To the left of what used to be the Tiger Moth pub on Sandon Road in Meir, now the One Stop, is a row of small flats in a converted bungalow at the top of a long drive and front garden. To the right of the building there’s a small L-shaped bit. My grandparents kept a little shop there in the 60s and 70s, and lived in the whole bungalow, which had a back garden then, with old farm buildings behind. Nana stood at the front with the sweets and cigs, and Gaga was at the back at a counter with meat and cheese. (He used to take me with him to a wholesale place in Stoke for supplies, can still smell the place, and to the countryside for eggs and dairy). Some local ladies in macs and headscarves with string bags would come in to help, and made elevenses. My brothers and I earned ‘rations’ - sweets after tea - by stacking shelves etc.
Tesco almost destroyed Longton’s shops. Luckily it seems to be picking up. The Town centre was busy at the weekend, and I recommend the new coffee shop ;)
I agree C... it struck me just how much more inviting Longton was just a few week back while walking across the precinct for my eye appointment at Royals; another independent I would choose over the big nationals. I diffidently shouldn't have gone to Spec-savers 🥸
A bit before my time Pat but great to hear from you and know you have fond memories of the place. We did "Home Economics" when I was at Colclough Road under Miss Nutall around 1978/9. Unfortunately, today, things are very different. I remember my niece asking for help with some shopping when she did the same course a couple of decades later. She was told to buy a pot of jam and some ready made pastry... when did we stop teaching our kids how to cook? By my reckoning, it must have been 20 years ago and look where it's gotten us! Thanks for the comment, good luck. L
I used to always shop at this butchers before moving out the area. It was lobby time! The perk was if some cooked meat had just come out the oven. A meaty bap put lobby on hold, but not for long.😊 Thanks for sharing this great vid. Memories to cherrish.
Thanks fella... More to come as soon as I can. I've got Timberland on Sutherland Road, Philpots's in Fenton and Creswells, Longton, planned and on my ToDo list.
@@northstaffscountrywalks Plan on doing it all over time. I've got a great story about walking "up Hanley Duck" with Nan & Grandad as a young boy back in the early 70's and watching the barges being loaded with pottery while standing on the bridge on Eastwood Road... Happy memories.
My family is from the Meir…what a mess the A50 made of destroying the Meir. Mum was from laburnum place, dad from South Walk, later Pinewood Crescent and Brookwood Drive. Many memories of Meir.
Hi Jane and thanks for the comment. I was born and bred in Weston Coyney so attended Pinewood Crescent Primary School back in the 1970's and my walk in each morning was down Brookwood Drive. Some really happy memories of that place but sadly, like both Colclough Road and Box Lane high schools, they have all been erased. The trauma of building the A50 was indeed a major blow to the heart of the Meir, one it will never fully recover from. Of course it's decline isn't entirely due to the road. Like the vast majority of town centers today, it's decline is much more to do with economic and political reasons that seem to have been stacked against us since the end of the 70's. On the up side, I can't imagine what King Street, the old A50, would be like under the pressure of today's traffic volumes. Meir, Longton and Fenton were gridlocked before the new A50 dual carriageway replacement was installed. Today, the new road is tail-to-tail in both lanes during rush hour from Blythe Bridge, all the way to the Sideway junction with the A500! Happily, I very rarely need to use the road these days but do feel for all those that do. Cheers
Thanks Linda; they are all fabulous in there and we've been using them for years. It's a rare day when we get any meat from anywhere else. Parker's 5kg packs of chicken breasts are an absolute staple in our house. 👍 Apologies for the slightly grotty quality of the footage... it's probably time for an update now I've fixed the issue 😉
My wife is South African and these guys used to make or still do borewores sausage it's amazing on barbecue and considering they stoke butchers they make it really good 👍🏻
I applaud your devotion to the little guys and local shops. Seeing all those pies, pork,snake and pigmy etc made me wonder what happened to Browns pies from Stoke market? I'm an ex-pat Fenton-ite brought up on a diet of Browns pies and Heron Cross oatcakes. I can almost taste em 😁😁
Thanks Steve. I'll have to do a bit of research on Brown's Pies. Stoke market was like foreign travel for me when I was a lad with Longton and Hanley being my regular feeding grounds. I'm Weston Coyney born and bred and Hanley came in via my grandparents. Great days. So many places are long since gone, sadly all to be replaced with the likes of KFC and McDonald's. The once famous "Hold in the Wall" (ow in the wow) oakcake shop is no more and there is no more "alf a ovis" butty from Burgess's, Meir, either. More to come as soon as I can get my finger out. Cheers.
