General Chat

We were talking yesterday about the shops that used to be in Chichester. There was one in South Street called Russel Hillsdens where you could get round the end of the window and we had all been round there and stuck one arm and one leg out so we looked like Harry Worth.

Not recently mind.

I bet you all did it, but will you confess?

I've never done that......I've never been to Chichester.

It is a sad little thing you can do anywhere but, as with everything, Chichester is the best place.

Yes, Sharron, I'm afraid I have! One boozy evening with my mates on Sunderland high street in the late sixties. We'd do anything then, no matter how ridiculous! :-D

Yes I will admit to it. There was a shop called "Home and Colonial" in Birmingham, many years ago with one of these mirrors, it was just so funny and hard to resist. I often saw adults having a go.

Yes I have done it..

In Leeds,Tower Arcade there was a Tate Sales Garage for little MG's.

My sister and I used to race down to get to the window/Mirror first.

By that brings back loads of memories of the 50's.

Thanks Sharron for bringing back some good memories. :-D :-D

That was mid sixties. I know it was because I was at school in Chichester then.

This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIPihrhzr-U

That's the very one.

Yep me too and fallen about laughing at how funny it was, well it was at the time. :-D

'Course I have :-D

OK I CONFESS I did it at a meet in Portmouth a few years ago. :-D :-D

I remember when RUSSLE HILLSDON'S was a toy shop back in about 1953. When we used to go to vist our grandparents who lived in a cottage by the canna,l oppsite the gasworks now PO sorting office, we always spent time looking at the toys.

They sold guns and sporting clothes and I can remember there being toys in that area somewhere but what a fine combination, toys and guns!

The little Railway Inn was there by the canal too. I only ever went in there once and Charlie Harding's scrapyard was by the canal.

Now I'm off!

Edit: It was Perce Harding had the scrapyard.

Grandma used to walk to the Railway inn with a jug & get a pint of stout for granddad. Do you remember the cottages, a terrace of three, oppsite the road by the police station?

Aren't they still there?

No, i cann't remember when they where pulled-down. It was about the late 1950's. COVER'S timber yard was there , then OSBOURNE'S the builder's, now Apartments. Yes, i now remember the guns, were they upstairs?

'Fraid I regularly used to do it - and still do if I can find a suitable window :-0

Oh yes..............it is the law I think :-D

Definitely Kitty!!
Part of the process of life.
First you embarrass your children, then your grandchildren :-D