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The Gate posts of Sacred Heart Church Hall on Crabtree
In 1st place .. Brenda
In 2nd place .. Peter
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Thursday 17 September 2009
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Evening all. I've had a new postcard in from Andy which I will have on the site later tonight ..it needs a bit of touching up (don't we all!) It shows Woodlands Ave and is another view I've not seen before. There are a couple of shops on there and it must have changed beyond all recognition so will have to go and have a look see to try and spot whereabouts it was taken from.
Now for the Quiz ... and the answer is
Now for the Quiz ... and the answer is
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Re: shops on woodlands ave, there was a fruit & Veg shop and a wallpaper/paint shop at the rossendale ave end, the first 2 houses after the Farm house, and there was another shop further down on the end of grange ave.
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i also remember the shops on woodlands just as said above can,t remember what the shop on the corner of grange was used to pass it every day on the way to school.
ReplyDeleteIt must have been before my time as at first I even wondered if it was 'our' Thornton. Am just working on the photo now but am cooking tea as well so will be on later.
ReplyDeletemelanie your a nightmare ive searched thornton today , and ive been down crabtree about ten times ! and ive still missed it !!!! oh and the shops on woodlands must have been before my time to ! far to young !! cheers all regards andy
ReplyDeleteCirca 1930s/40s.1st shop passed Cliff Morris's farm was a grocers knew it well, a little further on the left was Kirby&Perrys Haulage firm,
ReplyDeleteThe shop on the corner of Rosendale/ Lawsons Rd was also a grocers,Run By a Mrs Large,
Bain of my life always complaining about cow muck on the road.
i can,t find the post card photo of woodlands ave, have you hidden it somewhere .
ReplyDeleteHi Mike
ReplyDeleteSorry I did it but didn't link it up. It's there now.
Nice photo shame it no longer looks like that. just sent you a couple of pics Melanie i have just found not sure if you have seen them before or not.
ReplyDeleteRe; Woodlands, it seems the dim and distant past is catching up with me!!! The photo was taken from the corner of Rosendale North/Lawsons Rd corner is of the two shops previously mentioned next to Cliff Morris's farm (The hedge and the wall are were the farm House stands)if you look farther down on the left you can see the entrance to Kirby & Perrys.Incidentally my brother inlaw delivered milk to the first shop and was a friend of the family.
ReplyDeleteHey James i know just what you are saying about the past catching up with you, when you see a photo from the past that you can relate to it just takes you right back to that time, i remember the shops well from back in the early 70,s and would love to see some more pic,s of the area from around the 60,s and 70,s period.
ReplyDeleteHi Micheal, I recall the carpet shop was Pete Sumners Bike shop he also charged battery's the acumerator type only way to power a radio a lot of houses in little thornton did'nt have electricity including my Nans (Gas lighting only) right up to the 50s. The Home Brew shop was Unsworths Chemist. Spar was a Cake Shop next door was a sweet and tobaconists. And Large's the grocers on Rosendale corner and Billy's market across the road
ReplyDeleteSpent many an evening in Sumners doorway with my girl friend after comming out of the Bug Hut,(The verona)There was a saying if a cat jumped on your knee in the bug hut dont stroke it, it'll be a rat.
hHasppy days
hi james i remember fairdeal being, vin duckets, and billy,s market, the last i remember of the home brew shop it was a mini market type thing and further along on the corner of bancroft and lawsons road was another corner shop that sold all sort,s of things. would love to see some photo,s of some of those places.
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ReplyDeletethe Spar was two house's with gardens and front wall,next on the left was Brewers Bakers and then Vin Duckets. on the corner of Rossendale was Large's shop and then became a spar shop and then an ironmongers for a while, next to that was shepards butchers and then nxt was a wool shop and then a sweet shop, where my fav person worked Hilda she was a lovely lady. I was always in that shop in the 60's and Jordans shop across the road.
J D-Allen
Hi Anon,I'm talking about the 30s/40s,not the 60s, dont know what was going on here in the 50s/60s I overseas in the Regular Army, Malaya and Korea,The way this country's turned out i think i was on the wrong side ! ! !
ReplyDeletePete Sumners was there before WW2 long before VinDucket.doubt if Vin had been born then. Pete used to have a hand primed petrol pump outside. Vin Ducket move to Anchorshome lane later . The shop on the corner of Rosendale as i have said was Larges had a row with her every day rgarding cow muck on the road.
Hi james i remember the petrol pump it was still there when it was vin ducket,s i used to fill up my moped there. also remember jordans that,s where i got my sweets in the early 70,s someone somewhere must have some photo,s of this area.
ReplyDeleteHi Michael,Different sort of scooter when Pete Sumner was around. You put one foot on it and pushed with the other.My aunt Edna had boxes of old photos and old copies of the Thornton Cleveleys Gazette,they disappeared when she passed away, used to spend many happy hour with her remembering the past.
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