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Also, having just been offered a job with a lot of international travel it's probably about time I got myself a credit card. Any recommendations of ones with good rewards so I can make the most of expenses?
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Leading question, no?Worthy4England wrote:Did you make them in a cauldron or summat?
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And I was in there an hour ago. Wigan - it's next door.Beefheart wrote:Are you sure? I'm sure it was still a Waterstones about a week ago.wigan white wrote:Just walked into Bolton centre to get some lunch and only just realized that Waterstones is now an Estate Agents????? WTF?? I work in the town centre and never even noticed Waterstones had shut down???
He shit me up though. I was disappointed enough when Sweetens closed down.
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Anybody remember Reeds Bookshop (probably not). It was next door but two or so to what Used to be Ray Parry's newsagents kiosk on Newport Street. My favourite shop in the whole world as a child and yoof. Real old-fashioned book shop.Long gone now, of course.
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In every photo I've seen it looks like Aimee Pistorius has just taken a kick in the groin. The most sour faced young woman on the planet.
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I remember it, Tango - the first place we'd try for books. Sorry it has gone but I imagine most of theTANGODANCER wrote:Anybody remember Reeds Bookshop (probably not). It was next door but two or so to what Used to be Ray Parry's newsagents kiosk on Newport Street. My favourite shop in the whole world as a child and yoof. Real old-fashioned book shop.Long gone now, of course.
shops I remember have given way to 'progress'.
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Most of them have given way to roller-shutter blinds Monty.Montreal Wanderer wrote:I remember it, Tango - the first place we'd try for books. Sorry it has gone but I imagine most of theTANGODANCER wrote:Anybody remember Reeds Bookshop (probably not). It was next door but two or so to what Used to be Ray Parry's newsagents kiosk on Newport Street. My favourite shop in the whole world as a child and yoof. Real old-fashioned book shop.Long gone now, of course.
shops I remember have given way to 'progress'.
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At times it may have resembled a cauldron, lots of heat and all that.Worthy4England wrote:Did you make them in a cauldron or summat?
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I think I really need to pick my head up when I'm outBruce Rioja wrote:And I was in there an hour ago. Wigan - it's next door.Beefheart wrote:Are you sure? I'm sure it was still a Waterstones about a week ago.wigan white wrote:Just walked into Bolton centre to get some lunch and only just realized that Waterstones is now an Estate Agents????? WTF?? I work in the town centre and never even noticed Waterstones had shut down???
He shit me up though. I was disappointed enough when Sweetens closed down.
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Fnarr...Enoch wrote:At times it may have resembled a cauldron, lots of heat and all that.Worthy4England wrote:Did you make them in a cauldron or summat?
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Just to join the old gits reminiscence society - I too remember Reeds (a splendid name for a bookshop).
Their greatest triumph for me, when i was in late teens, was getting copies of beat poetry form City Lights Books in San Francisco. They used to take six weeks to arrive, but they always did. I got Ginsberg's Howl and Kaddish and a Gregory Corso Collection whose title I can't remember. It was like magic getting them from America
Decades later we took a California holiday and I made a pilgrimage to City Lights and bought Ginsberg's Collected Poems and Kerouac's The Subterraneans. And remembered Reeds as I did so.
Their greatest triumph for me, when i was in late teens, was getting copies of beat poetry form City Lights Books in San Francisco. They used to take six weeks to arrive, but they always did. I got Ginsberg's Howl and Kaddish and a Gregory Corso Collection whose title I can't remember. It was like magic getting them from America
Decades later we took a California holiday and I made a pilgrimage to City Lights and bought Ginsberg's Collected Poems and Kerouac's The Subterraneans. And remembered Reeds as I did so.
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Lost half the punch from the original, shame that.William the White wrote:Just to join the old gits reminiscence society - I too remember Reeds (a splendid name for a bookshop).
