NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Dec 1998 00:59:00 GMT X-Complaints-To: [email removed] X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Xref: pale-rider.INS.CWRU.Edu uk.local.teesside:73 Hahaha... "Sheila Irvine" should have known I'd reply to this thread in uk.local.teesside. This was on Wed, 2 Dec 1998 21:15:12 -0000, by the way.: > >Alan J. wrote in message ... >>> > >>OK, let's get off to a flying start! Is the town centre (shopping >>centre) still >>there? I heard it was going to be roofed over. I've heard rumours that >>there are >>lot's of crap wine bars in Pool now, seems to be a fad............. (Snip) >> <homesick rating: 71%> >> >Good God man, you've hoyed that lot at me - let me pick myself up off the floor! >The shopping centre you mean is probably Middleton Grange, built fronting onto >Stockton Street. It's been roofed for a couple of years now and I must say it's >a good place, full of every kind of shop and good cafes. Definately better than what it used to be - it went through a stage in the mid '90s where most of the shops were empty, but it picked itself back up... >I still hanker after the Saturday afternoon place to be, which was the Musgrave >Street, Lynn Street, Church Street meander, Ahhh, Fast Snax! They did the biggest chip butties I have *ever* seen. For £1. And a can of pop thrown in. And even sometimes free gravy! The best fast food / take away place in Hartlepool? The best chinese HAS to be the "Blossom Garden" near Hart Lane... They easily have the best curry I have ever tasted in my life. Thanks, Jamie
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