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I think you will find that this is Warrington Rd Thomas. Walthew Lane started immediately to the rear of where Roberts DIY is.

It is Warrington Rd Tom - I used to live in it. Keep 'em coming bye the way.

Sorry, no wonder I can never find my way home from Netto.

I can just see the corner of Car Street on the left there, I was born in that street at no. 12!

This pic looks like it is around the beginning of the end for that part of Platt Bridge. The Chippie on the corner of Miller's Lane has gone... and so too the newsagents on the corner of Platt Street. Pretty soon after this the old butchers shop (where the ad hoarding is) and the terrace behind the bus went down as well.

That was part one of the loss of the old Platt Bridge... part 2 was when Platt Street became the main road and the bottom of Walthew Lane was basically cut off.

This part of the row of houses where Rose terrace, Warrington Road, Abram.

Barbera... trust me, that is not Abram. It is Warrington Rd for sure, but that is Platt Bridge. It is just over the road from the old Co-Op... or 'Kworkp' as I have been instructed to call it.

I lived in this row for 24 years. Our address was Abram.

Sorry dennis, It really was Rose terrace ABRAM, My aunt Nellie Liptrot lived at no 3 Rose terrace warrington rd abram and we lived at 1/3 2arrington rd platt bridge hindley and later at the newsagents at the top of platt st. The butchers was Tom Frew who owned a farm at dover lock Abram. Just across from the butchers was Bolans pies and the co-op.

Just a thought Dennis, Did you used to live in Car St where bolans shop was on the corner? At the Abram end of Rose Terrace was a shop called Conroys (next to salters chemists) but which never was called that. it was known as GONUPS because when I was a kid between the wars every time you went in the shop and ask for something uou were greeted by Sorry lad its gonup agin!!

What a fantastic picture for memory lane! Me and Eric Thompson who later had his own decorating business employing dozens, once went to decorate a house as a favour for an old lady who lived at the start of Rose Lane (Platt Bridge, Hindley, by the way) opposite the co-op on the corner of New Street. It was running with damp and we decided we couldn't do anything but re-plaster. Eric took a lump hammer and hit the wall for starters and the whole lot fell away from floor to ceiling, revealing a seething, living mass of thousands of cockroaches. Don't know where they went but they'd gone in seconds - I'll never forget it. I jumped back like a scalded cat! Used to go to t'co-op to collect our "divi" for my mother - they were metal tokens in those days. (We lived at 40, New Street, next door to Shaw's and later to belong to Anne Connaughton from Abram, I believe (Anderson shelter in back garden for anybody who has it now).
Used to go to t'chippy on the corner of Millers Lane with a basin every Friday (Catholics - Friday - no meat!) Can't remember the name of the lady who had it for years and years. And also used to play on the sacks of flour in Edwards Bakery at the top of our street, with the lad who presumably, later owned it.
And what happened to Bolan's - it was a bakery, by the way? I know they molved away - because I fell in love with Alexandra Bolan - she was a stunner - and never saw her again!

HI JEFF,IT WAS LILY RICKETS WHO OWNED THE CHIPPY ,BEST CHIPS IN PLATT BRIDGE,I USED TO PLAY SNOOKER IN THE BILLIARD HALL WITH YOUR PETER WHEN YOU LIVED IN NEW ST.AS A MATTER OF INTEREST THERE HAVE BEEN TEN CHIPPYS IN PLATT BRIDGE OVER THE YEARS, HOW IS YOUR PETER KEEPING.

At last I've found a reference to Rose Terrace, Platt Bridge and not only that but a photograph. My grandparents lived at number 11 and each summer in the 50s and 60s we travelled down from here in the north of Scotland to visit family. I knew that the houses were demolished and replaced by Netto but I'm so delighted to see an old photo. If anyone else has photos or information on my Dad's family I'd be pleased to hear from you. Dad was Edward known here as Ted but Eddy in Platt Bridge) and he had an older sister Alice and younger brother Norman. Finding this photo has made my day!!

Ancestors of mine, the Orrell family, lived in No.7 Rose Terrace in the 1910s. They referred to their address as Abram. I don't know the area at all.