets paid on friday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...