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Your childhood memories of bolton town centre
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42 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 15:58
Norpig
Nat Lofthouse
spot on Bounceyboltonbonce wrote:Was that in Silverwell street?
44 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 16:03
Cajunboy
Frank Worthington
I remember when you coudn't buy a pizza or kebab in Bolton.
Aristotle's restaurant and The Golden Lion were the height of sophistication.
The Beachcomber was the place to be seen.
Aristotle's restaurant and The Golden Lion were the height of sophistication.
The Beachcomber was the place to be seen.
45 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 16:11
Guest
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Used to play table tennis there every Wednesday. The guy that taught us must have been in his 90'sNorpig wrote:used to spend a lot of time in here playing 5 a side, badminton and squash on occasion, everyone recognise it?
46 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 16:17
Sluffy
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Norpig wrote:used to spend a lot of time in here playing 5 a side, badminton and squash on occasion, everyone recognise it?
I played 5-a-side there as well and also watched Bolton's basketball team (The Hawks) when they had their one and only season in the National League -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%E2%80%9384_National_Basketball_League_season
I used to also go underage drinking at near by Wood Street snooker club and play at Bolton Chess club also on Wood Street.
Happy days.
47 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 17:29
Banks of the Croal
Frank Worthington
Don't remember going into Town much until i was a teenager, we had quite a few of what we called
The Flicks, Picture Houses out of Town. The Carlton aka The Mount on Mount st. Halliwell, The Palladium, Higher Bridge st. The Crompton on Crompton Way next to The Castle Pub, they were only cheap about a Tanner at most
.
Also one of my favourite places Moss st. Baths, Sluffy and a few of the other Oldtimers should remember that place.
The Town Centre was for later when i could hold my Drink
The Flicks, Picture Houses out of Town. The Carlton aka The Mount on Mount st. Halliwell, The Palladium, Higher Bridge st. The Crompton on Crompton Way next to The Castle Pub, they were only cheap about a Tanner at most
.Also one of my favourite places Moss st. Baths, Sluffy and a few of the other Oldtimers should remember that place.
The Town Centre was for later when i could hold my Drink
48 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 17:58
Sluffy
Admin
Banks of the Croal wrote:Don't remember going into Town much until i was a teenager, we had quite a few of what we called
The Flicks, Picture Houses out of Town. The Carlton aka The Mount on Mount st. Halliwell, The Palladium, Higher Bridge st. The Crompton on Crompton Way next to The Castle Pub, they were only cheap about a Tanner at most
Also one of my favourite places Moss st. Baths, Sluffy and a few of the other Oldtimers should remember that place.
The Town Centre was for later when i could hold my Drink
I do indeed.
Every Sunday morning when I was little my father used to take me and my older brother (who could swim) to Moss Street. Although they spent a lot of time trying to teach me I was simply could not get the hang of it.
It wasn't helped much when at junior school we had to go once a week to Whitecroft Road School to use their swimming pool, and the swimming teacher at that time used to make us line up by height at the edge of the pool and jump in.
Being on the tall side for my age meant me lining up along the deep end and I guess the thinking back then was that kids would either sink or swim!
I was petrified of having to do this and twisted myself in mid jump to try and catch hold of the wall the best I could on my way down.
The funny thing is though not once did it ever enter my mind to refuse - no one ever said no to the teacher back then.
I eventually learned to swim in the first year of my secondary school at Bridgeman Street baths and have loved swimming ever since.
49 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 18:02
Boggersbelief
Nat Lofthouse
Barb Dwyer wrote:Used to play table tennis there every Wednesday. The guy that taught us must have been in his 90'sNorpig wrote:used to spend a lot of time in here playing 5 a side, badminton and squash on occasion, everyone recognise it?
Was it Bonce?
50 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 18:26
Norpig
Nat Lofthouse
i grew up in Halliwell and went to Moss St Baths all the time, it would have been the late 70's and early 80's. By that time it was a bit of a dumpBanks of the Croal wrote:Don't remember going into Town much until i was a teenager, we had quite a few of what we called
The Flicks, Picture Houses out of Town. The Carlton aka The Mount on Mount st. Halliwell, The Palladium, Higher Bridge st. The Crompton on Crompton Way next to The Castle Pub, they were only cheap about a Tanner at most
Also one of my favourite places Moss st. Baths, Sluffy and a few of the other Oldtimers should remember that place.
The Town Centre was for later when i could hold my Drink
51 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 18:42
boltonbonce
Nat Lofthouse
Boggersbelief wrote:Barb Dwyer wrote:Used to play table tennis there every Wednesday. The guy that taught us must have been in his 90'sNorpig wrote:used to spend a lot of time in here playing 5 a side, badminton and squash on occasion, everyone recognise it?
