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cant recal stantons in white st.

I remember being told that two lads who were having a fight rolled into the road and was killed by a bus, and that's why they put up those railings along the pavement on the right hand side of the road. Anyone know if this was true.

The milk float belonged to Richmond Hill Dairies of Richmond Hill, Pemberton which is just off picture. I spent some very happy times working there as a boy.

Stanton's was a general grocery store, was there until the early 1980's.

Stantons made crumpet and meal cake and pies.
THe people that died was the black bull was there and it was a real bottlenneck.

Stantons used to make crumpets, meal-cakes,chicken pasties and potato cakes behind the shop, I can taste them now!! Bill Stanton was knocked down on the crossing near Asda and he died from his injuries. He was 90 at the time.

yes cyril its true about the deaths, were the rails are there used to be a cafe used mainly by youths with a juke box, a novelty at the time, a fight which ended outside under a bus. hence the railings.

Yes, Cyril, the story is true. They were fighting in the road and it was a Ribble bus that killed them. They were not very old either.

Chuff, do you remember to paople that worked at the dairy called Dick Bennet and Ken Greenway? Ken is a relative and Dick lived next door to me in Leader Street. Didn't Stantons have someone walking the streets with a basket full of potatoe cakes and crumpets etc knocking on doors?

Ken Greenway was my Mum's cousin who sadly passed away earlier this year. If your Mum was Martha then we are related. My Mum was Betty Gee and your Grandma Bradshaw was my Granddad Gee's sister. She kept the off licence on Ormskirk Road, Pemberton.