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Yes Floors of Distinction and the Cafe used to be Rumbelows, I remember watching the smash and grab in about 1992 when a car reversed straight through the doors and they grabbed all the video cameras. I think Andy Van Dyke was working there then. Before that it used to be the old cinema.
 
I saw Trevor Allum a couple of years ago when I was talking to Roy when he was in Lemmings. Roy would know all this he has been in the village now for 50 years.
 
 
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Originally posted by tobic tobic wrote:

The name Allum rings a bell, didnt they live in Leechcroft in the house on the first corner on the left going in.........had a son a bit older than me named Trevor I think...........


Yes the butchers was in the corner called Allum and Glanfield, and the son Trevor Allum had the hairdressers shop opposite.
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The name Allum rings a bell, didnt they live in Leechcroft in the house on the first corner on the left going in.........had a son a bit older than me named Trevor I think...........


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yes the cafe/flooring shop use to be Rumbelows i use to buy my single records in there.
the tile shop was a butchers i think it use to be called Allans or Allums, think it was run by Clive?
the butchers i mean was up the market place in the very early 70's there was a laundrette there also


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Originally posted by oldchris oldchris wrote:

the butchers was run by the stone family, the one that is now the cafe next to the tile shop i think...Confused
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I thought the tile shop *was* the butchers? Aren't the cafe & flooring shop what used to be Rumbelows?
I used to be with it. But then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems scary and weird.
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the butchers was run by the stone family, the one that is now the cafe next to the tile shop i think...Confused
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Edited by oldchris - 21 September 2010 at 4:10pm
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Originally posted by JohnohUK JohnohUK wrote:

I remember the bike shop... used to go up there in the 70's every Saturday to look at the airfix kits on the left hand side on the balcony bit.... and then to buy balsa wood for model planes...

The other toy shop was down by the old crossing .. probably the yorkshire building society... used to have model trains and stuff... didn't last long...
i think i remember the toy shop you mean but the one im talking about was about half way up the market place for sure.
i remember the old butchers there aswell before the one by Birrings, sawdust on the floor
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Record World halfway up the Market Place - great place shame it closed in the early 90's.
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wasn't the record shop near fake it.
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The bike shop used to sell Smurfs I remember. Also, wasn' t it also a record shop? Or was that next door?
I used to be with it. But then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems scary and weird.
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