even trinity walk looks like a ghost town

Have you been on the top floor of the ridings? there are more empty units than let ones!! If fact I bet there are only about 12 shops!!

I agree. Been there a couple of times and it is only around 60% occupied.

I have also heard that despite it being a much better shop, the Sainsburys is not doing as well as it did on Ings Road.

Its funny you should say that because me and my mum used to go with my Grandma on a thursday to Hillards after walking round the market then we went home with her to Lupset on the bus, I vaguely remember one of those buses where we driver was seperate to the main bus and it had a conducter to collect the fares, the bus went along horbury road then up Broadway, she lived on Aysgarth Drive before it became a drug den...ah memories..

I'm not surprised, it will be the car park charge and the fact you cant just pop in to buy things like the old one. Sainsburys was also handy for a cash machine you could just get of the car and walk to...

The car park is free if you shop at the Sainsburys. You have to get your ticket validated when you pay for your shopping.

I thought you had to spend £10?

You do.

That bus was, I think, the 103.

We used to live at the bottom of Broadway right next to the fields that eventually got swallowed up by the Dr's surgery then Aysgarth Estate; no offence to your Nan, but Aysgarth ruined that part of Lupset.

I've been to Trinity Walk and Sainsbury's a number of times and not paid to park once. Even then its 80p an hour.

Yeah but it was alright when my grandma lived there it was only after she died it went downhill...

Used to catch the Ossett 20 (120) with my mum and about 16 Hillards shopping bags, it was amazing to see all the mums who'd mastered the art of carrying so many bags full of shopping without breaking sweat.

your mum had a collection of lazy sons by the sounds of it.

She should have ordered on line and got free delivery.

I have the same memory - my Mum, tiny woman that she is, carrying a weekly shop for a family of 5 in multiple carrier bags. No veggies though - we got them from Geoff's mobile shop.

Friday big shop, home on t'bus, then tea off the chippy van. Good times!

We were never in, 24-7 playing sport either at Eastmoor, for school, out on the street, down at Empire Stores playing fields or in the garden where we re-enacted so many Test matches that the ground looked like a post apocalyptic nuclear wast zone, totally bereft of any vegetation. Even at night time as soon as the parents were out of the way we turned the living room into Wembley Stadium and wrought havoc on anything that wasn't sturdy enough to withstand a pair of teenagers crashing into or through it.

Anyway, we had two sisters for that!

Closest thing to online was the aforementioned Geofs mobile shop!

There was also Peter Caseli's the butchers shop at the end of the Rd, Renshaws and Haley's grocery shops on Townley Rd.

bloody hell how old are you

Geoffs mobile shop!!! Now there is a memory that I would not have thought possible to dredge up from the annuls of my cranium - int tinternet brilliant! What was the name of the mobile fishman that did the lupset rounds at the same time. This will test the cut of Clan's Jib.

Guiness Sausages from Peter the Butcher were a rare treat in our house - I've never tasted anything like them since. He was a nice fella - died a few years ago I think.

Snowie - I'm 41, why? Does a chippy van sound like something out of the dark ages? It wasn't pulled by a horse tha knows!

I wouldn't of expected you to have memories of such bye gone years

you will be telling me you remember the old tin bath hung outside

and before anyone say owt I can't

We just used to call it 'the chippy van' - I don't remember if it had an actual name, but I do recall that it was a kind of maroon colour and served the best chips going.

I remember the fish n chip van but I think he's referring to the van that sold fresh fillets of fish and I'm almost there with the name I think.

Give me a minute or two.

I fancy fish and chips for tea after reading all of this

Hillards a blast from the past, we used to shop at Leo's supermarket on Dewsbury road it was closer....lol Happy days