Well, a trip down Great Knolly's Street, to be more precise. After supervising the visit of a BBC TV News film crew to an apartment block site at the end of Friar Street I couldn't resist nipping just around the corner to check out the old Thimbleby & Shorland haunts.
It's so long since I was down that way I wasn't sure I was on the street until I reached the T&S H&Q. Unlike much of the rest of the street it still looks the same and very smart. As I lurked I think that Richard Dance came out. He began as the office junior with me in summer 1984 and is now a partner, Mum says. The Red Lion next door has gone and on the other side is a small set of units for garagey-type businesses. The entrance to the market is just the same and brought the memories flooding back. I also checked out the Market Cafe.
It's so long since I was down that way I wasn't sure I was on the street until I reached the T&S H&Q. Unlike much of the rest of the street it still looks the same and very smart. As I lurked I think that Richard Dance came out. He began as the office junior with me in summer 1984 and is now a partner, Mum says. The Red Lion next door has gone and on the other side is a small set of units for garagey-type businesses. The entrance to the market is just the same and brought the memories flooding back. I also checked out the Market Cafe.
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| The building is so unmodified I wonder if it's the subject of some sort of conservation order. |
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| Remember sprinting through the green door with the slips. |
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| Listed in the Egon Ronay guide by now, surely. |
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| Nice touch - on a side road off Great Knollys Street. Not so much of mural as a "moo-ral". Ha, ha, ha. What appropriately lush grass too. |
Wow, like going in to a time machine. Not just T&S biut all the market associated places as well. Wonder how much longer... Shame also they couldn't have made the moo-ral (good gag BTW) an Ayrshire.
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