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Photo: emmapenn
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houses on crooke

Comment by: Christine Reddington on 5th August 2007 at 22:24

I don`t recognise where it is taken.

Comment by: emmapenn on 5th August 2007 at 22:39

where the houes end now and the field begins there used to be houses these are two of them i think after a lot got knocked down

Comment by: tommy39 on 5th August 2007 at 22:44

it's the top end of crooke [woodcock row]it was a row of 26 houses and these are the last 3 standing .sadly these got knocked down shortly after the hoto was taken

Comment by: Alan Cheetham on 6th August 2007 at 12:41

This picture is taken from close to the canal bridge looking towards Gathurst. There is a house, the only one on the other side of the canal. That house would be to the left but just off the picture. It is correct that the few houses one can see are the remains of what was Woodcock Row. Sadly demolished many years ago.

Does anyone here know me? I grew up in Shevington. My parents and older borthers lives at 79 Crooke Village in the late 1950s which is opposite the Crooke Hall Inn.

I always had horses as a child in the 1960s and 1970s. We kept them on an allotment at the back of the pub.

I have now lived in Germany for 27 years but would love to hear from anyone who knows or remembers me.

Alan

Comment by: alan b on 8th August 2007 at 15:53

the photo is taken directly opposite what used to be the old coal hopper, where the barges used to get loaded up from the nearby pit

Comment by: paul wilson on 22nd February 2008 at 06:14

i remember you alan and your family.we lived at 67 crooke and went the village school and later shevington high school.my mother irene still lives there and recently yvonne moved from there to scotland.paul wilson

Comment by: Julie Gibson...myers on 12th May 2008 at 22:58

Hi, just been reading some of the comments, I think i remember you, your name certanly rings a bell I live at the top of crooke, there was the royal oak pub then the duck pond its the house on the corner after the pond, I have a brother Allan myers,I think he would know you a little better than me I still live in the same house today we moved back home a few years to look after mum n dad sadly dad passed away 4 years ago but we still look after mum nice to hear from you

Comment by: chris marsden on 12th July 2008 at 13:04

does anyone know of the Green family who lived in Crooke, father was a clogmaker?probably about early 1900's I think the houses were pulled down. my sisters in laws were Edna and John green. who later lived in Inward drive. shevington.

Comment by: mike thomas on 14th March 2013 at 17:28

Hello Alan i remember you, you use to come to our house in shevington my mum and dad is Brenda @ Gerrard Thomas

Comment by: Kevin Barker on 12th February 2018 at 06:32

My Grandma and Grandad lived at 25 Woodcock Row Harry and May Barker, we lived at no 5 Woodcock Row until the rest of the Row was pulled down. That was my mum and dad Harry and Brenda and my brothers Terry and Alan. We moved to Princess Road just a 5 minute walk away

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