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Photo-a-Day  (Sunday, 17th April, 2022)

Fine Dining


Fine Dining
Fine Dining, in Platt Bridge.

Photo: Mick Byrne  (Panasonic DMC-TZ100)
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Comment by: Syd Smith on 17th April 2022 at 07:11

I don't get it.

Comment by: Cyril on 17th April 2022 at 07:42

Platt Vegas?, doesn't seem all that long ago from when Ashton centre was so disorderly at weekends that it was nicknamed Ash Vegas.

Comment by: Poet on 17th April 2022 at 09:09

A long long time ago I can still remember
How the menu used to make me smile ,
And I knew that if I was klempt ,
There was tasty jackbit that would tempt ,
Maybe a Poole's pasty or a pie .

There was babbies yed and peys for dinner ,
Or a chip barm cake ( there was nothing finer )
The butties were like doorsteps ,
I couldn't do my kecks up .
I can't remember if I sobbed
When I saw a menu on the Isle of Dogs ,
There was nothing good to fill my gob ,
The day my appetite died .

O my my I miss Galloway's pies ,
Rode my bike from Shevy
Down to Peckham Rye ,
Where good ol' boys were eating
Eels in slime , singing
' Ere guvnor , give these a try ,
Blimey guv are you going to cry ? '

And they were singing ........

Comment by: Helen of Troy on 17th April 2022 at 09:19

Really ??

Comment by: irene roberts on 17th April 2022 at 10:02

I only live in Abram, just up the road from here but don't know what i's all about really. Hope someone from Platt Bridge can tell us some more. I've passed it on the way to Hindley and seen it mentioned on the Platt Bridge Facebook but not really sure of what it entails.

Comment by: Brendell on 17th April 2022 at 10:32

Is that what used to be the cinema in my youth?

Comment by: John G on 17th April 2022 at 10:48

It does appear out of character for the area, and the Mercedes car, and lad with the baseball cap that fits him like a glove speaks volumes.
But anything that helps the area and the people I would say go for it.
Business attracts other businesses then the area can start to tick.

Comment by: Veronica on 17th April 2022 at 10:48

Not been to Las Vegas but I was under the impression it's desert with palm trees! I've only been as far as NY and Vermont and Massachusetts, so I can't see the link. Unless it's a gamble when you order food! Perhaps it's served by an Elvis lookalike...

Comment by: DTease on 17th April 2022 at 11:37

It was supposed to be a “VEGAN” cafe, but Mick was consulted about the spelling.

Comment by: irene roberts on 17th April 2022 at 11:55

Poet, your version of American Pie , (or is it Platt Bridge Pie?). had me in stitches! Very cleverly written! There are plenty decent people in Platt Bridge and, as John G says, if anything can help the people there, go for it. Good luck to the organisers. Brendell, it WAS a cinema at one time, and was also a carpet shop at one point. We bought a carpet from there many years ago.

Comment by: Joan on 17th April 2022 at 13:25

Maybe Vegas, is a old name for a bridge, if it is we could start calling Appley Bridge, Appley Vegas.

Comment by: Jembo on 17th April 2022 at 13:51

Straight across the road from McDonalds - which will be challenging for it's appeal I suspect.

Comment by: TerryW on 17th April 2022 at 14:09

I wouldn't go if it was free.

Comment by: John G on 17th April 2022 at 14:12

Veronica: I can see what you mean like, If you order a steak, (love me tender, love me sweet.)
If you sit on a table on your own, (Are you lonely tonight). Or if your in Platt Vegas, (I wish I was in Dixie land away, away in Dixie.

