Phil Mitchell's mention of Weatherby's bakery brought to mind other trade names that were familiar years ago - what are your memories of them and what happened to them???

For example, do you remember: Coultons, Seymour Meads, White Hudsons, Redmans, Moores Market, Blowers supermarket, Renders, the White House, the Gem, the BonTon??

There must be many more so let's have them and your anecdotes about them.

I remember Booths on Lord Sreet.

Martin and Bury on Tulketh Street I worked there when I left school.

Maries Cafe on Tulketh Street.

What was the name of the shop next door to the pet shop? you could buy all the old fashioned drinks like sasperella and dandilion and burdock e.t.c .

Nell

The Bon Ton is still there in Mill Lane/Botanic Road.

The White House

Whilst we are on about it how about

Bates Haberdashery in the Cambridge Arcade

Holmes Drapery ( Where the Army and Navy store is/was Tulketh Street)

Whites Creamery (3 shops in Town I think) always smelt of cheese as you passed by.

The Eulah Toffee shop, with the machine stretching and shaping the sweets (lovely when they dried out and were brittle but crunchy)

Timothy Whites

Gerados Coffee Bar

Weatherby's bakery was located on Duke St half way between Railway and Shakespeare St.(By the phone box) Their balm cakes were superb.
In the 50-60s they had one of the best bonfires in town.
They had two sons Alan & Neil. I think Alan is still a plumber in Churchtown.
Anyone remember any of the other shops around their of that era?
Mrs Watts the grocers (her husband Jim played for Southport in the 30s)
Wall's motors ( Rodger the dodgy number plate man's dad)
Fred Reeves junk shop (Dave's dosn't compare with the crap Fred had)
I think only Brian Radam at Stanley's are still their. Is his dad still alive?
Phil

Thanks Ped- you are really bringing memories back for me.
Heres some more:
Chas Hill- Plumbers
Gerty Gertzhog? junk shop on Shakepeare St. She used to dress like a tramp but it was rumoured she owned half of Virgina St. She still used to attend the auctions into the 70's

Delahunty's Bike shop besides the shop in Ainsdale I think they had another shop but forget where.

Norman's - electrical, tools + odds&sods. Shakepeare St

Rodger's when they were behind the ABC.

Kearns the green grocers-Shakepeare St

Can anyone remember the name of the hardware shop on Bridge St that sold whitewash?
Phil

Remember Alf with the one leg?
he used to repair bikes, he was situated at the back of Arcaries
Vegetable shop by the Railway in Ainsdale.

Yes Phil M..... I remember Weatherby's too. As you say the BEST barm cakes. What was the shop opposite Lattimers on Shakespeare Street? We used to get sausage barmies from there (Weatherby's barmies!) every morning. Owners names were Rene & Dave....... might have been Ball?

What about Wayfarers Arts, that's gone as well hasn't it?
UCP, the Co-Op and Mac Fisheries are another three that have vanished.

Herb shop next to pet store was Fozzards Nell.

I remember Renders as that was the first place I worked after Southport High, as office junior it was my job to pick up the barm cakes from Marie's. In the office at that time, Mr. Render, Muriel Cronshaw, Mr. Dearden(?) and little old me.
Also remember Outrams Bakery, Delahunty's Cycles. In High Park was The White House, Bill Bartons Butchers, Burrows Stationers, Horrocks Greengrocers.

Its strange to think how many corner shops there were until fairly recently. Most have now been converted to dwellings. I used to live in Crowland St and we had Spencer's shop on the corner of Canning Rd. Further down Canning Rd there were 4 shops on each corner of the junction of Milton St - one is a chippy still, but there was also a grocers, a sweet shop (Websters?), and another shop that I can't really remember. At the next junction with Newton St there were another 3 shops, one of which is now Alvista motor spares shop. I cant remember the other 2.

Wennington Rd/ Cobden Rd junction had about 7 shops, including Dixons butchers (still ongoing in the market), Jewels chemist, Threlfalls chippy (now Pips Chips), Norris' newsagents, Pearsons grocers, a small electrical/hardware shop. Then just up Wennington Rd there was Holdens bakery, then Fletchers fishmongers, A couple of other shops I cant really remember, the Wennington Market, another chippy, Forshaws groceries, NatWest bank, then further up there was Harkness' chemist.