Their greatest triumph for me, when i was in late teens, was getting copies of beat poetry form City Lights Books in San Francisco. They used to take six weeks to arrive, but they always did. I got Ginsberg's Howl and Kaddish and a Gregory Corso Collection whose title I can't remember. It was like magic getting them from America
Decades later we took a California holiday and I made a pilgrimage to City Lights and bought Ginsberg's Collected Poems and Kerouac's The Subterraneans. And remembered Reeds as I did so.
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My first visit to Reeds with money to spend was to buy A kids novel about Puffin Island. Probably Enid Blyton's Famous Five or Secret Seven adventures ( all of which which I devoured from the library in town and at Shepherd Cross Steet) Years later I won a book prize for a City and Guilds entry and spent the voucher at Reeds. I still have that book, a woodworking manual, somewhere. Happy memories, I can almost smell that unique book odour.
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I've just found out that Douglas Hackings on Ivy Road closed a while ago. Spent many a happy hour in there and bought a couple of bikes off them in the past. With ESB gone as well I believe (?) the town has lost another part of my association with it.
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^ Didn't know that! And yes, ESB went some while ago. My last bike (Honda 900 F2) was from ESB but before that I was a customer from the shop opposite the Wryton Stadium, I'm sure someone will remind me of their name, run by two bad tempered brothers. And I had a Kawasaki 250 Samurai from the dealers on Bury New Road many years ago.
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These are two pics from a family history I'm compiling. Brookfields was a motor cycle shop on Halliwell Road when we were kids. It was next door to the old vicarage (later a service station/garage more or less opposite the Lamb pub and only a hudred yards or so from where we lived. The Toll house fact is interesting: Note the Reliant Robins, the car of the day.
The old Toll House (above), which stands on Halliwell Road at the bottom of Hargreaves Street, used to be a motor-bike repair shop ( Brookfields). Hargreaves Street is on the right and next door on the left used to be Ward’s fish shop. Evidence of the old boundary wall dividing Little and Great Bolton can be seen a little further along Hargreaves Street. In 1813, the Halliwell Turnpike Agreement was passed and a toll bar stood at the bottom of Hargreaves Street until 1877.
These are two pics from a family history I'm compiling. Brookfields was a motor cycle shop on Halliwell Road when we were kids. It was next door to the old vicarage (later a service station/garage more or less opposite the Lamb pub and only a hudred yards or so from where we lived. The Toll house fact is interesting: Note the Reliant Robins, the car of the day.
The old Toll House (above), which stands on Halliwell Road at the bottom of Hargreaves Street, used to be a motor-bike repair shop ( Brookfields). Hargreaves Street is on the right and next door on the left used to be Ward’s fish shop. Evidence of the old boundary wall dividing Little and Great Bolton can be seen a little further along Hargreaves Street. In 1813, the Halliwell Turnpike Agreement was passed and a toll bar stood at the bottom of Hargreaves Street until 1877.
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I won't upset you by telling you how much your 900f2 would be worth now!clapton is god wrote:^ Didn't know that! And yes, ESB went some while ago. My last bike (Honda 900 F2) was from ESB but before that I was a customer from the shop opposite the Wryton Stadium, I'm sure someone will remind me of their name, run by two bad tempered brothers. And I had a Kawasaki 250 Samurai from the dealers on Bury New Road many years ago.
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I thought that Dougie Hacking simply moved further down C-O-Rd?
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Bruce Rioja wrote:I thought that Dougie Hacking simply moved further down C-O-Rd?
Friday 4 March 2011
A SPATE of burglaries and the recession have forced a 48-year-old family motorcycle business to pack up.
Doug Hacking Motorcycles, a familiar name to generations of enthusiasts throughout the area and overseas, will close in the next few days, with the loss of five jobs.
The business is solvent but following Doug Hacking’s sudden death three years ago, his family have found it difficult to carry on.
Mr Hacking died in 2007 at the age of 65 and hundreds of people attended his funeral.
Now creditors will be paid off and unsold motorcycles, along with the dealership, will be returned to Kawasaki.
The store’s long association with motorcycle racing will also end.
The business, which moved to Ivy Road in 1997, was originally set up by Doug Hacking in 1963 who traded, repaired and raced motorcycles throughout Europe.
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