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[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

Anyone remember Adam West Boutique    just up from the station clock

Yep, bought a purple suit there in 1972/3 with 3inch matching platform boots!

Wore them to a job interview the next year, and got the job!!

Was that a vacant post as Huggy Bear's PA...?

 

[itbegan]

Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?

Your going old school now!!!

Remember the ABC's?

I used to buy badges from there on a Friday night on my way home from school, do you remember the Wimpy on George Street and the old library

[distancetraveller]

Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?

Your going old school now!!!

Remember the ABC's?

I used to by badges from there on a Friday night on my way home from school, do you remember the Wimpy on George Street and the old library

I have a book about George Best that my mum ermmmmmm forgot to return - Christ knows what the fine is up to nowadays 

[taxi Phil]

Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?

Your going old school now!!!

Remember the ABC's?

I used to by badges from there on a Friday night on my way home from school, do you remember the Wimpy on George Street and the old library

Had a fling with a waitress from the Wimpy. She had nice buns.......

[SW]

The Royal Thorn in Withy.

What's the latest on the Bricklayers and Orange Tree?

[fatcat22363]

Hi haven't been to Hale in 30 yrs. Had my first drink in the 'Bleeders', the Bleeding Wolf and was caught by the cops for being 17yrs old. What happened to it/what is there now. Also the Station was great in Hale. Any news on what is there now or were they demolished? Cheers! An oldtimer with happy memories.

[OldhamAlty]

Hi haven't been to Hale in 30 yrs. Had my first drink in the 'Bleeders', the Bleeding Wolf and was caught by the cops for being 17yrs old. What happened to it/what is there now. Also the Station was great in Hale. Any news on what is there now or were they demolished? Cheers! An oldtimer with happy memories.

Small road there now called Wolf Grange. Just houses on it.

[jiminlondon]

Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?

I even remember when it was called the Pop Inn

[Timperley The Best]

Also lost the following night clubs , jeeves, chequers , check inn which became squires and r place

[Mick]

The Orange Tree was certainly open last night.......no doubt about that !

The Bleeding Wolf Building still stands (like the Cheshire Cheese does)......one is a fancy apartment, the other a heating engineers head office

[jhcorbett]

If you include shops then there was Radio Shack / Tandy opposite the train station.
That shop along with Rumbelows and possibly Zodiac Toys on George Street were the few shops that used to sell games for the Atari 2600 home computer systemanium in the 80's. Games like 'Q-bert'.

Lazy, crazy days.

[Hale Alty]

Also lost the following night clubs , jeeves, chequers , check inn which became squires and r place

Check Inn (previously Cezanne's) is still there at Totty's lap dancing bar (a friend told me).

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

Anyone else recall Streets Ahead Records?

I even remember when it was called the Pop Inn

So do I, Jim.

Wasn't it located on Lloyd Street, approximately where Sainsbury's is these days?

[Ian Harwood (Hale Alty)]

Them's was the days. Streets Ahead was a husband and wife business that grasped the idea of punk before the other shops in town and you could buy some quite obscure stuff there. The shop was next to where the 263 and 264 buses terminated just where the Sainsbury's car park wall fronts onto Lloyd Street.

Syke's Records was a pretty good shop too and a much cooler place to go that Peter J, Swales. And the woman in there was the spitting image of Ann Nightingale. Of course the coolect place to buy your vinyl was Black Sedan on Oxford Road near the university in the days before they moved into the university precinct.

[Ian Harwood (Hale Alty)]

I don't suppose there's any danger of Trafford Council reducing business rates any time soon is there. 

There should be a law that if landlords haven't let a shop after twelve months the council should be allowed to take a lease at a peppercorn rent and sublet to local businesses. I also think part of the problem in Altrincham is that some landlords would rather leave a place unlet until the market turns then they can sell the whole site for redevelopment. I'm sure that's what's happening with the old John Hawker/McDonalds corner.