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Offline DaveR

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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #45 on: August 06, 2011, 06:54:33 pm »
Welcome to the Forum, Maggie, keep those memories coming!  :)
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Offline DaveR

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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #46 on: August 20, 2011, 09:53:46 pm »
From 1968, this is the south side of Mostyn Street.

Shops are now:
District Bank = Animal Clothing
Hepworths = Next Clearance (just closed down)
Hilary Gerrard = Jessops
Wagstaffs/Baxters = Cafe Express


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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #47 on: August 20, 2011, 10:02:11 pm »
Quote from: DaveR on August 20, 2011, 09:53:46 pm
From 1968, this is the south side of Mostyn Street.

Shops are now:
Hepworths = Next Clearance (just closed down)
I was just wondering what happened to Hepworths and I found out that is is now known as...Next PLC!
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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #48 on: August 20, 2011, 11:11:36 pm »
Next PLC did not really originate from Hepworths though.
It was an offshoot, a seperate venture which eventually came back and swallowed Hepworths up.

It was the brainchild of George Davies (now better known as Asda George) from scratch in about 1982.
I met him personally many times, and he was ruthless and difficult.

I was working in Bradford when the embryonic idea of NEXT PLC came about, and the company I worked for handled thier warehousing.
I was offered shares in the NEXT brand at 6p. They were new, I was skint, so I declined.
Sometime later they were trading at 2700p and I would have been a millionaire.

But no.   Ohhh No,
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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #49 on: August 21, 2011, 09:54:28 am »
hi dave ,you left a shop out  on your photo ,do you notice the clock under the hepworth sign
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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #50 on: August 21, 2011, 06:54:54 pm »
was it Mansells the Jewellers?
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« Reply #51 on: August 21, 2011, 07:37:56 pm »
Quote from: suepp on August 21, 2011, 06:54:54 pm
was it Mansells the Jewellers?
...on the First Floor above Hepworths. H. J. Mansell of Manco House - Watch & Clock Repairs:
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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #52 on: August 21, 2011, 07:50:30 pm »
A view from 1968, showing Wartskis, Timothy Whites, Sumners and Arnolds.

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Offline Jack

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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #53 on: August 31, 2011, 07:48:24 pm »
Wright's Corner, Upper Mostyn Street
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Offline Jack

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« Reply #54 on: September 01, 2011, 02:04:12 pm »
Don't think this one has been put on the forum before
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Offline Nemesis

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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #55 on: September 01, 2011, 05:26:52 pm »
Like the classic Jag in Church Walks-- must have been two-way traffic then !
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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #56 on: September 04, 2011, 08:49:04 pm »
A close look at the Wagstaff's Tobacconist & Baxters Butchers shops, now merged to form the Cafe Express premises.
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« Reply #57 on: September 04, 2011, 09:43:45 pm »
Interesting photo from 1900. The corner behind the car is where Cafe Culture is now, whilst the Westminster Hotel can be seen across the road in St Georges Place, with Harry Jones Leather Stores on the ground floor.

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Offline Trojan

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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #58 on: September 08, 2011, 11:46:40 am »
Upper Mostyn St early '60's.
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Offline Trojan

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Re: Old Postcards - Llandudno Mostyn Street
« Reply #59 on: September 08, 2011, 11:56:44 am »
This was taken the same day.

I know it's been posted before, but I never get tired of looking at it....especially those vehicles.  ^*^0

9311 NA is an almost new 2553cc Ford Zodiac, the top of the Ford UK range at the time.

The car opposite with 777 showing having the smallest engine available in that body, the 1703cc Consul.

Between the Consul and the camera is a 1952 Austin A40 Somerset.

The other side of the Consul, and driving away are Hillman Minxes of the post 1957 type, and a Morris Minor 1000 Tourer, double parked, probably belonged to the district nurse.  :D

The van with a white roof is an Austin or Morris 10 cwt with a forward control driving position and the bus is a Bristol Lodekka, operated by Crosville of Chester.

The lady with the fashionable skirt stands behind a Bedford CA van with a minibus type conversion, probably by Martin Walter or Dormobile.

A Ford Anglia 105E approaches the camera in the distance to the right of the bus and a badly parked Vauxhall Victor Series 1F sticks out into the road just in front.
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