Old shops in the Wicker

[hillsbro 32]

Can you remember the Turf Accountant that was above the paper shop?

Yes - the Tote..

[local blade 10]

My dad used to buy Fredericks tomato sausages they were the best I have ever tasted, no where makes them like that anymore.

 

i believe fredericks butchers never used preservatives in their products too

[hillsbro 32]

i believe fredericks butchers never used preservatives in their products too

That's correct - our next-door neighbour in Wadsley worked for Friedrich's and he confirmed that preservatives were never used. Albert Friedrich (1885-1970) arrived in Sheffield from Germany around 1900 and worked for two German-born pork butchers before starting his own business. Apart from the Wicker shop there was also a branch at Firth Park.

[local blade 10]

i lived at shiregreen so the firth park shop was nearest,we used to buy what they used to call "scraps" these were like fat or crackle off the roast pork and we had them with dripping sandwiches with a drop of relish really yummy at that time,god knows what my doctor would say to that sort of diet !

[bdbooth 10]

I remember the Old Coach house restaurant, I think it was more or less opposite the cinema. I had my leaving do from work there when I left to have my son in 1983, but I don't remember going again after that. I think it may have been a chinese restaurant called the Peacock prior to that. There was also an Army stores at some time.

[local blade 10]

I remember the Old Coach house restaurant, I think it was more or less opposite the cinema. I had my leaving do from work there when I left to have my son in 1983, but I don't remember going again after that. I think it may have been a chinese restaurant called the Peacock prior to that. There was also an Army stores at some time.

 

thats right,it was called the peacock restaurant,i seem to remember it was a little bit more classy than your ordinary run of the mill chinese restaurant,then it became the old coach house,my wife & i went one news year eve 1993ish and it was really pants and run down. am sure the army stores was called milletts,think it was near the big gun pub

[wagginfinger 10]

used to know a butcher in Frederichs called Johnny Allis later saw him as a bus driver when shop shut--now passed on

[Jim Hardie 527]

thats right,it was called the peacock restaurant,i seem to remember it was a little bit more classy than your ordinary run of the mill chinese restaurant,then it became the old coach house,my wife & i went one news year eve 1993ish and it was really pants and run down. am sure the army stores was called milletts,think it was near the big gun pub

 

Yes the army stores was next to the Big Gun but it was Mortimer's Famous Army Stores.

[trastrick 866]

 

I think the one you mean was Spencers,I got my suits from there for many years.

 

 

Ah, that's the one, thanks. I got mine from there too in the late 50's.

[parsleydiva 10]

I remember the Old Coach house restaurant, I think it was more or less opposite the cinema. I had my leaving do from work there when I left to have my son in 1983, but I don't remember going again after that. I think it may have been a chinese restaurant called the Peacock prior to that. There was also an Army stores at some time.

 

I remember the Peacock. I worked at Arthur Balfour's in the Wicker, later to become Balfour Darwins, and we often had our lunch at the Peacock. Very nice it was too.

[Jim Hardie 527]

I remember the Peacock. I worked at Arthur Balfour's in the Wicker, later to become Balfour Darwins, and we often had our lunch at the Peacock. Very nice it was too.

 

Businessman's Lunch 5/6d, spot on.

[Grappler 12]

I remember the Lady's Bridge pub, the Army Stores, the travel agent, the chemist, the paper shop, the post office (the family that had that are the ones who have the Chinese Firework co., at the bottom of London Road), numerous pubs, the Studio 7 cinema (which became the studio 5, 6, 7 later), the electrical shop (Sisman?), a record shop, the barbers/hairdressers (was that the bloke with shoulder length hair, beard, flares, etc.?, married a girl called Janet and drove a Reliant Scimitar sports car?), the pork shop, etc.

 

This would be have been between 1978 and 1984. I walked along there and back most days, when I was a telephone engineer/electrical engineer.