David Butler   10 #37 Posted May 16, 2011 We used to dive Flamborough on a regular basis - the boat was stored in a garage in flamborough village Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
David Butler   10 #38 Posted May 16, 2011 The sign above the door said 'Butler's Caterers' I can't recall the Eating house one - where was it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
David Butler   10 #39 Posted May 16, 2011 Ma Butler's son was Steve, her name was Caperneum Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
David Butler   10 #40 Posted May 16, 2011 Thanks - it was a great place ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
dungraftin   10 #41 Posted May 19, 2011 Surprised no one mentioned the parsley sauce when they had fish.....it came out of a thermos flask and tasted tozzin.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
pensionipper   11 #42 Posted May 20, 2011 Didn't Butlers have a cafe on Cambridge St. not far from the Albert pub (long,long gone) on the same side? A massive meat and potato pie was positioned just below an open window - the best possible advert! Took the (now) wife in when we got engaged and I had a good helping of m.&p. pie and when the guy came for the plates I shocked him by ordering "same again please"!. He asked if I was serious; I said yes, and cleared the second plate. He was amazed as I was just ten stone seven at the time. Mind you, it was 1957... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
willybite   10 #43 Posted May 20, 2011 (edited) Didn't Butlers have a cafe on Cambridge St. not far from the Albert pub (long,long gone) on the same side? A massive meat and potato pie was positioned just below an open window - the best possible advert! Took the (now) wife in when we got engaged and I had a good helping of m.&p. pie and when the guy came for the plates I shocked him by ordering "same again please"!. He asked if I was serious; I said yes, and cleared the second plate. He was amazed as I was just ten stone seven at the time. Mind you, it was 1957...  hiya i remember during the war 39/45,going home from the weston and calling to butlers for a slice of bread and dripping, beef/pork i was 5/6.at the time, or if mum was flushed a bag of chips from down regent st chip shop, they were 2d and 3d ps remember the cobblers on the corner of st philips rd and brookhill the shoes in the window with the artistic soles in nails, and next door the sweetshop, then butlers. Edited May 20, 2011 by willybite Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
pensionipper   11 #44 Posted May 21, 2011 Thanks for that, willybite I'd forgotten all about the cobblers display! After a good swim at Glossop Road baths we used to call in a 'real' bakers near the top of Fitzwilliam street for our dripping cake and a pot of steaming tea while sitting on a bench as housewives came in and out with the shopping. We'd hardly any money (always spent up in there) but they were good times. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
pensionipper   11 #45 Posted May 21, 2011 Cheers! I'd forgotten all about the cobblers and his display. There was a good bakers near the top of Fitzwilliam St. where we got dripping on a new cake and a steaming mug of tea and sat on a wooden bench to demolish it, as housewives came in and out doing the shopping. This was after a good swim at Glossop Road baths.... good times. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
willybite   10 #46 Posted May 22, 2011 (edited) Thanks for that, willybite I'd forgotten all about the cobblers display! After a good swim at Glossop Road baths we used to call in a 'real' bakers near the top of Fitzwilliam street for our dripping cake and a pot of steaming tea while sitting on a bench as housewives came in and out with the shopping. We'd hardly any money (always spent up in there) but they were good times.  hiya, the "real" bakers as you say on fitzwilliam st was just below broomhall st it was called winters and as you say the dripping cakes they made were great as i had them regularly,the meat and tatty pies were good as well, in 1954 i was the one who fetched the lunches the dripping cakes were 3d and the meat and tatty pies were 6d, when you put the top or fitzwilliam st i couldn't remember a bakers, there was a shoe shop, then an opticians, then a garden shop then the raven pub then freeman oakes austin dealership then a small tailors, then a cobblers, just on convent walk was i think pollards, ee it just takes a snip to get the grey cells going ha ha just on the corner of broomhall, and fitzwilliam st's was an old pub called the fizwilliam hotel, when i was young we called these places bombed buildings but i think it was getting ready for demolition before the war the houses around where i was brought up around broomhall district were deemed unfit in 1936, it took until 1961 to start the slum clearance program, ps i seem to remember the dripping cakes weren't real dripping but margarine with a mixing of oxo, but they still tasted good, and the meat and potato pies at 6d were the price of half of bitter beer, Edited May 27, 2011 by willybite Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
pensionipper   11 #47 Posted May 23, 2011 Wow - what a good memory! Must say I need a nudge to recall many long gone places and times. Thanks again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
samsonv8 Â Â 10 #48 Posted May 23, 2011 Badger set at woodhouse any one Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...