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Bring back Costies!
I miss 50p worth of winegums!

I miss the bon bons

Soor plooms for me!

Was this picture taken out of the back window of your van, Alan?

Brings back loads of good memories

I miss it too, but I dont miss working there!

3 old pence for a single Regent fag from the then owner Jim Spence, another 6 pence (a tanner )for a game of snooker, another fag after the game and that was the end of your shilling ( a bob).
All that for the equivalent of todays 5p.
Who said we didn't know how to "enjoy" ourselves?

Many years of "mis-spent youth" spent there by myself as I lived so near at the end of Victoria Street. When young used to get paid in ice creams by parents to look after their babies in prams and young children whilst they played tennis. Later taught how to play snooker and billiards by the regulars and I did many pencil sketches and paintings of the folk who were regulars there - all sketches and paintings now lost more's the pity. The snooker chalk was used as eye shadow by us teenage girls as we couldn't afford to buy the real thing. Many happy memories of Costies.

Many a sunday afternoon spent playing snooker there, during my mis-spent youth

The oyster icecreams were fab what happened to the rendel family that owned it in 1988

Rendall!!

Spelling mistake, sorry didn't want to offend people . I am looking for Stuart Rendall, he was a good friend of mine.

Happy memories of going to Costies on a Sunday afternoon for crisps, sweeties and juice it was the only place open up the town on a Sunday at the time!(1970s)

Elaine, I think that both Crawfords cafe down at the corner of Bridge Street and the Central Cafe in Albert Street were open on Sundays as well.