amazing, i moved here as an adult but both my girls went to Ludworth - Happy Days.
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Small world - I left in ‘96 and came to Bristol, Mum and Dad stayed in Marple Bridge till 2016, they are down here now which is a shame as I’m sorely tempted to come back to go to Up In Arms at the Norfolk - did a fair amount of under age drinking there as a lad, was highly amused when I saw they’d started a decent party there - would love to go to one some time - have you been?
Not yet as ive been away working a lot this year, but delighted to see its on there.
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Yeah couldn’t believe it when I saw Miles Holoway was playing at my old under age boozer with the likes of Rune Lindback!
I went to that party, it was great!
The Norfolk Arms is a really good pub now with a decent selection of beers. The space upstairs is, obviously, perfect for a party too.
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It’s ironic cos as a teenager I was always walking past the Norfolk on the way to the train station to go into town to go to Sankeys or The Ardri or Roadhouse or whatever - never thought the party would come to the bridge!
There are some excellent restaurants in Marple Bridge too now, Fold Bistro especially.
Ha mad how a place can change - when I left the best eatery was the Deep Sea Chippy
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The Chip Shop is now run by a nice chap who used to work in fashion and makes award winning pies.
And Marple has a great Cambodian and good Japanese and as I’ve been telling my kids for the last 15 years, ‘it’s the new Brooklyn’.
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I must come back for a visit - it wasn’t even the new Marple last time I was there - wools be great to see how it’s developed.
Is the the Regent Cinema still going?
yes, and just been redecorated outside, and the nice chap who sells you a ticket then pops into the booth next door to sell you some revels and a kia-ora. And theres an intermission with ice cream vendors
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Wow. Looks great - and strangely very much unchanged - though in my memory it was much bigger! I remember seeing Ghost here when it first came out in what could legitimately be called my first proper date…
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Not sure if Marple has changed or cinema going, but most of the audience now look like theyre heading towards their Last Date.
I took this on Sheffield today
How did we get from I only drink Purdeys when out to real ale + real house
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Stockport is so over, it’s all about Marple now.
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I’ll be sure to inform the wonky old lads who sit on the benches outside Greggs of this crucial new bit of info. in the morning - well, the mid morning. None of them are particularly early risers.
In the week that Mike “Concrete” Graham got sacked by Talk TV as a result of obviously vile stuff being put on his Facebook by hackers (yeah, right), I’m reminded of my encounter with him. Accompanied the wife to a book launch at the News Building near London Bridge (the home of Murdoch’s media empire)a few years ago, I went to use the gents and saw a bloke exiting a cubicle and leaving the toilets without washing his hands. It was the aforementioned Mr Graham.
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At least he can concentrate on his Concrete farm now.
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Extremely small claim.
My Mrs used to sell scratch cards to Alex Higgins- £50’s worth at a time(!)- money he’d got pool/ snooker hustling in pubs around Salford/ Manc towards back end of his life.
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It might have been some of my money! I played pool (fiver a game) with Higgins in the late 80s in a pub in Didsbury when I visited a mate at uni in Manchester.
We headed out later on our way to the Hacienda but only ever reached as far as a blues in Hulme all the poorer financially.
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