Hi mate just discovered your video , am a stoke lad too my question is are you filming with a insta 360 and if so do you edit the footage on your laptop/ computer thanks Terry
Hi Terry, nice to have you with us 👍 Yes, most of my stuff is done with the Insta 360 ONE X2. Editing usually starts with shot selection on an iPad. Once I have the shots set up, direction, zoom and pan, that gets exported as a standard, none 360, MP4 file. Final edit is done on a Linux desktop. The reason I don't do it all on a desktop is because raw 360 editing isn't really supported to any degree just yet as the Insta software only supports Windows and Mac. I don't have a Windows machine with good enough GPU to handle the 360 raw footage and doing it on a machine with out a GPU is possible but painful. Hope that helps but happy to give you the full demo if you are interested. Have a great weekend, cheers 🍺
@@Bloke-in-Stoke Hi Lyndon many thanks you this information this could help me with my future videos , I have the 360X 3 , I find it a bit of a pain in the neck editing it on my phone so I might look into the idea of using an iPad . Regards Terry
@@MrTerryb1956 Good idea Terry... I've never really tried to use the phone, other than viewing the video feed from the camera but I do think the phone screen is way too small to really work as an effective editor. If you need any help, just shout. Cheers🍺
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To the left of what used to be the Tiger Moth pub on Sandon Road in Meir, now the One Stop, is a row of small flats in a converted bungalow at the top of a long drive and front garden. To the right of the building there’s a small L-shaped bit. My grandparents kept a little shop there in the 60s and 70s, and lived in the whole bungalow, which had a back garden then, with old farm buildings behind. Nana stood at the front with the sweets and cigs, and Gaga was at the back at a counter with meat and cheese. (He used to take me with him to a wholesale place in Stoke for supplies, can still smell the place, and to the countryside for eggs and dairy). Some local ladies in macs and headscarves with string bags would come in to help, and made elevenses. My brothers and I earned ‘rations’ - sweets after tea - by stacking shelves etc.
I supplied their chicken for many years, always a quality establishment. Nice to see Rich and Terry are still there and Graham still fully in command.
Tesco almost destroyed Longton’s shops. Luckily it seems to be picking up. The Town centre was busy at the weekend, and I recommend the new coffee shop ;)
I agree C... it struck me just how much more inviting Longton was just a few week back while walking across the precinct for my eye appointment at Royals; another independent I would choose over the big nationals. I diffidently shouldn't have gone to Spec-savers 🥸
Remember when that was Arthur's store we had to learn how to shop for our cookery lesson at Meir secondary school in the 1948 .
A bit before my time Pat but great to hear from you and know you have fond memories of the place. We did "Home Economics" when I was at Colclough Road under Miss Nutall around 1978/9. Unfortunately, today, things are very different. I remember my niece asking for help with some shopping when she did the same course a couple of decades later. She was told to buy a pot of jam and some ready made pastry... when did we stop teaching our kids how to cook? By my reckoning, it must have been 20 years ago and look where it's gotten us!
Thanks for the comment, good luck.
L
I used to always shop at this butchers before moving out the area. It was lobby time! The perk was if some cooked meat had just come out the oven. A meaty bap put lobby on hold, but not for long.😊
Thanks for sharing this great vid. Memories to cherrish.
Thanks for the comment F. Wonder if you remember Burgess' too. Had many a "half a Hovis" at lunch time while attending Box Lane in the early 80?😉
Good on ya mate for flying the locally produced flag.
Refreshing channel too!
Keep up the good work.
Thanks fella... More to come as soon as I can. I've got Timberland on Sutherland Road, Philpots's in Fenton and Creswells, Longton, planned and on my ToDo list.
@@Bloke-in-Stoke Any plans for going further afield? Namely Stoke, Burslem, Tunstall, and up Hanley duck.
@@northstaffscountrywalks Plan on doing it all over time. I've got a great story about walking "up Hanley Duck" with Nan & Grandad as a young boy back in the early 70's and watching the barges being loaded with pottery while standing on the bridge on Eastwood Road... Happy memories.
Great video! Feels like being there. Ahh the smells!
What a fabulous shop!
My family is from the Meir…what a mess the A50 made of destroying the Meir. Mum was from laburnum place, dad from South Walk, later Pinewood Crescent and Brookwood Drive. Many memories of Meir.
