On 26/5/05 10:16 am olive said: > I think the Pablo sign is still there, Station Road and Promenade as you > say. It is no good, I shall have to have a drive around now and look this > up. > We used to stop at a chip shop on the outskirts of Preston. This is still > there, which amazes me after all these years. We used to stop for fish & chips in Preston on the way back to Wigan from Blackpool. I wonder if it was the same one. Proper fish & chips wrapped up in newspaper - none of these polystyrene trays that you get nowadays! One of my favourite sweets from those days were Uncle Joe's Mint Balls. They are still being made in the same Santus factory round the back of Wigan Parish Church - but today they are individually wrapped. In those days they just came out of the big jar in the shop into a little triangular paper bag where they all stuck to each other if you didn't eat them fast enough. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!) But they still seem to taste the same as I remember. Curly aniseed rock was another favourite. But I haven't seen that for years. Miles