Hi all from Northamptonshire

[Pete999]

Welcome to the forum from someone else inNN3 in Northampton. Weston Favell Pete! have you moved?

Thatsthe nearest place anyone will reconise if they aren#t from around N/ton, if I had said the Gallery. well who knows, to anwser your question NO I haven't moved sarcy g-t

 

[FatAlan]

Ah Weston Favell shopping centre. State of the art 40 years ago. Have vague memories of watching Mad Max I and II at Lings Forum cinema.

 

[rsgaz]

Weston Favell shopping centre

Has it still got the long escalator/ramp thingy for trolleys? That's all I remember as a kid, not quite as fun at Gatwick's conveyors, but close!

 

[FatAlan]

Has it still got the long escalator/ramp thingy for trolleys? That's all I remember as a kid, not quite as fun at Gatwick's conveyors, but close!

I remember the incomplete tube like covered walkways that entered the centre from the outside.

 

[rsgaz]

Yes! And I remember the good old "no right turn" that everyone ignores and turns right anyway!

Google Maps - https://goo.gl/maps/GMZMnkjmHRL2

 

[FatAlan]

My old grandad used to have the occasional pint in The Swinging Sporan which I believe is long gone.

 

[Toneyz]

Has it still got the long escalator/ramp thingy for trolleys? That's all I remember as a kid, not quite as fun at Gatwick's conveyors, but close!

Yes

 

[Toneyz]

My old grandad used to have the occasional pint in The Swinging Sporan which I believe is long gone.

sure has when they did the extension.

 

[FatAlan]

I’ll never forget the last thing my old grandad said to me just before he kicked the bucket ......











‘ I wonder how far I can kick that bucket! ‘ ...,.... I love stories with happy endings