Comments about adelaide

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cyril bagshaw: Hi John I believe you have captured the feelings of most of the contributors to this page most eloquently.No matter how far away from the nest some of us have flown, those childhood images are still......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Peter As an ex Soaking pit worker, you would probably remember Johnny Jaques, my father in law.He and Venice emigrated with us to Adelaide in 1980. All the best to guys in Woolongong. Cyril B...

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Dean, Yes, next to the newsagents. I wish we could get some treacle toffee in Adelaide.....and some Blackpool rock too..and while I'm at it, a few of Morris's meat and potato pies.!!!! Cheers.... Cyril........

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Peter (nsw) Small world isnt it? I had the greengrocery business opposite Boundary road on Fiddlers lane amd my Mum and Dad had the fish and chip shop next door until I opened the shop......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

cyril bagshaw: Hi Anne So glad you have made it to the Ancestry site, its like Aladdins cave, gems popping up everywhere. The curly headed child of course is non other than yours truly. Must say, the "mop" has......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Cyril I have just been on Irlam & Cadishead Ancestry site and joined. I noticed the picture of Irlam Band and have now seen 20 Row for the first time. I think......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Stuart As an ex Fiddlers Laneite now in Adelaide,I will tell Debbie ( my niece)that you have found this active little site. She is now living in Queensland and has made some very interesting contributions......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Karina, Welcome to the site.There must be some magnetic attraction of that little place on the banks of the River Irwell for so many people of all ages and from all over to look back......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Anne, Yes, Jim is Millie and Dick's son.He has 3 children and 5 grandchildren. Wakefield's chippy and Mrs Milner's little hardware business no longer exist, and is now the site of the Irlam Library, photos you......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hello Anne in Ontario, I married Ellen and Jim Massey from Cadishead married her sister Edith. You may not know, but there is a sister site to this one,"Citynoise these things no longer exist" and I have......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Andrew Thanks for adding Dom's photos.The frontage of the Rialto cinema is very little different from when it was The Globe picture house. Even the Large door to the right of the main entrance is......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne Thank you for your kind thoughts. Yes it was a large blue van that I made my deliveries in, but finished up concentrating building up the business which I had just transferred to The......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

cyril bagshaw: Hi Anne, Yes it was Joan, the lady who wore riding breeches and leather leggins as she trotted round the district with her nippy little horse and buggy ladling milk from the churn. [[img:26749]] And here is another......

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Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Cyril Is the Beswick's you refer to connected to a shop on Liverpool Road near Gallier's sweet shop, I seem to recall someone called Joan Beswick? Do you remember just past the GPO......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma Great,our weather will hopefully be a lot kinder to you when we are able to meet up in Adelaide in June. Our Email address is cyrilab@optusnet.com.au. All the best ......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hi Cyril, I'm planning a long weekend in June to Adelaide, to see my cousin - maybe we could catch up for a coffee?...

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Deb Simpkins (nee Massey): Hi Natalie, I will let Stephen know you remember him. He lives in Adelaide with partner Cath and daughter Jessica. In what part of Aus do you live? cheers, Deb (ps: Norma must be referring to another Deb who......

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Deb Simpkins: Hi Norma, as I remember it, Oak Ave wasn't very long so I wonder if our grandparents knew each other? I will ask my dad and see if he remembers Tommy and May.. Bolton... was......

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Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Cyril I think it must be the younger Dr Walker considering the messages above. How are things in Adelaide, we didn't get the wind as bad as forecast here it seems to have affected......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Graham Kingsley: I have discovered quite recently, possibly in the last couple of days that Adelaide Cricket Club have become a Internet Service Provider and competing on the world stage. It does show that the Australians......

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Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Cyril My Dad remembers your shop on Fidlers Lane, we lived on Roscoe Road with Galliers sweet shop on the corner that was where I spent my pocket money. I also remember the......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, Before we sold the greengrocery business in Fiddlers lane which we ran for 33 years from my demobbing from the RAF in 1947, and left for the sunny shores of Adelaide in 1980, we......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, I do remember your mother June, in fact I have a copy of an old photo taken in about 1949 of a group of the local shopkeepers which included your mum, and your grandparents.......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Cyril Lovely to read your comments, my grandparents both lived to a grand old age after they had retired to live in Flixton. Do you remember my mother June at all? They only......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, I knew your grandparents Wilfed (Wilf) Platt and his wife from as far back as 1936 when they had the radio repair shop in the old Twenty Row shops before they moved to......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

cyril bagshaw: Hi Norma, Very sorry to hear the loss of your husband...we hope you too have good family and friends around you. As for snow in Adelaide, the nearest we got to it was a few......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

cyril bagshaw: Hi Norma, Tradition has it that the city of Adelaide has this Annual Christmas Pageant with these magnificent floats and bands heading the spectacular entrance of Father Christmas and his team of reindeer. Sorry, but no......

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Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Father Christmas used to come around Harewood Road when my children were little. My daughter (who is 22 now), was petrified!! We have a different version in Oz, being summer it doesn't go dark......

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Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma, Yes, we have enjoyed driving through the Adelaide hills up to Hahndorf village many times.We live 5 miles from Glenelg on Henley Beach road. I went to Irlam Central school with a......

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Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Scratchings .. mmm ... (thought that was our local twang), we got them too from our chippy opposite the Cadishead Wesleyan Church - Fish and chips in OZ is not quite the same, you......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Norma, Greetings from Adelaide ( arrived here in september 1980 ),and many thanks for your condolences on the passing of our much loved son Brian.He leaves his wife Jen and their 2 lovely children, Chris......

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cyril bagshaw: Hello Sheila Almost spot on,we had the shops in Fiddlers lane from 1947 to our families journey to Adelaide in 1980. I remember your mother very well and grandmother in Mond road.Is'nt it now a......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Cyril B: Greetings from Adelaide As an old Irlamite who started life there in 1925 til having another go here in the sunshine in 1980,this site has been most enjoyable to visit.I have shared many of the experiences......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Schrodinger's Cat: Actually the construction of this building started in late 1989 . It was supposed to be a 58 storey high office tower called the Bay Adelaide Tower. It was......

in response to: White Elephant Down by Tom Miller

theavs: sane has been a huge influence on me as a writer, Ive read over and over the story of sanesmith in the art of getting over by espo..truely inspiring and touching..i'd like to know more about......

in response to: Sane Smith: Puttin' the Green in Greenpoint by Peter

Elicar: I once saw one at Adelaide Street! It was hard to get scared with all the cameras and movie crew around!...

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Elicar: [[img:9082]] This is the Lumsden Building at Yonge and Adelaide in Toronto. It was built in 1909, designed by JA McKenzie. Apparently, it is missing a big cornice moulding on top! It must have been removed......

in response to: Office Building by Peter

Elicar: Discovering Citynoise made me more aware of my surroundings. I was crossing Front on Yonge going north yesterday afterwork when I noticed this slim and extremely tall building. I said to myself, "Where did that......

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Raoul Davachi: I'm a bike courier, and I am so god damn tired of people in cars, or worse, people in suits walking on sidewalks who think they rule the world. I was talking to the......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool