suggestive shop names

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Wed 26 Oct, 2011 12:51 pm

Leodian wrote: Johnny39 wrote: Slightly off the subject but in the 40's/50's there was a building firm in and around Leeds called "Otty" but inevitably when you saw one of their wagons a "P" had been chalked in front of the "Otty", which never failed to have us kids in stitches. Simpler times. The Totty name of the construction firm always amused me. Is there still totty around! Plenty of it !!!!!!!!!

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 26 Oct, 2011 12:52 pm

uncle mick wrote: Leodian wrote: Johnny39 wrote: Slightly off the subject but in the 40's/50's there was a building firm in and around Leeds called "Otty" but inevitably when you saw one of their wagons a "P" had been chalked in front of the "Otty", which never failed to have us kids in stitches. Simpler times. The Totty name of the construction firm always amused me. Is there still totty around! Plenty of it !!!!!!!!!

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 26 Oct, 2011 1:57 pm

mhoulden wrote: I can just remember the pleasantly silly name of Wigfalls on Boar Lane. What I can't remember is exactly which shop it was, but I think it's now either Yates Wine Lodge or Evans Cycles on the corner of New Station St. Wigfalls also had a radio and bicycle shop in Lower Briggate, opposite Watson Cairns. I got my first bike there in the late 1940s - a black basic town model branded "Wigfalls Royal", but I imagine it will have been made under contract by a larger concern.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Wed 26 Oct, 2011 2:00 pm

Johnny39 wrote: Slightly off the subject but in the 40's/50's there was a building firm in and around Leeds called "Otty" but inevitably when you saw one of their wagons a "P" had been chalked in front of the "Otty", which never failed to have us kids in stitches. Simpler times. Otty was quite a large concern at the time, and their lorries were light grey with a red emblem - in a diamond shape if I remember rightly. Many of the vehicles were the ex Army/RAF/Navy square bonnetted Bedfords which were widely on sale as surplus at the time.