How about a Lost Shop’s Spot, shops people remember from childhood that are no longer going.
I can start them off with a few and get people to write in or send photographs.
La Rendezvous
The old town market café was called La Rendezvous, every Friday dinnertime I had the wonderful sausage chips and beans, the sausage were big thick pork ones, delicious.
The speciality of the house seemed to be the toasted bacon sandwich, and the ladies would call the meals out with practised voices, that echoed round the small packed café on a rainy afternoon in Runcorn.
After dinner I would sit by the window watching the buses go by and wish I could go home early from work.
Then I would go back to the shop with bean stains on my shirt and tie and toast crumbs round my chin so they always knew what I had been doing.
As a footnote the first owner had to sell up a few years back because they the local people go the silly idea he was the Yorkshire ripper, because he went to Yorkshire a lot.
Lots of stories behind the shop fronts, like a well known sweet shop owner ended up in court for straggling his dog.
Runcorn has its darker side sometimes.
Sent to us by Chris Darlington, local resident and writer
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