I never had the bottle to "try" the massage parlours, (Thought about it occassionaly though!) but I did try the Mobile fish stall on the bomb site selling cockles, winkles and whelks etc. Loved the whelks!
On the "Center" where the Frome extits into the Harour area, (Maybe called Castele Green. It's on the borders, look into the tunnel bit and you can often see 1000's of brown rats just sitting there! It's full of them as "Oye seems to remember, Bristo' fashion like!" ~Allan~ --- In [email protected], Steve Heaven <st...@...> wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 16:53 +0000, Martin Clark wrote: > > > > > > I remember a very old-fashioned music shop in Old Market Street. > > Micklethwaites, or something similar, I think. > > > You don't mean Mickleburghs in Stokes Croft do you? > > Going back a little further, Old Market St was renown for it's array of > "massage parlours", "saunas", "private clubs" and Kings Cinema which > showed almost entirely horror films & sex films. > Two of my customers are now based in Old Market St but neither, I hasten > to add, is in the above professions ! > > (tenuously on topic as Old Market St is quite close to where the River > Frome (unnavigable) joins the Feeder Canal on it's way to Bristol docks) > > Steve > > -- > Follow our waterways wanderings on > www.justheaven.org.uk > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
