Well! My little question about the name of the brown cornets sure got the list fired up! If my memory serves, there was a Pablo's at Blackpool just opposite the South Pier (on Station Rd/Prom.??) It served pretty good fish and chips (in the 1950s/60s...not so hot when I was last there about 8 years ago). And, of course, ice cream. As a kid, I was never allowed to have fish and chips AND ice cream. "Might get sick going back home (S. Manchester) on Cyril Holt's 'charra' ", me Mum said. (Was that how it was spelt? I never saw it written down. I preseume it was a contraction of charrabanc? Talking of which, I think Cyril Holt operated from somewhere off Wilslow Road. Can anyone in M/cr confirm that? All I know was that, if you went to Blackpool (about 9/6 return....9 shillings and sixpence...I can remember from the sandwhich boards advertising the trips), you went with Holt's, at least from our part of the world. And, when you got to Blackpool, you parked at the Pleasure Beach and were told to be back at 6 sharp so that the bus could spend a fair bit of time at the pub on the way home to Manchester. Was it the "Ridgeway Arms", I remember? And where the heck was it? Anyhow...anyone any more thoughts on names for brown cornets? :-) Cheers Alan (On a cold, winter's Tasmanian night)

Pablo's was there before the war too. My dad tells me that he went there when he was sent to his uncle's in the summer holidays from school ! Good Luck: Antony Lambert; the Certificate Man. Certificates in 5 Days see: www.certificates.fsnet.co.uk/certificates.htm or e-mail antonylambert@certificates.fsnet.co.uk http://www.certificates.fsnet.co.uk/ninth%20field.htm

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. I know the ice cream shop in Poulton uses the brown cornets, so I guess an ice cream is called for. Olive