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maybe
but when you are trying to get a decent pic to compare to older pics they tend to get in the way
I was astonished to see how big the trees in the car park by Yates are
In just 30 to 40 years

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I can't believe thay have turned lovely Grange Rd into that "Mall" thing. "Malls are fine if there are lots of people, but when there is not it become the home of the dero's and druggies.

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Heres one for youze to ponder on! Does anyone remember the store in the early 90s-think it was where ßuperdrug is now?? A kind of department store, set on two levels. We think that the shopname was on a yellow background with black writing?

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Anyone got ant pics of top end of Grange rd, by Mc D`s is. I used to manage the butchers there in late 80`s, which was pulled down after i left (not because of me!!) due to being totally unsafe!


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This one?

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Brilliant Chris, thats the one, but had a different frontage when i managed it. Single door to the right and a long window across the left. Great cellars down below but completely gutted above, rotten to the core and demolished in the 90`s i think, well and truely after i left! Had a load of outbuildings at the rear that the builders, who constructed Yate`s, stored their tools in.
Used to have a deal with the manager of Mc D`s on a Saturday, where he gave all the staff FREE food ALL day as and when we wanted it in return for his sunday joint etc!!!!


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Chris, is that next to Mc D`s now, just that i can see a door to the left of butchers, and before Mc D`s wasnt there a pub years ago?? What year was this pic mate?


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Come to think of it, it cant be it because of the new construction above!! Do you know where in the precinct this would be now??


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The picture is from the 1947 Outline Plan book of 1947. The comment attached refers to "inappropriate development", referring to the new first floor reconstruction in the Art Deco style of the 1930's. It was just a couple of shops down the street from where McD's is now, which used to be the Grange Hotel. On the attached map, I think Dewhurst's was about No. 256 or 258. The big block, 246-230 was Robb's department store. No.220 is Woolworths. Hope that helps.

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Yeah chris, was about 256 / 258 as Mc D`s takes up the otherplots on the corner, but dont remember the new build above and to the left of the shop there is a door and sign saying `Dents the Cleaners` which doesnt sound like a pub to me! Sure it wasnt further down the road and later moved up to the top end where i worked? I also worked in the one in Milton Pavement, next to where Super Cigs is!

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Originally Posted by RUDEBOX
Heres one for youze to ponder on! Does anyone remember the store in the early 90s-think it was where ßuperdrug is now?? A kind of department store, set on two levels. We think that the shopname was on a yellow background with black writing?
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was it qs discount store?


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hi, was the dept store called parker franks?

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a few pics in Grange Rd the other day

what was Katech Computers on the cross is now The Gold Shop

Hamilton's is now closed

Primark moved into the old Woolworths

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Originally Posted by hoseman
Anyone got ant pics of top end of Grange rd, by Mc D`s is. I used to manage the butchers there in late 80`s, which was pulled down after i left (not because of me!!) due to being totally unsafe!


I was just thinking that was Dewhursts and then there it is in the next post! I seem to remember sawdust on the floor and a red and white striped awning.

A school friend of mine lived in Collingwood Road. I remember her moving out when they were getting demolished.

Anyone remember when Boots was near the top of Grange Road, on the corner of one of the roads leading off it, by Pykes the Jewellers? It was all dark wood inside with a big, wooden staircase to get upstairs.

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