You’d get a lot of the carters and wagon drivers and stuff like that. They’d have to park and back up, while they waited to be loaded or unloaded because they didn’t just go in, they all had t...

It was a dockers' café. It was a big one on the corner and it was like two, they had two floors for the café because they had the downstairs, ground floor, and then upstairs and then above tha...

It was a little wholesale jeweller’s and you wouldn’t think it was because from the outside it looked like a shed, but that’s what it was, Charlie Pinks Jeweller’s.

It’s a shop now, if it was still in being today it would be condemned and it certainly wouldn’t be allowed to be open as a business because health and safety would not allow it. It was a hovel...

The school I went to, because it’s more or less in China town that really was the world in one city. We had Chinese, we had Arabs, we had Pakistani’s, we had your mixed race, we had your Black...

"Bold Street in those days, the shops that were in Bold Street were quite, well you didn't shop there unless you had a few bob. There was one shop called ‘'Cripps' and the stuff used to be absolute...

I used to go to the Medici Art Gallery in Bold Street to look at prints and this was the first shop that I saw that had reproductions of LS Lowry’s paintings for example. So when I was a stude...

It’s where we’d hang out; you could sit there and spend the day there and find out everything you knew and meet everyone you knew and it was, like some places sort of created such a nice atmos...

I tell you another thing that came into being in the 60s which I was sort of too young to really bother with, but I remember my older cousins going down there and once again it was because of ...

Well behind here originally stood the old St John's Market, which was a beautiful building. It had big towers on either end and doorways And inside it was all the stalls and it was just like o...

Mr Isaac: "There was a fish market, you went down Great Charlotte Street, off Elliott Street and on the right hand side there was a fish market but we also had a shop in the main market as wel...

St John’s Market was a wondrous place where you could buy live chickens and small chickens, try and rear them at home and you would find that the market was mixed, more mixed. There weren’t an...