Hi Jane and thanks for the comment. I was born and bred in Weston Coyney so attended Pinewood Crescent Primary School back in the 1970's and my walk in each morning was down Brookwood Drive. Some really happy memories of that place but sadly, like both Colclough Road and Box Lane high schools, they have all been erased.
The trauma of building the A50 was indeed a major blow to the heart of the Meir, one it will never fully recover from. Of course it's decline isn't entirely due to the road. Like the vast majority of town centers today, it's decline is much more to do with economic and political reasons that seem to have been stacked against us since the end of the 70's.
On the up side, I can't imagine what King Street, the old A50, would be like under the pressure of today's traffic volumes. Meir, Longton and Fenton were gridlocked before the new A50 dual carriageway replacement was installed. Today, the new road is tail-to-tail in both lanes during rush hour from Blythe Bridge, all the way to the Sideway junction with the A500!
Happily, I very rarely need to use the road these days but do feel for all those that do.
Cheers
Great butchers, I always get my Christmas turkey from them.
My son works there, he was on the video Richard "The Dancing Butcher" he was serving the customers. Enjoyed the video Thank you .
Thanks Linda; they are all fabulous in there and we've been using them for years. It's a rare day when we get any meat from anywhere else. Parker's 5kg packs of chicken breasts are an absolute staple in our house. 👍 Apologies for the slightly grotty quality of the footage... it's probably time for an update now I've fixed the issue 😉
I'd be in there all the time if I lived nearby. Quality
Like a lot local shops like this well supported in general in stoke I find .
brill vid genuine nice guy to talk too met lyndon just the other day at a local motor factors
Kind words indeed Mark and thanks for the chat, always a pleasure to talk to a fellow Stokie👍
My wife is South African and these guys used to make or still do borewores sausage it's amazing on barbecue and considering they stoke butchers they make it really good 👍🏻
Hi Matt. I'll ask about the borewores sausage and get back to you 😉
I applaud your devotion to the little guys and local shops. Seeing all those pies, pork,snake and pigmy etc made me wonder what happened to Browns pies from Stoke market? I'm an ex-pat Fenton-ite brought up on a diet of Browns pies and Heron Cross oatcakes. I can almost taste em 😁😁
Thanks Steve. I'll have to do a bit of research on Brown's Pies. Stoke market was like foreign travel for me when I was a lad with Longton and Hanley being my regular feeding grounds. I'm Weston Coyney born and bred and Hanley came in via my grandparents. Great days. So many places are long since gone, sadly all to be replaced with the likes of KFC and McDonald's. The once famous "Hold in the Wall" (ow in the wow) oakcake shop is no more and there is no more "alf a ovis" butty from Burgess's, Meir, either. More to come as soon as I can get my finger out. Cheers.
Love it mate ❤
Hi mate just discovered your video , am a stoke lad too my question is are you filming with a insta 360 and if so do you edit the footage on your laptop/ computer thanks Terry
Hi Terry, nice to have you with us 👍
Yes, most of my stuff is done with the Insta 360 ONE X2.
Editing usually starts with shot selection on an iPad. Once I have the shots set up, direction, zoom and pan, that gets exported as a standard, none 360, MP4 file.
Final edit is done on a Linux desktop.
The reason I don't do it all on a desktop is because raw 360 editing isn't really supported to any degree just yet as the Insta software only supports Windows and Mac. I don't have a Windows machine with good enough GPU to handle the 360 raw footage and doing it on a machine with out a GPU is possible but painful.
Hope that helps but happy to give you the full demo if you are interested.
Have a great weekend, cheers 🍺
@@Bloke-in-Stoke Hi Lyndon many thanks you this information this could help me with my future videos , I have the 360X 3 , I find it a bit of a pain in the neck editing it on my phone so I might look into the idea of using an iPad . Regards Terry
@@MrTerryb1956 Good idea Terry... I've never really tried to use the phone, other than viewing the video feed from the camera but I do think the phone screen is way too small to really work as an effective editor.
If you need any help, just shout.
Cheers🍺
Nice vid as always Lyndon. Put some gloves on riding that bike! ;-)
Not a bike KT... it's a Trike! You're lucky I have enough sense to wear a helmet... they're not required either 🤠
I lived in doctor toes owd house up theer, top a leason road, owys had me mate from that butchers. Proper owd type shops.
Ar... conner gew rong wi Parkers duck 😆😆👍
Ya conner
You've got to try tripe, Lyndon!
Go wash your mouth out with carbolic V... It's the Devil's food, just like all other offal! 😉
Your joints will thank you for it!
@@DSmith-ix1xf Doubt the rest of me would though 😂 Cheers 👍
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