The Buttonhole was on the first floor menswear department - but it was separate from all the other clothes as it was a trendy boutique.
It had a wooden framework which made it a separate area, and the fitting room had ranch style swing doors.
The Buttonhole was on the first floor menswear department - but it was separate from all the other clothes as it was a trendy boutique.
It had a wooden framework which made it a separate area, and the fitting room had ranch style swing doors.
Harold Ian in the 70s used to sell very smart womens clothes too as did Austin Reed in Bold St. Lucinda Byre bottom of Bold St was another classy clothes shop one of the first to have a cafe, Abrams the made to measure tailors top of London Road sold US Ben Shermans before Harold Ian opened. In the 60s there were quite a few "glamour' dress shops around the city including Nanettes by the Forum and a couple near the Odeon.Trendy boutiques also opened in Mount Pleasant and Leece St. Levi's chinos were Aviator and Lee's were KDs (Khaki Drill)
1966 was the beginning of boutique shops within shops in places like Lewis's and Owen Owen and even T J Hughes in their own way.
There's still a taxi rank there on Copperas Hill now.
Well yeah,there would be,Ged...I mean it makes sense as a Taxi driver to park up outside a railway station terminal.There's still a taxi rank there on Copperas Hill now.
They used to park inside the Station so being on Copperas Hill might have been more for the Adelphi Hotel
hi i rember the area well i was a junior porter in lime st station used to go to the ribble bus depot for tea and eccles cakes thanks for the memory jack
Patches had a perrenial fire/closing down sale.
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At the prices the black cabs charge is it no wonder,£2 before you set foot in the door.must be lucky to get a fare every couple of hours.
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The wierdo shop at the back of "Jack Sharp's was called "Cape",with another called "Silly Billy's", off Whitechapel.And what happened to "All Mankind",which had shops on London rd. and Lime st.?
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