A song from simpler and trusting times. Arrange to meet a girl, hopefully avoiding having to call her house on the landline and have the mother or father answer and ask who it is.
For some reason, girls didn’t like to go into pubs on their own, so you’d arrange a meet. Obviously in Hawley’s song, it was Cole’s Corner, in Sheffield. Growing up in York, there were various locations depending on which bus stop they were getting off at. But a middle ground meeting point was outside M&S on Parliament Street. I’m sure wherever you grew up, there were similar meeting points.
