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Sunray10
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13/12/2010
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21:58
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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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tripps
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Posted - 15/12/2010 : 08:57
Brilliant site - thanks for posting. Despite my name and its alleged link to this product, I have never even tasted the stuff, and would take some persuading to do so. Now cow heel is a diferent matter. It seems to disappear during cooking and just adds depth and richness.
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Tizer
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Posted - 15/12/2010 : 10:15
That picture on the Buildings page of the UCP site showing the chimney coming down will get the steeplejacks foaming at the mouth!
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Sunray10
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Posted - 15/12/2010 : 18:19
Thanks for this brilliant link TripeAcademy. Some good memories on here. I like the photo of the chimney stack falling. Great!!
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mporter
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Posted - 16/12/2010 : 05:11
I worked for Joyce for a few years when I was in my early teens - I used to work all day saturday and during the school holidays.
Margaret Porter |
Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 16/12/2010 : 06:45
Swifty has picked up the falling stack already!
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk |
Sunray10
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Posted - 16/12/2010 : 15:33
I wonder if Fred Dibnah is still bringing down chimneys in the great beyond. He wouldn't have it any other way, I'm sure.
R.Spencer. |
swifty
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Posted - 16/12/2010 : 19:39
sunray one things for sure if their is a t,other side like,,you know,,,, we wont know till we get there cause i dont know of anyone coming back to tell us what goes on ,,,i hope he is doing because if i ever get up yon im going to have the best darn high reach known to man,,, ha ha and just to get you all thinking if there is out up yonder how full must it be ?
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 17/12/2010 : 05:19
They have a special section for steeplejerks....
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk |
swifty
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Posted - 22/12/2010 : 21:08
is there any hse men about stanley,,,or are they on t,other side,,
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 23/12/2010 : 06:07
They are all inspecting furnaces, you know where!
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk |
Tizer
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Posted - 23/12/2010 : 11:26
If they're not inspecting them down there they'll be inspecting furnaces up here to keep warm I'll bet!
At this time of year do you miss that comfy chair alongside the Bancroft boiler Stanley?
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handlamp
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Posted - 23/12/2010 : 14:57
Swifty, they never get too congested, the Good Lord recycles 'em.
Edited by - handlamp on 23/12/2010 2:58:46 PM
Ted |
Stanley
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 08:01
Tiz, as Ted will tell you, there is no colder place on earth than the front of a boiler that's sucking in enormous amounts of air through the firehole door! You always had to have the boiler house door open and the draught coming in was cruel! If you stood near enough to the boiler to get radiated heat you had freezing air blowing on your back. My firebeater used to come into the engine house for a warm.
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk |
Tizer
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Posted - 24/12/2010 : 12:42
Now I hadn't thought of that. I'd never make a firebeater, I'm not well enough insulated!
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Sunray10
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Posted - 31/12/2010 : 17:04
I suppose you could say Slaters Icecream emporium in Nelson is a surviving milk bar. Whenever I go there I feel as if I'm back in the 60s again. That bloke makes a good cup of tea as well.
R.Spencer. |