Can any Blowick/ High Parkers fill in any of the blanks??

I think you will find that Dixons Butchers are no longer in the Market ........Flyp!

Surely you have NOT forgotten Partingtons haberdashery store.

OH NO D, it's back to liberty bodices and directoire knickers again!

But that one is still there (Partingtons) - so we cant mention it. Did this topic to death on VS about 12 months ago Philip - you must have been taking photo's in London or something lol.

Jill's and Stotts on Bispham Road. Harrisons on Wennington Road and also French's newagents. Greenwoods on that road to churchtown - the twins both became Ministers - so I heard! What was the name of the sweet shop near Pitt Street, by the bridge?

I think we can mention shops that are still there.... it may help to jog peoples memories......

This Topic has been discussed at length on VS and SNow, however as in VS the topics disappear off the end of the board with no recovery or search facility it is much better on here. SNow died a death 18 months ago!

So come on..... I am going to email Blowick to get his input. Which will be invaluable.

Favourite shop in Ainsdale was Danters opposite the Railway pub on Station road they had a ciggie machine where I think I bought my first cigarettes . Sweet and toy shop , if i recall correctly you could put some money away every week towards a christmas prezzy or something. What was the news agents near the Laundry ? , closest shop was Watkinsons which is where the TSB was built. Used to deliver papers for the news agent near the station . ALso a sweet shop near the Mouilin Rouge ( no wonder my teeth are so bad ).

Marshall's the hairdressers on Bury Rd.
Keith & Harry's father started the business in January 1901 (month Queen Victoria died)
Reminiscences of old Southport was a regular topic of conversation their.

Kanuck,
I think the shop by the laundry was Harrisons, the sweet shop by the Moulin Rouge we called Tinks, and the News Agents across the road from the Railway vaults was Howarths.

Nell

Here are seven vanished Engineering related companies.

Albatross Engineering, Formatrend, Cooperheat, Nortest, Lancashire Steel Fabrication Co ,Kinnings and Bankfield Engineering.

ON same side as Danters were ,laundromat ( not sure what was there before that ) the co-op , Greenwoods ( with the ornate shelter ),Mellors ,Danters ( now a bookies I think) . Help me fill in the rest up to Delahunties !!

Phil - Marshalls has just closed down, dont think it changed much in the last 40 years or so! Does anyone else remember oldish Birkdale on here? Merryfields or Nadins? Or the Chemist/Post Office on the corner of Claremont / Everton Road. And the shoe shop Chadwicks on Eastbourne Road, and of course Mrs Kirkman. Val Hayes has been there since Adam was a lad too (or since i was a girl - one or the other - lol).

I want to mention Haggerty's on Eastbank Street, where the record shop is now. It was two shops knocked together, one dealing in second hand camera equipment, the other dealing in picture framing and very weird furniture from Spain. I worked there from 1976 to 1981, and it was without doubt the strangest place I ever did work. It was owned and run by an ex-RAF aerial photographer called Jim Haggerty.

The Art Shop was based on a simple premise: whenever Jim's wife wanted anything, he would buy 144 and we would sell the other 143 at the shop. Suits of armour, Spanish tables, washing machines, beach balls, joss sticks, tarot cards, and folding bicycles that folded when you rode them – all very popular. Jim also ran a secret (from his wife) mail order business selling waspies – a kind of overblown sex corset.

Once Jim's wife wanted a couple of Victorian lamp posts for her garden in poshest Birkdale. Jim saw an advert in Exchange and Mart from Stoke on Trent council selling them at ten quid a pop. He phoned and offered four pound fifty each for the lot and they said yes. We drove to Stoke in his Roller with a trailer hitched on the back only when we got there, there were these three huge pyramids totalling over four hundred lampposts. After an hour of hard graft four of us got one of these on the trailer. The axle broke on the way home. So Jim hired three pantecnicons and a caterpillar crane, shipped the whole load to his garden in Birkdale and stacked the three pyramids up on his lawn. You should have seen the curtains twitching. He got into the Daily Telegraph over that, and the council took him to court.

