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Any of the Hammer horror films for me. If they have Michael Ripper in then all the better. Also the Dr Phibes films with Vincent Price are brilliant.

Ha,ha.. my old school mates ended up doing backing vocals on their first album and security at their gigs. I saw them many times in the ‘80’s in and around Macc’. Even in the back of a flat bed lorry in a field after they got banned from playing venues. I used to visit their digs/ shop ( on...

Yes, that’s the one. Derek Davenport ran the health shop you mentioned. Also sold home brew equipment.

Great chippy back then just around the corner on Garden Street. You name it they sold it. The couple that ran it also had a cafe up by the canal in Adlington. Sadly no longer there.

We still have one in Macclesfield, just called in.

Cockett & Sons? Great bakery too.

Tripe and cow heels was a favourite of my Grandpa in the 70’s. I remember going to the local butchers to buy it with him. Rabbit is one of my favourite meats but it’s nigh on impossible to buy from the butchers around here even though I live in a rural county and there’s hundreds of the little...

I love liver and onions.. prefer white to black pudding.

That was the first one that came to mind when I read the question.

Love them.

We were at the same gig if you were at the Who Wants The World Tour at the Apollo in 1980. Great gig and at that time they had all those previous albums to pull songs from for the set. My mum knitted me a JJB black sweater with one white arm when Black and White was released :)

… they did do one brilliant cover though.

I have a bit of a dilemma about the Stranglers. I loved the first 5 albums and they were the second band I ever saw live but then I gave up on them after some horrendous live shows ( especially with the crap brass section) and what I thought were really poor albums. I didn’t like the cover...

I have loved Badfinger for many years. Probably ingrained in my brain from the early 70’s before punk came along and took me away, along with T Rex, Sweet, Glitter Band and Mott The Hoople etc. There’s a great documentary about them but if any band deserves a biopic to tell the truth it’s them.

Army and Navy or Surplus shops… kept me dressed when I was younger :)

A money shop…. all the banks have disappeared!!!!

We still have a butchers, the fishmonger has gone but there’s a great one up the road in Macclesfield. The local diy shop closed last year and it was a good one not like the current trend for some ( not all) of the substandard crap for sale at the ‘around a pound’ type that seem to have taken...

There used to be one of those in Leek called The Home & Colonial Stores, it was a great old shop set on 3 levels and you just went down and down. Sadly it closed a few years ago. Definitely like something out of FOTSW!