How times...

[Pat Harley]

Trying to think what the place on the opposite corner was called. It shut about '77 I think,maybe The Victoria or something. So many of the old places gone now,there seemed to be one on every corner and a few in between on every street then suddenly bugger all!

[billS]

Alas it’s called “the modern day”

[Don the Mod]

Was the battlecruiser originally called "The Globe" Bob? A remember that, a reight dingy oyle.

The Globetrotter Dave, down the spiral stairs to the bar?

[Dave Burgess]

Bob sez that,s the one Don, a reight shitoyle in my time.

[Pat Harley]

It remained a shithole to the end Dave,although one bloke bought it and tried to turn it into a posh destination with chesterfield settees in it. He told me he hoped to attract the rich types from Camberly etc,and banned The Reg at first. I pointed out to him that the posho's wouldn't want to wade through the vomit filled streets past The Queens,George,Exchange,Traff and Rat Pit to reach his place,and he soon gave up and let the lads back in to trash his posh furniture and carpets! It just gave Racy Tracy something better to hold onto rather than a bar stool as she was getting back scuttled!

[bob9739]

Last time I did the ten miler, Aldershot had changed a lot due to rebuilding in the town centre, Remember that old department store "Whites" used to be next door to M&S, all gone now. Used to take the kids in there because they had a tropical fish tank in the coffee shop. Bairns loved it spent ages just gazing at the thing, nearly needed a crow bar to prise them out!

[Dave Burgess]

Iz the Arcade still theer n the flea pit pic house further up towards the Queens?

[Pat Harley]

The picture house became a happy clappy church early 80's,not sure about the arcade and of course Bill and Rusty Scuse's tattoo parlour!

[bob9739]

Remember seeing old Arthur English walking down the high street, not see him now of course unless somebody digs him up!

[Pat Harley]

And of course Charlie Chaplin first appeared as a child on the stage in a tented theatre in Aldershot! (Pete remembers it well!)

[Dave Burgess]

Charlie Chaplin n Arthur English in the Shot? No wonder Danny The Chop tried ta mek every fukker a Yul Bryner lookalike!