Which was your favourite small local shop in the Owlerton area

[PopT]

Every locality in the old days had a favourite local shop.

 

Many were run by real characters, some were popular for running a strap bill, others for stocking unusual items and some were popular just for a good chinwag.

 

Did you have a favourite shop or a memory of a particular shop in the Owlerton/Hillsbro area?

 

Happy Days!

[arrodbo]

Mrs Woods on Parkside Rd. Always alowed strap till payday.

Mrs Palins paper shop situated between Parkside Rd and Winster Rd on Penistone Rd.

[bullerboY]

Ada's on Owlerton Green in the 70s.

[old tup]

Sybil Wilmotts Owlerton Green 1950s not mine but it was my ma,s favourite,she spent countless hours kallin with her friends poking their noses into everybodies business boring me to death as I was only an infant Tup at the time!!.

[RoyalRegular]

Buttery's on the corner of Dutton and Harewood, or Musk's papershop opposite Hillsborough park gates on Penistone Road, or Pont's on Dutton OR Dick Jow's chip shop on Beulah OR George's corner of Lofthouse and Beulah.....I could go on..

[arrodbo]

Fryers chip shop with old man Fryer bent over the fryer with a fag in his mouth. What a name for a fish & chip man

[PopT]

Keep em coming.

 

Just the names of these shopkeepers and places stir up lots of memories for me, and I'm sure a lot more old timers.

 

Happy Days!

[eyrey]

speedway shop it was somewhere near lilyis breab shop

[caz2go]

Yates sweet shop opposite the park,Penistone Rd

Tics fruit n veg shop , corner of Dutton / Penistone Rd

Shorts general grocery shop ,Tanfield / Penistone Rd.

Gunnills ? barber shop ,Penistone Rd .

I remember the little shop in the middle of the houses opposite the park ,but I remember it as Mr and Mrs Copps shop.

[RoyalRegular]

There were a few shops just past the Vic between Burnell and Burrowlee Roads. I remember going to the post office there which had an old postmaster that looked like Capt Mainwaring in dad's army. There was also Pauline's wool shop, a butcher called Jack and the beer off on the corner. Mr Ridge had the paper shop on the corner of Borough Road and Mr Buckley had the fruit shop next door.

 

Whenever my grandmother who lived on Lofthouse Road used these shops, She'd say she was "going across the field"...what was that all about?