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Runcorn Hill Memories
Posted on 10:19am Wednesday 18th November 2009
I often remember those war games at Runcorn hill, with a stick for a gun, or pretending to be cavemen, for a moment the whole landscape would change, and we would be back in prehistoric times hunting the lost dinosaurs of Weston, searching for the lost cavemen of the hill.
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Wanted New Town Memories
Posted on 2:10pm Sunday 1st November 2009
My latest project has the working title of The New Towner’s it is in celebration of forty years of the New Town being built.
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La Rendezvous
Posted on 9:42pm Tuesday 27th October 2009
The old town market café was called La Rendezvous, every Friday dinnertime I had the wonderful sausage chips and beans, the sausage were big thick pork ones, delicious.
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The Original Hobby Shop 1960s
Posted on 7:13pm Sunday 25th October 2009
I was the little boy who stopped on his way to school, to look in the Hobby Shop window, and was told off by teacher for being late. Through the misted up glass I could see lots of model aircraft and airfix models.
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Doris's
Posted on 6:55pm Sunday 25th October 2009
Doris’s Doris’s was a small shop on the corner in Devonshire Square Runcorn. They sold groceries and cooked meat and cheeses.
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Memories of Langdale Road (2)
Posted on 10:42am Monday 15th September 2008
One of the other shops I remember from childhood stood in Langdale Road and was called Stubbs's it was a little walk around store that sold almost everything from firelighters to bacon.
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Memories of Langdale Road Shops
Posted on 3:08pm Monday 18th August 2008
My Family were very poor in the sixties and seventies and could very rarely afford to decorate our house you don't notice things when you're a kid until you reach teenage years.
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The Oldest Sport in Runcorn?
Posted on 6:41pm Wednesday 27th February 2008
I am trying to find out which sport is the Oldest in Runcorn.
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What's In a Name?
Posted on 12:49pm Tuesday 29th January 2008
Gone are the good old days when our babies were called after grandparents and names were passed down the family line.
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History Repeats Itself?
Posted on 3:38pm Monday 14th January 2008
While trying to buy a hot water bottle for a very cold new bedroom, I suddenly realised that Great Britain was starting to look like an old episode of the Glums on black and white T. V.
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