This was a man who bought a sun roof for his Silver Cloud Roller, got on the roof with a felt tip and a Black and Decker fret saw, cut a hole in it, only for the sun roof to neatly fall right through onto the plush leather seats. It cost thousands for Rolls Royce to convert it to a soft-top, the only cinnamon metallic soft top Silver Cloud ever. He regularly towed big loads up and down the Liverpool Road with it.

He eventually bought the old Job Centre, which is where I last saw him. I expect he must be dead by now. I can't imagine anybody ever bought anything from Haggerty's without having good reason to complain. He operated a very simple 'no refunds' policy without fail. Ah, happy days in Southport.

Nell

Originally posted by Nell 2/8/02
What was the name of the shop next door to the pet shop? you could buy all the old fashioned drinks like sasperella and dandilion and burdock e.t.c

I think the name of the shop you are thinking of is Emery's, in Tulketh Street, they used to serve all the old fashioned drinks from stone flagons.
And I recall the seating had divisions between them making them private booths.

Rigsby

Thanks Rigsby for the info,they dont have shops like that now with all them nice drinks I did hear once that they had one in the Blackpool area still I wonder if this is true.
I think the shops were called Temperance shops or something like that.

Nell

Shops in Bispham Road,

Starting at Kays Bike shop (Norman Mosscrop has it now)
Banks Chemist,
Ethel Mawdesley Florist, taken over by son Denis until a few yrs ago.
Ball and Gregson Cakes - they catered for nearly everyone's weddings at 5 shillings per head.
Hampshires Paint Shop,
Minnie Kays Milleners,
Bon Bon Sweet Shop,
Tommy Coulters Barbers or was it Roger Beechams.
Partingtons sold Gingham 2shillings and eleven pence a yard.
The Butchers Rigbys?

Across Wennington Road to the Bank then a furniture shop I think,
Kippax's Fish Shop then some houses which included George Oliver Decorators on to Days Chip Shop, The post Office, Whites Creamery, Dewhursts Butchers, Jills grocery stores across Canning Road and there was a furniture store Howards? opposite was Seymour Meads. with Frenches Newsagents on the other corner. The White House was in Old Park Lane everyone went there for their hat for walking day - they had the same doll in the glass counter for yrs and yrs. Billy Barton Butcher was opposite at that time he sold the best meat in the town and even advised how to cook it!!
On the other side of Old Park Lane was a Gents Outfitters and they also re-charged accumulators (theres a food for thought).
There was Fletchers Fish Shop further along from Wennington Marke


I have missed a few and repeated some already mentioned..


M.

There's a few memory joggers in that lot! I remember loving the golf balls that Ball & Gregsons used to make (I think the posh word for them was truffles).

It was Roger Beacham's dad that ran the barbers shop with Roger as his assistant.

Didn't the gents outfitters down Old Park Lane used to put that funny yellow cellophane up in the window to keep the sun from fading the display or am I getting it mixed up with somewhere else?

I notice that Jacksons Off-licence is still going on the corner of Old Park Lane and Little Bispham Rd - does anyone know if it is still in the same family? (old Mrs Jackson used to have a very tolerant attitude towards selling Woodpecker cider, whereas George Bradshaw in High Park Rd used to send you away with a flea in your ear if you tried it on with him).

What about R Sears the ironmongers (that name used to amuse me - I always thought it was a funny place to have ears).

Anyone remember Emmets shop on the corner of Lytham and Marshside rd we used to go there at dinner break from Stanley,he used to get more pinched than he sold I think.

Delahunties was on Virginia Street Bridge where the chippy is now

Nell, the name of the shop selling the drinks was Fozzards.

UCP Tripe shop - in Tulketh Street , I think.

Gee's chemist shop in Wennington Road

James Fay's - sporting goods at the Manchester Rd end of Lord Street.

The Kardomah Cafe and the aroma of toasting coffee beans blown out into Lord Street

Seymour Mead's opposite Chapel Street atation

Tidy's chemist - and here my memry fails me - but I lived in Chester Avenue and I think its continuation was Chester Road, at the far end of which were some shops among which was Tidy's chemist shop.