o/t I remember the days when Swindon...

[@MacPhlea]

The original indoor market

[ronnie21]

Reg or Ronnie.......can you remember the Tartan cafe in Commercial Road?
Vaguly remember was run for years by an excentric Scotsman............can remember pinball machines and a strong smell of coffee............but not a lot else.

Don't remember than one, do remember that large pet shop in Commmercial Road, and Morses department store in Regent Street.  Bit like McIlroys, they also had a guy who came round the villages with his Morses catalogue and you could buy from him and pay weekly.  That's what my mum used to do, and hide away when he came knocking each week!!!!

[Arriba]

sid the kid was still out and about in wroughton until recently.he was a regular at wroughton games at the weekends and in the club after.age is catching up with him and he isn't out as much nowadays.

mad rad was another bloke who was in town daily around the late 80's to early 90's.
he'd push a trolley around full of junk and have shouting arguements with his imaginary friend.

[leefer]

Bretts was the pet shop.
Ref arriba....remember him,would walk to Coopers(EMR now)....remember his shoes were massive!

[Arriba]

that's the fella

[Reg Smeeton]

Reg or Ronnie.......can you remember the Tartan cafe in Commercial Road?
Vaguly remember was run for years by an excentric Scotsman............can remember pinball machines and a strong smell of coffee............but not a lot else.

Not one I went in...another was The Ring in Cavendish Square, where I used to go when skivving off school (Park)....The Ring was pretty cool, good range of pinballs and that frisson of excitement, of knowing a few faces, who were proper naughty in a Cockney sort of way.

[DiV]

Sid is still around......walks around with a hat complete with feather.....muttering cuckoo.
Not seen him for about a year though.

If its the same mad person who walks around with a hat complete with a feather and muttering cuckoo, then he threatened to kill me once!

[leefer]

If its the same mad person who walks around with a hat complete with a feather and muttering cuckoo, then he threatened to kill me once!

Was a nutcase when younger...led a gang of Teddy Boys i was reliably informed that terrorised Regent Street in the 50's.

[DiV]

When I was at college he was always around the top of town cuckooing away.

[70stownender]

berti mee said to bill shankley,, have you heard of the boys from highbury, shanks said no, i dont think so, but ive heard of the swindon aggro             and   we're forever blowing bubbles pritty bubbles in the air,they fly so high,  nearly reach the sky, and like west ham they fade and die, bristols always running,oxfords running too,so are the swindon boot boys,running after you ,du,du,du du du, SWINDON , SWINDON,                                                                                       GOOD DAYS 70S

[70stownender]

PETER DOWNSBORO ROD THOMAS JOHN TROLLOP STAN HARLAND ARFUR DOBIN HORSFIELD DON ROGERS BUT TO NAME A FEW 20K CROWDS LESS THAN A POUND TO GET IN 'COME ON YOU CARTERTON BOYS'

[leefer]

berti mee said to bill shankley,, have you heard of the boys from highbury, shanks said no, i dont think so, but ive heard of the swindon aggro             and   we're forever blowing bubbles pritty bubbles in the air,they fly so high,  nearly reach the sky, and like west ham they fade and die, bristols always running,oxfords running too,so are the swindon boot boys,running after you ,du,du,du du du, SWINDON , SWINDON,                                                                                       GOOD DAYS 70S

[Hitchinred]

And Zodiac Toys!

My Dad owned the toy shop between Rhapsody and Wigfalls with the train set in the window.  Also remember adver man expanding his vocabulary to include "Late Special"

[ronnie21]

If its the same mad person who walks around with a hat complete with a feather and muttering cuckoo, then he threatened to kill me once!

That's Sid!!!

[ronnie21]

mad rad was another bloke who was in town daily around the late 80's to early 90's.
he'd push a trolley around full of junk and have shouting arguements with his imaginary friend.

Remember him well, everybody used to avoid him like the plague!  Language was colourful to say the least.  Was in Nottons in Manny Road one day when he came in, complete with trolley full of scrap metal he had picked up.  He cursed most people in the caff, smelt like a sewer rat, then asked the lady serving for a duster so he could clean the seat before he sat on it.!!  He used to live at the old folks home in Moredon but there were so many complaints about him the council moved him on.