Reg Smeeton
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« Reply #195 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 18:32:51 » |
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Sorry for the impersonal name - just a small team of us rather than one person!
We do have lots of Queens Park pics - I'll see what we have.
In the 90s those terrapins were seemingly wild in the ponds confusing drunks and students...
I can imagine fB thinking he might be living in a real Ninja Turtle world... |
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« Reply #196 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 19:26:15 » |
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Surely Bretts was Commercial Road...not Cromwell Street? |
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« Reply #197 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 19:30:55 » |
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Hinders pet shop
Cloud full of Bananas
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« Reply #198 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 20:38:33 » |
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This is one for the oldies. My memory may be playing tricks on me but I have a vague recollection of there being animals on display ( a very mini mini zoo ) in one of the larger department stores - McIlroys / Debenhams building in the late mid / 60s.
Can anyone confirm or am i talking shit as usual?
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« Reply #199 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 20:46:32 » |
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This is one for the oldies. My memory may be playing tricks on me but I have a vague recollection of there being animals on display ( a very mini mini zoo ) in one of the larger department stores - McIlroys / Debenhams building in the late mid / 60s.
Can anyone confirm or am i talking shit as usual?
I remember there being a big pet shop of some sort on the corner where McDonalds is now. Was that Hinders? They had a fucking big tank full of Pirhana's in there which were Ace. |
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #200 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 20:47:08 » |
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Surely Bretts was Commercial Road...not Cromwell Street?
I dunno, it's next to Normans in that photo. |
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leefer
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« Reply #201 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 20:51:50 » |
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I dunno, it's next to Normans in that photo.
Maybe there were two stores..the one i remember in Commercial Road was bigger i seem to remember. |
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« Reply #202 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 20:54:48 » |
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Maybe there were two stores..the one i remember in Commercial Road was bigger i seem to remember.
There was certainly a Bretts in Commercial road. I poked my fingers through a gerbils cage in there when I was about 8 and the little cunt bit me. It bled like fuck and I got a bollocking from the old dear. |
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« Reply #203 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 21:14:46 » |
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Maybe there were two stores..the one i remember in Commercial Road was bigger i seem to remember.
I'm with you there, thought it was a double fronted shop. |
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« Reply #204 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 21:23:57 » |
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I'm with you there, thought it was a double fronted shop.
Almost certainly moved from Cromwell Street to Commercial Road then i reckon...bigger premises. |
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« Reply #205 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 21:52:14 » |
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I remember there being a big pet shop of some sort on the corner where McDonalds is now. Was that Hinders?
They had a fucking big tank full of Pirhana's in there which were Ace.
Was the pet shop called Toomer's? May well be talking b*llocks though. |
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« Reply #206 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 21:55:27 » |
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Was the pet shop called Toomer's? May well be talking b*llocks though.
There is/was a Toomer's pet shop in Ciren, so highly possible. edit: in fact, there is still a Toomers in Swindon http://www.toomers.co.uk/contactus.php |
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« Reply #207 on: Monday, January 24, 2011, 22:25:23 » |
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the one on commercial road was definately called bretts.i remember the goldfish were kept in a tiled pond which was in the floor of the shop.
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SwindonLibrary
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« Reply #208 on: Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 11:00:41 » |
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What about this pet shop? Hinders - on Commercial Road. Not sure of date (1960s?): Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swindonlocal/5387318128/I had a quick look in our collection of old phone books and directories and Bretts was also on COmmercial Road in the 1980s. |
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