Steve Heaven 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? > Yes, Mickleburghs! But it was definitely in Old Market Street in the 60s.
>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. At the age I was then I knew nothing of such things. I used to like going into a really quaint second-hand bookshop in Christmas Steps, where the proprietor (a Mr George, I believe) still worked out the prices in pounds, shillings and pence many years after decimalisation had arrived elsewhere. It was only years later that I learned that he had an "upstairs" department that little boys were certainly not invited to peruse, as it housed materials of a certain nature. > >(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) I think you may be mistaken in that. I always understood that it was culverted right under Broadmead and The Centre to St Augustine's Quay, where it keeps the Floating Harbour topped up. -- Martin Clark Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk
