Hi June The Saturday treat to round off the day was a frothy coffee and a cream bun at Brucciannis If I remember rightly there were three then, the non smoker by Lewis's , the Turkey Cafe on Granby street and one on the opposite corner to Woolies (same side as the Town Hall Square) The Turkey Cafe was the favourite Then a long walk down to the Newarke bus station One of my school friends family had a stall on Leicester Market next to Linekers Was Kemps Clock at the entrance to the Market ? Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Re-sending this mail as I do not think it went the first time. > << My Mother, who was born & bred in Leicester used to call me 'mi duck' & the memory of it still > makes me cringe. I hated it. No one has mentioned the 'causey' as in ' keep on the causey'. It > meant 'keep on the path', I have certainly travelled back a few decades reading the current topic. > > By the way, the revolving metal drum was a coffee grinder in the window of one of Winns Cafes > facing the market stall, where footballer Gary Linekar's parents had their greengrocery stall. Do > people still meet under 'Kemp's Clock & does Bruccianis still do their wonderful Knickerbocker > Glorys? The older I get (78 this year) the more of my past I remember in detail. Wish my short > term memory was as good....... > Best wishes to all ex-Leicestrians wherever you are.>> > June Fleetwood > West Yorkshire

kemps clock is still there, opposite what was woolies but now bhs my mum and her friend read a notice in the mercury one night [in the 1950's] that someone wanted to meet a particular girl under the clock and they were to wear a red rose each so about a dozen girls turned up wearing one, but he didn't appear lol On 14 February 2012 11:24, Nivard Ovington <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi June > > The Saturday treat to round off the day was a frothy coffee and a cream > bun at Brucciannis > > If I remember rightly there were three then, the non smoker by Lewis's , > the Turkey Cafe on Granby > street and one on the opposite corner to Woolies (same side as the Town > Hall Square) > > The Turkey Cafe was the favourite > > Then a long walk down to the Newarke bus station > > One of my school friends family had a stall on Leicester Market next to > Linekers > > Was Kemps Clock at the entrance to the Market ? > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > > Re-sending this mail as I do not think it went the first time. > > << My Mother, who was born & bred in Leicester used to call me 'mi duck' > & the memory of it still > > makes me cringe. I hated it. No one has mentioned the 'causey' as in ' > keep on the causey'. It > > meant 'keep on the path', I have certainly travelled back a few decades > reading the current topic. > > > > By the way, the revolving metal drum was a coffee grinder in the window > of one of Winns Cafes > > facing the market stall, where footballer Gary Linekar's parents had > their greengrocery stall. Do > > people still meet under 'Kemp's Clock & does Bruccianis still do their > wonderful Knickerbocker > > Glorys? The older I get (78 this year) the more of my past I remember in > detail. Wish my short > > term memory was as good....... > > Best wishes to all ex-Leicestrians wherever you are.>> > > June Fleetwood > > West Yorkshire > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >