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Sunray10
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13/12/2010
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Do any members or guests remember the U.C.P. cafes/milk bars from the 1950s and 60s. These establishments sold only foods associated with dairy farms, usually locally based, for example eggs, milk, ice cream, milk shakes, cheese, tripe, cow-heel. I remember there were three U.C.P cafes in Nelson - Netherfield Road, Manchester Road and Every Street (next to Clarks and the chemists).
I can remember going into the one on Manchester Road, Nelson, with my mother in the mid 1960s and having poached egg on toast and a milky cup of tea, and how good it all tasted !
Can anybody else recall the U.C.P cafes/milk bars. Sadly, they disappeared in the late 1960s early 70s. Now we have coffee bars, rather than milk bars.
R.Spencer.
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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 Posted - 14/12/2010 : 06:04
Pop UCP in the search box Ray. Lots on the site.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Callunna
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 11:31
Yes, I remember Barlick's Milk Bar from the 60s (don't know whether it was UCP - never heard of that before).
It was where Joyce's Snack Bar is now and you got Horlicks served in a mug with a solid handle. Next door but one was the Paragon Library, brim full of toys to gaze at and dream of one day owning, if Santa saw fit.
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Another
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 12:11
Cally, the mugs with the solid handles is what I rember about the milk bar and the mixer fixed to the counter for the milk shakes. There used to be a milk bar in Barrowford - in what is now the dentists on Gisburn Road near to sam Holdens canteen. I also remember one on Keighley Road at Colne but I don't think any of these were UCP.
I always thouyght that UCP places were a bit more grand like the restaurant they had in Burnley above where Oddies in now on St James Street..Nolic
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moh
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 13:28
I remember the Carla Beck milk bar on the High Street in Skipton.
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tripps
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 13:51
"I always thought that UCP places were a bit more grand "
That would be my recollection too. I remember one in High Street Manchester, where they had waitress service, and enormous cutlery. Steak and cowheel pie was what we would now call their 'signature dish'. Does anyone still use cowheel?
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 14:50
Cally milk bar in Barlick was beside Wine Bar???
HERB
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Sunray10
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 14:56
Steak without the cowheel for me I think. The thought of anything like that puts me right off..........yuk.
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Callunna
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 15:38
quote:
Herb wrote:
Cally milk bar in Barlick was beside Wine Bar???
Yes indeed, though the wine bar is of course relatively new and Joyce's has a different layout inside. My memory may be playing tricks - was the Paragon Library where the wine bar is now and if not, then what other shops were there in the 1960s? |
Another
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 16:16
Colin Pollards gents outfitters was where or near where the Paragon Library was. Nolic
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HerbSG
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 16:21
Seem to recall a sweet shop (maybe part of the milk bar).
HERB
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Another
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 16:28
I think they also sold sweets at the milk bar. the best sweet shop though was Cowgills further down Skipton Road - opposite the new church. Nolic
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Sunray10
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 17:48
There was a bus company in Colne in the 60s called Cowgill's Coaches. I think they only had three coaches. A friend of mine has the surname "Cowgill".
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Bradders
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 19:32
Was the UCP on Every Street opposite the back entrance to the market ?
I can't place Clarks Chemist...but I can place Clarks Ironmongers in Leeds Road (I know it's not relevant though)......
I seem to remember a UCP shop just at the bottom of Railway Street , but I could be mistaken....
MY Grand parents lived at no 56 Every Street (where the Mosque is now )..They were next door to Alec Croasdale's Electrical shop.
I perhaps ought to put this on the "Tripe " Forum , but I'm on here now so.......
My Grandad used to LOVE his Honeycomb tripe , raw with vinegar....but I also remember Grandma thinly slicing large onions and keeping a jar of them steeping in Vinegar on the dining room table for Grandpa to "Snack" on ! ......
The house was always open to visitors and they got though Industrial quantities of PG tips.....
Grandpa used to call it...." BEST CAFE I' NELSON "...there was always somebody "In" too !
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Posted - 14/12/2010 : 22:54
Yes Bradders I think you are correct. The UCP cafe was at the back of the old market, roughly where Clarks Ironmonger is and Whitworth chemists. Clarks was originally on Leeds Road, or was it just off Scotland Road (Russell Street). I'm not too sure about that. I am told, by my mother, that there was a UCP cafe on Netherfield Road, though it could have been on Railway Street, a short distance away.
I remember Croasdale's Electrical shop; they later moved into the Arndale Centre.
Yes tripe, I believe, was often surved with onions and plenty of vinegar, the vinegar soaking into the honeycombs.
I've no doubt you Granddads house was 'the best cafe in town'. What wonderful memories. I don't think that sort of hospitality exists today. Or you what be hard put to find it at any rate. Thanks for sharing those memories. Cheers.
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TripeAcademy
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Posted - 15/12/2010 : 05:06
Check http://www.unitedcattleproducts.co.uk
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U.C.P. - United Cattle Products - Cafes/Milk Bars.