Comment by: Veronica on 17th April 2022 at 14:40

Good one John G, Dtease could be right as well.
Which brings me to ' in 'The Ghetto'. ..and his mama cries, Cos if there's one thing she don't need is another hungry mouth to feed in 'The Ghetto'!
( not saying Platt Bridge is a 'ghetto' just in case like! )

Comment by: irene roberts on 17th April 2022 at 14:46

That was SO funny D'Tease! John G, you could serenade Veronica and I at our table in the cafe, .(.bring your guitar....)
"Are you lonesome tonight?
Is your bra strap to tight?
Are your corsets just drifting apart?
Have you got a big chest,
Making holes in your vest?
Does your spare tyre reach into the night?
Are your stockings all laddered?
Are you wearing them thin?
Do you hold up your knickers
With a big safety pin?
Are your false teeth all worn?
Do they drop when you yawn?
Well it's no wonder you're lonesome tonight! "

Comment by: Veronica on 17th April 2022 at 15:45

Not a truer word spoken Irene.. :o)!

Comment by: irene roberts on 17th April 2022 at 16:43

Just put it on to give people a laugh, Dolly dear! Happy Easter, my friend and all of you on Wigan World. xx

Comment by: John G on 17th April 2022 at 16:57

That’s very good Irene, the way you’ve strung the phrases together, (I like it). It’s nice to see you have a laugh, things get a bit serious on here some times.

Comment by: Edna on 17th April 2022 at 18:38

Irene, that was brilliant it beat the lot. It really made me laugh, loved it.xx

Comment by: irene roberts on 17th April 2022 at 18:43

I can't take the credit for that, John G... it isn't my work. I read it on facebook and it just tickled me and I thought it would just be a bit of fun. As you say, things get a bit serious on here sometimes, and we all need a laugh now and again. My late brother Ronnie used to sing a similar song to the tune of "After the ball is over" to make me laugh when I was a child.

Comment by: Veronica on 17th April 2022 at 19:42

I have heard it before Irene, I think it was some comedian in a club somewhere, it's really funny.
Happy Easter one and all.

Comment by: Roy on 17th April 2022 at 20:56

JOAN, Appley Bridge is known locally as the Little Apple as opposed to New York, the Big Apple.

Comment by: Cyril on 17th April 2022 at 23:59

Irene, I can remember hearing After the Ball was over too, but not all the words so looked it up:

After the ball was over, Bonnie took out her glass eye,
Put her false teeth in the water, hung up her wig to dry;
Placed her false arm on the table, laid her false leg on the chair;
After the party was over, Bonnie was only half there!

Another parody verse is:

After the ball was over, Bonnie took out her glass eye,
Put her false teeth in the basin, corked up a bottle of dye
Put her false leg in the corner, hung up her hair on the wall
And all that was left went to bye byes after the ball.

There's some clever wags out there.

Comment by: irene roberts on 18th April 2022 at 09:01

It's the second one that my brother used to sing, Cyril. Funnily enough, I watched Catherine Cookson's "The Fifteen Streets" yesterday on the telly, and a lady in the Music Hall sang the correct version but I sung along with the parody!

Comment by: Veronica on 18th April 2022 at 09:36

Comedians could get away with anything back in the day... so funny. But would they dare these days with the Woke generation? Even on 'Talking Pictures' on the box there's always apologies for the different times.

Comment by: irene roberts on 18th April 2022 at 09:58

So true, Veronica! We often watch the Talking Pictures channel and we are warned that "the following programme contains words and themes from a bygone age which some viewers may find offensive", and I sit all through the programme waiting to be shocked....I am invariably disappointed! But we have to either sit through totally unnecessary foul language on 90% of programmes after 9pm, or switch the telly off. Talk about "The Lunatics have taken over the Asylum!

Comment by: Veronica on 18th April 2022 at 12:26

Exactly Irene, there's far worse on the programmes in this day and age. I rarely watch anything on the box other than ytube which I can get on my tv. I love resorting to the old films. As for 'soaps' no thanks - so boring I could climb the walls..

Comment by: Methinks on 24th April 2022 at 20:30

I heard it became known as Platt Vegas when the bright lights of the American fast food chain of 'restaurants' - McDonald's opened.
Not 100% sure though.

Comment by: Chucky Egg on 23rd May 2022 at 14:40

Yes, when Mc Donald's opened, locals said it reminded them of Las Vegas, so Platt Wazz, was renamed Platt Vegas.

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