Half Day Closing Wednesday
Discussion
Bury's early closing day was - traditionally - Wednesday; its satellite towns/villages had early closing day on Tuesday.
OP, ask 'em about Wakes Week ... Up 'til 1980 we (my family) used to spend said September week in Blackpool; the streets had plenty of Bury-registered vehicles parked up that week. Dunno about the weeks before or after, as I was at primary school . It 'felt' nice, this link with the past .
Dunno about the years after, as my father had fd off by Sept 81 .
OP, ask 'em about Wakes Week ... Up 'til 1980 we (my family) used to spend said September week in Blackpool; the streets had plenty of Bury-registered vehicles parked up that week. Dunno about the weeks before or after, as I was at primary school . It 'felt' nice, this link with the past .
Dunno about the years after, as my father had fd off by Sept 81 .
aw51 121565 said:
Bury's early closing day was - traditionally - Wednesday; its satellite towns/villages had early closing day on Tuesday.
OP, ask 'em about Wakes Week ... Up 'til 1980 we (my family) used to spend said September week in Blackpool; the streets had plenty of Bury-registered vehicles parked up that week. Dunno about the weeks before or after, as I was at primary school . It 'felt' nice, this link with the past .
Dunno about the years after, as my father had fd off by Sept 81 .
Sorry, you're wrong...OP, ask 'em about Wakes Week ... Up 'til 1980 we (my family) used to spend said September week in Blackpool; the streets had plenty of Bury-registered vehicles parked up that week. Dunno about the weeks before or after, as I was at primary school . It 'felt' nice, this link with the past .
Dunno about the years after, as my father had fd off by Sept 81 .
Bury's early closing day was Tuesday, not Wednesday.
(It was Wednesday in Gorton and other Manchester suburbs)
Spare tyre said:
Unis don't teach on Wednesday afternoons as well
Lazy bunch
I remember that; it was great. We all piled off to Swadlincote dry ski slope near Burton-on-Trent and went, er, skiing (This was 1987 - 1991 so no indoor snowdowe things in those days).Lazy bunch
Half day closing - used to be Tuesdays in Rochdale back in the day when there were shops (because the place hadn't been flooded with the economically inactive). Even my dad's veterinary surgery closed on Tuesday afternoons. That was as late as the 90s at any rate.
aw51 121565 said:
OP, ask 'em about Wakes Week ... Up 'til 1980 we (my family) used to spend said September week in Blackpool; the streets had plenty of Bury-registered vehicles parked up that week. Dunno about the weeks before or after, as I was at primary school . It 'felt' nice, this link with the past .
Wakes holidays were a throwback to the mills, I think. Rochdale Wakes were in June I think; we still got them at school in the 70s (I went off to a school in Bury in '77 but my mates still got them right up til they went off to Uni). Basically (back in the day) everyone in the town or village etc went on holiday at the same time, to the same place. All on fleets of motor coaches (or charabancs which look like the best laugh ever) to Blackpool or whatever.The wakes school holidays were an arse though, because nobody else got them and they also made your big summer break shorter - I remember one year my summer holiday was something crap like 4 weeks. Then I went to Bury and got these 11 week monsters.
Edited by Dog Star on Thursday 28th May 09:02
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