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I should be in bed nowbut this site is very addictive,
Anyone remember the old woolworths,were Quick Save is,before my time i believe it was a cinema, not sure on that, if it was they should still have it(more use then quicksave but i wont go into that)anyway i remmber as you went in the door right infrount of you was a large counter,with what seemed like shelves with partions on full of all sorts of usfull items,and it had a woolies smell,anyone know what i mean.?
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Didn't it used to be rather dark in there! The old wooden floorboards and shop counters, more like an indoor market, and a proper selection of pick 'n' mix. I was in woolies in Reading this evening - not a pineapple chunk in sight!
JohnH
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I'd like to know who designed the Kwik Save car park, they should be sacked. There used to be a cinema just off the roundabout, where the new houses are now, they had a Saturday club for young-uns
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Hi I was very interested in the OLD WOOLIES topic, and weather it was a cinema. Well,it WAS a cinema and I think it was called the Regent.
I used to go there as a child,and it was quite a good little cinema,since all the top films of the day where shown hot off the press so to speak.
There was another cinema in Leyland The Palace and this is now a bingo place (I think) .It is just off the roundabout Hough lane/ Chapel brow.I remember going to the Regent to see a film called The Golden Salamander, and having to sit through it twice because there was an air raid on, and it was safer to stay in there than risk walking home.By the way ,that was WW2,not WW1.hope those times don't come back.Sure they won't.
All the best for now Tony
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The Kwik Save store was the site of the Regent cinema from 1932 until 1949, when the building had a fire which closed the cinema for ever. The building later became the Leyland branch of Woolworths, with its distinctive wooden floor, the area still known as Woolworths corner. The name of the Regent is still remembered with Regent Road further along Towngate.
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Hello Everyone! And thankyou Martin for getting in touch. The best thing about Leyland for me was that there was a motorway and a train station to make my escapes... this being said, I 've really enjoyed the remeniscences , especially about Grundy's- what a gas!!! Will add my own shortly. Cheers!
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Woolworths, which was the Regent, used to have Harry Bambers barber shop next door before he moved on to Hough Lane. I must have something about Leyland barbers locked in the old grey matter.
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Hi All, I can remember woolies very well (particularly the smell!)I also remember the cafe that was mentioned, it had a good juke box. I still believe my fear of the dentist came from my visits to Grundy's. I have not seen any mention of the infamous Leyland Tiger, my mother worked there for many years. It look so run down now.
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I remember the cafe too - spent many happy hours in there listening to the jukebox - usually after school or at lunchtimes.
'School', being wellfield - the time being the 60's !! Oh dear, my aching back .. lolol
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Istill have the little black dolly that I bought in Leyland Woolies in the late sixties. i saw a couple of films at The Regent, namely The Theif of Baghdad and The Captains Paradise, both still excellent , now have them on video.
