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Zeke
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Back in the mid-1950s I used to frequent a book/toyshop in the heart of downtown Barnoldswick. Can't remember the name or street where the shop was located. Not only did they sell a myriad of books; they also sold toys, electric trains ect;. My last visit to that shop was a few days before Christmas, 1957. A friend of mine, Gloria Rogan came along with me. It happened to be snowing on that particular evening while both of us admired all the toys and books thinking how wonderful it would be to find some of those goodies under the Christnas tree. Memories :)
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Stanley
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 06:27
The Lawson Brothers from Yarlside had an interest in a Christian bookshop at about that time and I think in one incarnation it was in a cottage opposite teh Cross Keys. We covered it in an earlier topic. Try putting Lawson or Yarlside in the forum search.
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 07:37
There was such a shop on Frank Street - right hand side going down to Albert Road. Nolic
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thomo
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 09:31
That would have been "Harrisons" with a wide range of goods for sale, Books, Stationary,Artists materials, Meccano,Hornby and Dinky toys being among them.
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 10:03
That's it thomo, sold quality stuff. Nolic
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 15:41
Oh yes Harrisons remember that shop, bought many a book there, as well as my meccano set and a bako building set, an early kind of lego with small steel rods set into a green plastic board with fake building bricks. Last time i was home the shop was just closing down i think it was Donald Harrisons son who had it then that would be 2005. As time goes on i guess local business close down or owners retire. Along with Harrisons, Fodens, Paragon Library, Preston and Ashworth, Sneaths barbers, Shorrocks , Co-op, all good local places to shop. I remember the Co-op having small branches all over town some with butchers next door, I can think of Co-op`s on Gisburn/ Skipton road, Moseley St and next door to Laburnum House, any body know of any others ???
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 16:25
I loved my Bako building set! Thank you for bringing that memory back Roger.
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 16:42
There used to be Co-ops on Manchester Road near the police station and one near Boltons on Wellhouse Road.
Can anyone remember the building set with "real" miniture bricks, a trowel and cement that was like wallpaper paste. I had a pal who had one and I always wanted one. Nolic
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 17:07
My brother had one of those sets Nolic, it was wonderful. When you had built something you soaked the bricks and they all came apart again. There were even blueprint plans with it. Its probably still in the loft at my Mums house.
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 17:24
My brother had a bako set too. He collected toy soldiers and army equipment from Woolies and made army defences and broken down houses with his bricks. He neither joined the army or became a builder!!
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 19:01
Nolic, old chap you are thinking of Brickplayer i had one of those, i think Baco was the first of those things but Brickplayer was realy messy i think you had to run whatever you had built under the tap and then let it dry off, grate idea though, my dad bought it then forever complained when i played with it. I wonder what a mint Bako set in the box would be worth today.
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 21:25
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That would have been "Harrisons" with a wide range of goods for sale, Books, Stationary,Artists materials, Meccano,Hornby and Dinky toys being among them.
Thanks. They carried a wide selection of books, comics, art supplies-writing instruments (fountain pens) games/puzzles. Their Chrismas window display was especially appealing with all the decorations, lights & latest toys-books. I received books for Christmas, one was the illustrated British version of Dennis the Menace, Flash Gordon, Batman and an Enid Blyton Adventure novel, which I still have.
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Posted - 04/12/2009 : 23:17
Another. I think you are talking about "Lotts Blocks" These could be put together dry or with cement, I had these as a Kid, and then "Bayko" and later "Leggo", Happy Days. Almost every toy I owned came from that shop and Mr Harrisons Son was a classmate of mine, I still see him about and he kept the shop going until he retired, it is now a Ladies Hairdressers, A Bien, Thomo.
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Posted - 05/12/2009 : 06:18
Anyone remember 'Juneero'? It was a competitor against Meccano and you had shears and hole punches to make your own components. I had one but never got on with it because when you had made something that was it, you had to get fresh materials and start again.
Donald is still about. There was the big Co-op on Manchester Road next to the police station and the other main building in Cooperative Street, now flats.
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Posted - 05/12/2009 : 07:15
The shop was used by the Wesleyan Sunday school to purchase prize books for attendance etc. Very modern approach in that you were told that you were to get a prize then you went to Harrisons to choose the book. They supplied the lot to the church then you got your choosen book on prize day. Much better than getting a book you had read or didn't want. I recall once getting Treasure Island and it has remained a favourite of mine.
Its coming back now. Does anyone remember "Classics Illustrated" a comic type magazine based on classic stories with drawings just like the good comics - Tiger, Lion and Eagle. I think I'd read Treasure Island in this version hence getting the full novel. Also read Tale of Two Cities, Rob Roy, Last of the Mohicans, Moby Dick in these versions which then led me on to reading the real thing.
Slightly different level I used to enjoy the war comics that were about A5 size. Coloured front cover and black and white inside. Real beat em up stuff with tough Brit commandos taking on "Squareheads" and "Nips" ...very violent and non PC. They were done in series and me and my mates used to get different ones and swop.
Thanks for the info on the Brickbuilder and Lotts Blocks. I can now see why I never got one if my mum knew all about the mess involved!!.
Below Harrisons there used to be a DIY/hardware shop on the gable end to the street bejhind the main Co-op. One Christmas in the late 1950's they had a grotto upstairs and it was crammed full of toys, bikes, pedal cars etc that must have come as a job lot. I tried and tried to get my dad to take me to and persude him to buy something for me without success.
Anyone else remember the Co-op on Wellhouse Road? Nolic
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thomo
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Posted - 05/12/2009 : 08:51
The Co-ops that I remember were the ones on Co-operative st, the main one on Albert rd, Vic Wood ran the one on Manchester rd and his brother Sam tthe one on Mosely st, Church st was Lemmie Edmondsons butchers and there was one at the corner of Fernbank ave, two more were one opposite Gisburn rd school and another across from Rolls Royce, later there was one on Coates avenue. the stables were on West Close rd. Oddly enough i dont recall one on Wellhouse rd, the main Grocers on there being Patricks opposite the end of Wellhouse st.
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