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We've got some Thrift growing in our back garden. It tastes lovely too.

liits wrote: Wasn't there one on York Rd, on the parade of shops near the Melbourne pub? Indeed there was ;iits and on more in the old Seacroft Village for many years. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... 9_27914065

Trojan wrote: There was a Thrift Stores on South Queen Street in Morley, I wonder did they just cover Leeds and West Riding or were they a national company.BTW Thrift was pictured on the pre 1953 brass threepenny pieces         I'd forgotten what was depicted on the old threepenny bit. What was on the post 1953 coin?

There was a Gallons on Austhorpe Rd, Crossgates. Wasn't the full name "Gallons' Meddow Dairy"?    

liits wrote: There was a Gallons on Austhorpe Rd, Crossgates. Wasn't the full name "Gallons' Meddow Dairy"?     I can't visulise it, but wasn't there a Gallons as well as Thrift on the Foundry Lane parade?

blackprince wrote: Trojan wrote: There was a Thrift Stores on South Queen Street in Morley, I wonder did they just cover Leeds and West Riding or were they a national company.BTW Thrift was pictured on the pre 1953 brass threepenny pieces         I'd forgotten what was depicted on the old threepenny bit. What was on the post 1953 coin? I think it was a sort of 'portcullis' affair

Gallons was a chain with a Head Office (or if not HQ, a major warehouse/distribution centre) in Brown Lane, Holbeck. I used to deliver there when I drove for Hanson Haulage, and it was a pig of a reversal to the loading bay. The building had been constructed in horse and cart days, so not designed for bulk deliveries in large vehicles.The other regional multiples of the period included John S. Driver, Jesse Stephenson, and Albert Hanson - "for all your butter & bacon".

Uno Hoo wrote: The other regional multiples of the period included John S. Driver, Jesse Stephenson, and Albert Hanson - "for all your butter & bacon". Hi Uno Hoo - let's not forget yet another chain of similar shops - "ALTHAMS." I may easily be wrong, but I have a feeling that when the vogue for these little shops began to wane Althams shrank into being just travel agents, unless that was another firm with the same somewhat unusual name ??

BLAKEY wrote: Uno Hoo wrote: The other regional multiples of the period included John S. Driver, Jesse Stephenson, and Albert Hanson - "for all your butter & bacon". Hi Uno Hoo - let's not forget yet another chain of similar shops - "ALTHAMS." I may easily be wrong, but I have a feeling that when the vogue for these little shops began to wane Althams shrank into being just travel agents, unless that was another firm with the same somewhat unusual name ?? Greetings to you too, BlakeyYou've caught me with your last posting, as I don't recall Althams at all, apart from the travel agency.I do remember Maypole Stores, though. ISTR a branch in Pudsey Lowtown. No doubt some of the Pudseyites will either confirm or else tell me I'm dreaming, which I probably am.

Memories of Jesse Stephenson are of his Rolls-Royce, two-tone midnight blue and cream - very impressive. My grandparents lived on Priesthorpe Road in Farsley, and Jesse lived a good bit further up - and in a somewhat different sort of house - so I saw the car quite often.My sister got a temporary school holiday job in his bakery in New Street, Farsley. The building later became the Tradex Warehouse. She always warned against eating Stephenson apple pies, as their baker didn't make much use of his handkerchief with the result that not all the apple was apple. I suppose I'd better say "allegedly" in true Private Eye fashion here, altho' dead men can't sue!