Was it Bonce?
52 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 18:57
Banks of the Croal
Frank Worthington
It was never Posh
My early days were spent up the bottom end of Halliwell/School Hill area, we had lot of family round there, I can remember a lot of Slum clearance and the building of Skagen Court, even that's long gone now.
My early days were spent up the bottom end of Halliwell/School Hill area, we had lot of family round there, I can remember a lot of Slum clearance and the building of Skagen Court, even that's long gone now.
53 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 19:02
Sluffy
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Banks of the Croal wrote:It was never Posh
My early days were spent up the bottom end of Halliwell/School Hill area, we had lot of family round there, I can remember a lot of Slum clearance and the building of Skagen Court, even that's long gone now.
Not that far from me then.
I remember Skagen Court being built also - and all the sum clearance around those parts.
I lived a bit more Merehall way
Happy times.
54 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 20:12
bwfc71
Ivan Campo
Anyone else remember the Olympus Grill on Churchgate?
55 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 20:22
Sluffy
Admin
bwfc71 wrote:Anyone else remember the Olympus Grill on Churchgate?
Of course we do.
Had my first taste of foods like moussaka and chicken chasseur in there.
Couldn't believe it when they went on to open a chippy!
56 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 20:31
wessy
El Hadji Diouf
For the older end, outside the Odeon was were you met for a first date, then it was the Navada or the Palais on a Saturday night.
Newport street was shoe shop heaven and the arcade leading from the Octagon onto Newport street was quite posh with Cantors furniture store and no graffiti.
Newport street was shoe shop heaven and the arcade leading from the Octagon onto Newport street was quite posh with Cantors furniture store and no graffiti.
57 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 21:47
whatsgoingon
Frank Worthington
Just after I left school I bumped into a girl I'd fancied at school for ages in the Nevada and ended up with her all night (in the Nevada not went home with).wessy wrote:For the older end, outside the Odeon was were you met for a first date, then it was the Navada or the Palais on a Saturday night.
Newport street was shoe shop heaven and the arcade leading from the Octagon onto Newport street was quite posh with Cantors furniture store and no graffiti.
On a Saturday we used to do the Saturday matinee at the odeon then over to the Nevada for the afternoon. If you were lucky you got to do the spotlight with someone
58 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 21:58
Sluffy
Admin
I hated the Nevada!
I couldn't skate and my mates used to love grabbing me and leaving me in the centre of the floor when the announcer asked for everyone to clear the dancefloor so that they could do some show or other.
They used to piss their sides laughing waiting for the 'bouncers' to come and wheel me off the floor whilst everybody else where laughing at me and one or two other poor bastards whose mates had done the same trick to them.
Another story about the Nevada was that I knew a girl who was having an affair with the organist there (Ron I think he was called?).
She was similar age to me and he must have been a good twenty years older than her.
I couldn't see the attraction for her at all?
She went on to marry a Bolton celebrity (who I best not mention by name) who was also considerably older than her too!
Live and let live I guess!
I couldn't skate and my mates used to love grabbing me and leaving me in the centre of the floor when the announcer asked for everyone to clear the dancefloor so that they could do some show or other.
They used to piss their sides laughing waiting for the 'bouncers' to come and wheel me off the floor whilst everybody else where laughing at me and one or two other poor bastards whose mates had done the same trick to them.
Another story about the Nevada was that I knew a girl who was having an affair with the organist there (Ron I think he was called?).
She was similar age to me and he must have been a good twenty years older than her.
I couldn't see the attraction for her at all?
She went on to marry a Bolton celebrity (who I best not mention by name) who was also considerably older than her too!
Live and let live I guess!
59 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 22:01
karlypants
Nat Lofthouse
I had a pint of that last night funnily enough.
60 Re: Your childhood memories of bolton town centre Thu Jul 21 2016, 22:16
whatsgoingon
Frank Worthington
I just used to fly round as fast as I could and the sides or some poor bastard in the way were my brakes. It was hilarious watching people try and walk down the stairs from the bar pissed on skatesSluffy wrote:I hated the Nevada!
I couldn't skate and my mates used to love grabbing me and leaving me in the centre of the floor when the announcer asked for everyone to clear the dancefloor so that they could do some show or other.
They used to piss their sides laughing waiting for the 'bouncers' to come and wheel me off the floor whilst everybody else where laughing at me and one or two other poor bastards whose mates had done the same trick to them.
Another story about the Nevada was that I knew a girl who was having an affair with the organist there (Ron I think he was called?).
She was similar age to me and he must have been a good twenty years older than her.
I couldn't see the attraction for her at all?
She went on to marry a Bolton celebrity (who I best not mention by name) who was also considerably older than her too!
Live and let live I guess!
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