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Steve Fox… Where the abc cinema used to be when I was a child.
Andrew Freeman.. My Mum used to tell the story of how Paul McCartney once got something off the top shelf for her!
Matt Thomas… Had forgotten about the separators
Huggy Leaver… Saturday morning pics , we like to laugh and have a sing song we’re minor’s of the ABC
James Turner… remember it well
Lloyd Johnson… The Ritz….
Debbie Wyatt… Fun shopping on Roller Skates
Kathy Wood… And even though it’s ESK it still has tge Sainbury’s floor tiles
Gary Thomas… I remember going there with my mum on a Saturday just before closing. They didn’t used to open on a Sunday. So people were circling like airplanes over an airport but with shopping trolleys. Then the yellow ticket fun would begin. HALF PRICE BAKERY GOODS! Suddenly the calm atmosphere was filled with trolley people dive bombing the bakery to get to their half priced goods. The funny thing was it was like spot who was here last week. Yep, normally the same people. That was a great memory from Sainos when it was in Cambridge Road.
Pauline Richards… I worked there in the 80s. 9 at night till.7 in the morning!
Ian Johnson… Used to go there with Mum
Martin Curcher… And me when we had the Flat (Beanfeast and Egg Noodles)
Lorna Brazier… I worked there in 82, and left in 83
Jane Freund… I went into labour in this shop, in 1988! Finished the shopping too
Martin Curcher… My first job was working in the Fruit and Veg section in 1981/82. The supervisor was an older lady called Meg
Karen Brooker… Used to shop here, it’s ESK now
Jane Kirkham… I worked there when it first opened.
Linda Hollands… Got most of my fruit and veg from green grocers next door to Sainsburys
Anthony Kingsman… Still the same tills and belts i think in the store
Christian Burton… Anthony, the belts haven’t worked for years
Mandy Taylor… I remember those days! Shopping with my nan..
Janette Morfey… If my memory serves me right, it was mid 70’s that it opened. ??
Alan Esdaile… August 74 Janette.
Steve Thorpe… Was it the Co-op before ESK?
Tony Court-holmes… I remember the minors
Lynda Coleman Westlake… Jane, I worked in the old one where nationwide is now lol xxx
Barry Upton… Julie, wow you know them, how lovely it was
Julia Kelly… I recognise Annette!
Jane Freund… That’s where I went in to labour with my youngest. Now 36…
Angela Frances Gardner… I remember the ABC cinema which was there before Sainsbury’s was built. The posh cinema compared to the Odeon and fleapit
Sarah Murray… Angela, it was the Ritz before that. Cliff Richard played there
Lee Twigge… Jane Kirkham when did it open? Seem to remember it opening as mother started shopping there and dragging me around it
Didn’t think it was early 70’s though…more latter half? May be my memory is playin tricks though?
Alison Cackett… Jane Kirkham me too I initially worked in the office but ended up on the shop floor. Mr Charteris was the manager and Mrs Stead was in charge of the tills. Mr Carter, Mr Jenkins.
Karen Maria Noakes… My step mum worked she was called Doreen. Xx
Si Elvins… i worked there when i was 16 – got treated like shit by the old skool type management – left and worked at Tescos in Hollington – much better- happy days eh
Trevor Locock… Greens was a convenience store. My sister Pam worked there for many years.
Nastassja Kaschevsky… I remember when the Skip Lorry crashed into the front of the shop.