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Great picture Geoff

Geoff - was the 'white' building the billiard hall ?

The white building was the cinema. Don't know the name though, having moved from spring view.

It was the Palace Cinema, spent many happy Saturday afternoons there. The fair used to be on the land behind the King Billy.

Nice one Geoff! Taken from the front door of The Platt Bridge Inn I assume? :-)

I can remember my mum going to that theatre to play Bingo, we lived directly across the road from it, in a flat over Bob Foster's Butchers, which later became a laundrette, and then Stephen's Solicitors. I can also see that little sweet shop next door to the palace that sold Tiger Nuts... I loved them!

This is a brilliant pic, Geoff...Thankyou for posting it.Have you seen this, Dennis Miller?

sorry, Dennis.....we must have sent in our comments almost at the sane time.....great minds think alike and all that! Isn't it a great pic?

Kenyons shop next to the Palace--used to have a hot drink
Bovril or OXO whilst waiting for the Billiard Hall to open on Saturday morning--sign of a mysspent youth.

I remember even earlier in the forties having a drink at Richard Balls Herbalist across from the Palace Cinema before visiting either the Billiard Hall or Cinema Happy days!

YOU COULD GET A PINT OF HOROUND (what ever that was)& A WOODBINE & MATCH AT RICHARD BALLS BETTER KNOWN AS THE LITTLE LADS ALE HOUSE. HIS DAUGHTER RAN IT FOR A FEW YEARS AFTER RICHARD PAST ON. FORGOT HOW MUCH THE PINT & WOODBINE WHERE.

The hours spent in the pictures on a Saturday morning and the stamping of feet when the baddies came on.

GREAT PIC GEOFF.WOODBINE AND A MATCH 2d ,5 PENNY PINT IN A PINT GLASS 5d,HORLICKS,BOVRIL,HOT VIMTO,4d,ACROSS THE ROAD IN THE BILLIARD HALL VIMTO 4d A BOTTLE ,2BOB AN HOUR TO PLAY SNOOKER.I USED TO SNEEK IN AS A KID TO WATCH THE MEN PLAY. STARS OF THE DAY WERE GEORGE NICHOLS,JACK GOVIN,DES MILER,BILL RICKETS,HENRY STEPHENS,DAVID MCQUILLAN,ALF ALLEN, TO NAME A FEW,IT WAS 3d IN THE PALACE SAT. MORNING, 6d SAT NIGHT ON THE FIRST TWO ROWS. 1 SHILLING ON THE OTHERS,IT WAS 6d,A SHILLING, AND 1 AND 3d IF YOU WENT UPSTAIRS.THATS IN THE MINERS HALL, IT WAS ALSO A DANCE HALL SSALLED THE SAVOY AND A BINGO HALL. AURTHER MOORE WON THE FIRST JACKPOT £25, HE WAS THE RICHEST MAN IN PLATT BRIDGE FOR A WHILE,THE SHOP ON THE CORNER SOLD 5 WOODBINES FOR 9d,

on the right side was a moterbike shop my mate harry street was nock through window in 60s ther a bit further down from dronys shop & highsons hair dressers

Remember all your comments John Bailey, the hot vimto and a woodbine at Dicky Balls you are a friend of my sister Linda I think

My grandparents were Mr and Mrs Kenyon, who owned the sweet shop, I was only a baby when my grandmother, by which time was widowed, turned the shop back into a house, I have only very vague memories of it, my grandparents were well known in Platt Bridge. I lived on Stanley Road for the first seven years of my life, and was involved in numerous walking days.

Where was the sweet shop?