Calling names, please

Again this is out-of-area but there was a family firm of builders in somewhere like Bolton, and the family were of Indian subcontinent descent. They all wore t-shirts emblazoned ‘You’ve had the cowboys, now try the Indians!’

It never ceases to amaze me how many so-called scousers get amazed themselves when they see the man up the ladder in Berry Street, and think he's real. You know who you are!

Nah, the Angel on Dale was a pub that was mysteriously popular with women who worked in offices. It had a disco at lunchtime (whilst the lads sank at least three pints each before trudging back to work).There used to be an undertakers in St. Oswald Street, Old Swan (opposite where Tesco is now) that was ‘R. Graves’. Not a humorous invention, but an amazing coincidence or a self-fulfilling prophecy.

How about "The Bra Detective" In Ormskirk Market Hall? "Large or Small We Find 'Em All!

That last one is my favourite. Uncanny that you should choose to do a story on Farther Treads the very day that the Craggy Island festival in honour of the great, late man gets under way. Maybe he is still with us somewhere.

There used to be a 'Curl Up and Dye' around Old Swan or West Derby. Is it still in the phone book? (I haven't seen a phone book for years)

There is a dogroomers on Brodie Avenue called wait fot it...........Doggie Style

There is a shop in Montpellier city centre with an English name which is supposed to be trendy - a bit like English shops with French names. It is a sports shoe supplier and its name is Athlete's Foot.

How about Hairlucinations hair salon in the feckin' Bootle Strand.

My favourite is "Big Baps" sarnie shop on Prescot Road. It's funny cos it sounds like boobs.

I know it is not even close to Liverpool but the best sign is in Pant Wales. Reading 'Pant accident repair'. Brilliant!!

There's a hairdressers in Fenwick Street called "Good Head"...They're not allowed to have their number in the Yellow pages apparently!

And does anyone remember the two adjacent shops in Dale Street in the late 1980s...one was called Angel - and sold cakes - the other was a wine merchant called Gabriel's....the two signs lined up, it was a corker.....

Bit left of field but I once saw a chinese restaurant in Amsterdam called the Foo King - honest! I have a photo of it

I used to be a big BBC fan. Bootle Barge Company.

My favourite is the sandwich shop on East Prescot Road near Sainsburys called Sarnie Schwarzeneger's

If you drive north from the city centre, there is a big sign for tyres and exhausts at the side of Great Howard Street. In a desperate attempt to attract people's attention, the sign says tyreSEXhausts.

I saw a septic tank lorry in Bootle , the wonderfully lyrical slogan on the side of the vehicle said , " WE ARE NO.1 AT LOOKING AFTER YOUR NO.2's " Hideous !!

There is a hairdresser-cum-tanning parlour in Birkenhead's Argyle Street called 'Brown Bits and Snippets'. Rather than making me laugh it makes me feel rather queasy.

Great one ere there's a footy team that plays in red, called liverpool f cHa Ha halerious.

I used to be a big BBC fan. Bootle Barge Company.

Remember the Monty Carlo chippie on Upper Stanhope Street? Anoter casulaty of so-called "regeneration"!

Ok, then. What about Bell End Farm in Pickering, Yorks?

I can't believe the highly amusing 'Jamaican Me Hungry' on Lark Lane has been overlooked! Best appreciated with full-on Jamaican accent after several vinos (or should that be Red Stripe?).

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Well if you're talking about faraway places like Crosby then I'll mention the letter that fell off the wall of the 'Janus' restaurant in Ludlow...

Ha, wot about the pub just off breck road called the Cockwell Inn. The name has been changed now its just called the Cockwell.

Jeff Badger - did you really have to explain that one?

I do remember the Monte Carlo. You could get a "loosey" in there for 10p on your way home from the Casa. They sold everything, washing up liquid, tea towels.Now there is the amusingly named World On A Plate around the corner, which, ladies, if you happen to be having a baby, or stuck in the Womens having your plumbing sorted, should be the first port of call for a takeaway when you realise you are not going to be able to stomach the food in the hozzie. Ugh.

That's awful. What about John Lennon Airport?

Well if you're talking about faraway places like Crosby then I'll mention the letter that fell off the wall of the 'Janus' restaurant in Ludlow...

There used to bean accountants in Woolton called Bent. That's just what you want, isn't it?

Apologies - AE Scouseman is right about the Angel. It was a pub but there certainly was a shop called Gabriel's next door. Although, perhaps I'd spent too long in the Angel and then imagined I was in heaven chatting to God's stormtrooper chap.

Agreed. Very sad. A shame they don't have more of a sense of humour these people.

I like the new Plaice to Meat restaurant on Allerton Road

There used to be a shop around our way called 'Post Office', it's not there any more though!

Whatever happened to 'L for Leather'? And who remembers the glorious clothing emporium 'Sexy Rexies'? Come to think of it whatever happened to Barbara Daley and Bohn Books which are now being demolished and instead of a shiny impressive tower we are going to have it all paved over.

I'm reminded of the delicatessen in Bled in Slovenia called Shit Food.

go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on

Ah yes, Big Baps opposite Green Lane! Always causes a jug-related chortle!

How about R. S. Cape Funeral Directors in South Road, Waterloo

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There's a hairdressers in Crosby village called Hair By Snips. Not particularly funny, except the two letter S's dropped off once. For about a year the sign read "Hair by nip".

Well, i know a classic one, it's actually in Helsby, but it always makes me laugh. It's a laundry pressing service called ' iron maiden' haha x

What about the El Passo Driving School in Woolton. Yeehaw!

I remember that. It was on That's Life!

How about....R.S.Cape - Funeral Directors on South Road, Waterloo.WAGS - Dogs' Washing And Grooming salon on Eaton Road, West Derby.....?

Father Treads is undoubtedly the best - but check out the dog grooming place Ultimutt on Smithdown and Phairverts on Bold Street. Genius!

And now for 'Father Jack's' off licence....Drink, Drink, Drink, Feck....

Have you seen the corner shop by Seacombe Ferry called Singhsburys. Ho ho!

Surely the last call on out of town 'corking business names'...but there was one on the island of Iona that I longed to nick....it was a sign outside the only pub....The Martyrs' Bay Bar.......a quick snifter before the crucifixion presumably.

Of all the signs in Liverpool, the 'nortons for crap' sign on the Dock Road was easily the best. I think it is sad thats it has been covered up for 2008! www.newfolder.co.uk/…/crap-hidden-for-2008.html…