And I thought I was bonkers!

• Terry Nunn

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  18 January 2011     16:1289407
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  Hillside Road.
  
  Terry
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• Guest 640

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  18 January 2011     16:5189413
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  lol Terry you are still probably bonkers but so is this guy! But no seriously these old signs, if it is an old one, are worth a lot of money. Either that or he has bought up some old stock and selling it away like mad as a 'nice little earner'.
  
  Woolworths is still sadly missed as no other store has quite replaced it. Wonder if that woman, do you remember, the former employee who carried on and opened a new one of similar nature...I wonder if it worked out for her and the staff she brought with her. Got a lot of media attention at the time, but was it successful or did it just fade away??
  
  Interesting picture Terry.
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• Guest 706

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  18 January 2011     17:0489415
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  I found this about Wellworths,os should imagine it's still up and running
  
  In October 2010 it was revealed that the store will change its name to Wellchester after pressure from Shop Direct Group, owner of the Woolworths brand.[9]
• Guest 649

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  18 January 2011     17:0789418
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  Great sigh beening hanging there for some time now.
• Keith Sansum1

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  18 January 2011     17:1089420
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  around the corner in this guys garden is a oca post office sign
  plus many more
  (noticed them on my canvassing journey)
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• Guest 703

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  18 January 2011     17:2489423
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  My neighbour has got a post box and phone box, complete with lights and the appropriate phone.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  18 January 2011     17:2589424
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  seems to be a lot of old woolworth's stock in pound shops.
  
  that one near to netto had a good selection of small kitchen appliances.
• Guest 651

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  18 January 2011     18:1089433
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  Spotted that the other day and had a chuckle !!
  
  Has anyone noticed the single anti-tank pimple in a front garden just a bit further up the road?
  
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• Brian Dixon

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  18 January 2011     18:1389434
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  yes i have,often wonderd what it was doing there.
• Guest 700

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  19 January 2011     09:0189509
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  I'd rather have one of those than a gnome !! Makes a change. A stunted obelisk.
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• Guest 702

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  19 January 2011     09:2989518
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  I always assumed that that anti-tank device was a left-over from a war time road block.
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• Guest 651

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  19 January 2011     09:3789519
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  I think it has been relocated, but just a short distance up the road are the filled in slots in the concrete road for posts to be dropped in and block the road
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• Terry Nunn

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  19 January 2011     09:4589522
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  Speaking of pimples (and I'm not really digressing here as there is the word bonkers in the title), my Auntie Lil always wore a scarf. She did that because she almost always had at least one or two boils on the back of her neck. You don't find that these days, I suppose we are all (well some of us) much cleaner.
  
  Auntie Lil was a Mayoress by the way. Come on you historians, who was she married to?
  
  Terry
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  19 January 2011     16:1689571
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  did i hear victor's name mentioned?