The Bargain Booze off-licence in Spring's Parade, Brigg - formerly Rhythm & Booze - is to open on Christmas Day this year.
Opening hours of interest to those who run out of festive essentials are:Christmas Day: 12 noon to 3pm.
Boxing Day: 10am to 6pm.
New Year's Day: 10am to 6pm.
My 1960's brainstorm....
ReplyDeleteHitchcock's 'Psycho'
007....Dr Z....Lawrence of Arabia..the Great Escape....
The Mini(1959) and the mini!
Players Cadets - No 6 coupons - Green Shield stamps....
Moon landing...JFK assassination - Marilyn Monroe..the end of the Civil Defence Corps...Woodstock..Top of the Pops - Pans People..6-Five Special, ITV, Berlin Wall - Magic Roundabout - Mr Benn -Adolf Eichmann..Bay of Pigs- the 'V' Bombers - Valiant - Vulcan and Victor....Cash Machines - Comprehensive Schools - Beatles; Beatle suits; Stones; Cilla et al...Winklepickers - chisel-points...Mods & Rockers - Brighton beach..Vietnam - Aden...Buddhist Monks in flames..Great Train Robbery..Cassias Clay...Stirling Moss...the 1963 Winter..MLK 'I have a dream'...Steam engines - smelly diesels...Smog..Man on the Moon..Ford Cortina...British bikes versus - AJS, Triumph, James... Japanese machines..oil leaks..sidecars..Babycham..school caps, satchels...lines..canes and ink blots...Harold Wilson & Edward Heath...TSR2..North Sea oil..chips in newspapers..The Graduate...Chinese take-aways..10.30 closing in pubs + 10 minutes 'drinking-up time.' ...Z-Cars - Panda Cars -Dixon of Dock Green - This is Your Life...Flower Power..Bullet trains, Sunday afternoon wrestling on telly..snooker in black and white..Antree motor-racing track..Liverpool promoted to 1st Division - World Cup - trams and trolley-buses..grocers' bikes...string ties; Old Spice after-shave...Lady Chatterley's Lover...pages 59 to 72 and 101 to 123!...football bladders...short trousers, plastic sandals..nutty-slack coal..self-service stores...outside toilets..plastic string bags..birth-pills..thalidomide babies..'O'-Levels - Polytechnics..Open University..Drink-Driving laws..MOT's..strikes...Fyfe Robertson - Albert Speers -Mandela - Iron Curtain..Churchill dies..U2 & Garry Powers...Sputniks...Zoo Time, Mr Ed the Talking Horse..instant coffee...tea-bags..tea-cosies..knitted swimming-trunks!...bus conductors..petrol station attendants..Consulate Menthol...blotting paper, stencil machines; carbon paper....Brylcreme - DA's. quiffs & crew-cuts...NHS specs...Polio sugar lumps...'Never Had it So Good'....string, knitted woolen and kipper ties....Dads Army..Stop the Clock...The 6 Day War...Ann Packer; David Hemmery and Lillian Board...Stanley Matthews..first heart transplant..mobile TB screening x-ray units..the revolution of motorway driving and the picnicking of some on the central reservations...the National Speed Limit.....three-speed gearboxes...hand-signals..lolly-pop ladies....The Post-Office Tower...The Fairy Rotodyne...the hovercraft.....and all of me teenage years!!!
Sorry - put it in the wrong bit....
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