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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    Whistling at you?
    Sex equality in them days?
    Lol...


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    Hey Gerard, I,m running round the forum after you.

    Where is my post you told me to look at

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    Quote Originally Posted by chippie View Post
    Hey Gerard, I,m running round the forum after you.

    Where is my post you told me to look at

    Ha haaa..Dyer remember that Piccie of St Johns Tower and you said you used it or something and put "Chippie Rides again"..
    Well Ive put a proper "Chippie Rides again" on it for yer without my Watermark..
    But I dont know where it is Now ??...Somewhere on the site..
    That'll keep yer busy for a week or so lookin' for it.
    Its doin' me 'ead in trying to remember where it is Lad.


    Chippie..stay here for 5 minutes..Ill see if its still on my Computer and post it here if it is ..ang on

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    For you Gerard ....anything

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    Deleted..Gone !..Bit the dust...
    Last edited by Gerard; 08-03-2007 at 12:38 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chippie View Post
    For you Gerard ....anything

    Thank You Sir
    Last edited by Gerard; 08-03-2007 at 10:42 PM.

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    Thanks Gerard, done it. You must be trawling these threads like nobody,s business. I,m turning in now. Good night..watch the bed bugs don,t bite.

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    Quote Originally Posted by melangell View Post
    Amazing it has survived this long then - now is my memory playing tricks if I asked if there was a line of shops opposite it (this would be mid-sixties)? When we were kids, my dad would sometimes take us with him and we would wait in the works van across the road - I am sure I recall seeing pineapples in a shop window and wondering what on earth they were? (cos I thought they grew in tins I suppose) Or could this be just a touch of premature senility?
    Thanks everybody for your info - great to find a forum not full of insecure egomaniacs at last!

    I have a pic of an info plate on the power house which I'll put on later.
    Cheers
    That has brought back a few memories, yes there was an old fashioned greengrocers in Brownlow Hill during the early 70's along with a couple (or even just one) shops clinging on while others on that block were boarded up.

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    AND NOT A CAKE IN SIGHT.

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    This has all brought back a memory.

    I was at the Uni in 1969-1973 and I remember that where is now the multistory was a waste-ground car park, presumably where the previous buildings had been knocked down.

    At the bottom end was a huge placard sign - "Rathbones Bread" in big letters, and "Stll undeniably the best on Merseyside" in smaller letters.

    One night, heading for a bus home down into town, full of alcohol and, OK just alcohol , while some of my mates could read "still undeniably"etc etc. a couple of others could read "Rathbones Bread". Me? I said "What sign?"

    Not quite as bad as the night when while Liverpool buses were usually green they introduced advertising- now de rigueur. My head took days to settle from seeing a huge Barclaycard turn the corner and approach me

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    Those are fantastic pictures Gerard! You have a great eye for a picture! Really enjoyed looking at those - thankyou for sharing

    I also found a reference to the site as a whole in a list of what the council considers to be the major eyesores to be dealt with (sounds a bit sinister) - I'll put a link to it just now.

    So was the Reece's Restaurant in the city centre anything to do with it, or just a coincidental name?

    Also quite relieved to find I may not have spent at least part of my childhood hallucinating pineapples..........bless you for that Billo........

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    http://www.businessliverpool.co.uk/u...detractors.pdf -

    It's an "environmental detractor" apparently......good job they've never seen my house then.....

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    Yes, the same firm.
    The 1968 street directory lists them as:
    "REECE S. & SONS LIMITED, wholesale & retail dairymen; creamery proprietors; wholesale & retail bakers & confectioners; caterers; Chief Offices, Dairy & Bakery, Hawke Street, Brownlow Hill."
    It goes on to list 5 restaurants and about 40 shops throughout Mersseyside.

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    Great photos, Gerard.
    I didn't realise it was such a big site.

    Here's a photo from 1928.
    (And before you ask, NO, I didn't take it!)

    John Lennon had his wedding reception here in 1962, because his parents had their's here, too.
    (Gerard will know all about that.)

    Reece's (like Express Dairies) also delivered the daily pintas to your doorstep.

    Last edited by PhilipG; 08-04-2007 at 12:46 PM.

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    Hi, just spotted this thread (after 12 months).

    I had a summer job at Reeces bakery in 1970, my auntie worked in the wages dept.
    My boss was called Bill Cumberledge.
    The Hawke St side was the bakery - bread, all kinds of cakes, Friday afternoon we all made custard pies (2-3" diameter). Further in they made sausage rolls.
    The long bit on Brownlow Hill, second floor was the canteen.

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