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Linda | Report | 13 Jan 2008 01:18 |
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Can anyone from Newcastle recall Van Allans who were on Northumberland St near C&A. |
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Jackie | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:20 |
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Nite Nite Karen so am i |
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Desperate Housewife ♥ | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:19 |
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Shame Jackie I think we would have got on in Yates. Anyway going to bed now so nite nite. |
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Jackie | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:17 |
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im 61 so you werent even born when i was going in there |
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Desperate Housewife ♥ | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:16 |
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41 nearly 42 and no it's not rude I don't mind at all/ |
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Jackie | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:15 |
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dont think so Karen if its not a rude question how old are you |
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Desperate Housewife ♥ | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:14 |
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No, but remeber the Salisbury, the place next door, rotters and gilly's. |
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Jackie | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:12 |
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any one remember the long bar and rembrandts in manchester |
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Desperate Housewife ♥ | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:12 |
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Hope one of them wasn't me LOL |
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Jackie | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:10 |
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i went in one on market st once and it was full of prostitutes tramps and winos |
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Desperate Housewife ♥ | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:08 |
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Jackie remember going in Yates when about 17 and watching a prostitute picking up men, I was fascinated, she was quite old as well but managed to pull some one lol |
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Jackie | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:05 |
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my father banned me from going in yates said that they were full of unsavory characters but used to go anyway and how did he know who went in lol |
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Jackie | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:03 |
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australian white wine sugar and hot water brill my daughter makes them for me every christmas |
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Desperate Housewife ♥ | Report | 13 Jan 2008 00:01 |
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Yes Jackie, remember blobs, think they were warm white wine with sugar, and remember sawdust. Haven't been for years. |
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Jackie | Report | 12 Jan 2008 23:59 |
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yates wine shops used to be known as blob shops had sawdust on the floor have realy gone upmarket now |
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Desperate Housewife ♥ | Report | 12 Jan 2008 23:55 |
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Jackie I remember seeing animals on Tib st, great. Also May Ashton market still going. |
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CATHKIN | Report | 12 Jan 2008 23:55 |
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I worked in Binns in Dumfries and Telfers in Glasgow as Saturday girl --both gone now, |
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Joanne in Burgess Hill™ | Report | 12 Jan 2008 23:54 |
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sorry maddie moo, i edited post just as you posted yours |
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Desperate Housewife ♥ | Report | 12 Jan 2008 23:54 |
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No May not from the same area but I remember Yates Wine shops, though not soup kitchen, on Oldham street. |
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Maddiecow | Report | 12 Jan 2008 23:53 |
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Oh I remember bejams = they either changed to icelands or became pubs. |
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