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Started: 12th Aug 2014 at 16:58
Last edited by GOLDEN BEAR: 14th Apr 2015 at 16:58:47

Posted by: dodger (3414)

There was a shop and a row of cottages which were demolished and replaced with a new building which is now Bargain Booze, and what is now the veg shop was Graham Fairhursts electrical shop.

Replied: 12th Aug 2014 at 19:21

Posted by: greenfingers (896) 

i thinks in the 70 s this biulding was edwin p lees and the bus stop was about thirty yards further up in front of houses

Replied: 12th Aug 2014 at 21:01

Posted by: kathpressey (5590) 

you might find some information in the walking days photos

Replied: 13th Aug 2014 at 09:07

Posted by: GOLDEN BEAR (6555) 

Thank Kath for the info the shop you refer to was a Mrs.Baxters, as for the cottages so quaintly described I was born in about the middle of them, No460. Please excuse me for the off the cuff remark's I really liked how you expressed them as cottages. In fact they were horrible to live in,the loo was out at the back across the "yard" which were all in a line and the back of those was the RAVIN CLUB which is still there. I will take a look for some photo's were you advised ,but Kath seeing as you were aware of that area,did you ever recall a " tall lamp post in the centre of the road at the junction of TUNSTALL LANE & ORMSKIRK ROAD??? IF ANY ONE DOES IT WILL BE MUCH APPRECIATED by the way was born there December 1947.

Replied: 16th Aug 2014 at 03:34

Posted by: kathpressey (5590) 

I don't remember the lamppost. My memories of that area are the library, the pictures Rylances shop and the dentsist somewhere along there.I remember racing to the shop in Tunstall lane to get a pomegranate.

Replied: 17th Aug 2014 at 09:22

Posted by: GOLDEN BEAR (6555) 

did you get your pomegranate kath? I seem to recall pulling a made-up cart along and collecting jam jars if you got over a certain quota you would be able to go to the carlton cinema on Saturday morning and watch FLASH GORDON and EMPEROR MING oh those days I did like them.

Replied: 31st Aug 2014 at 06:22

Posted by: kathpressey (5590) 

I remember the word going around Highfield school that pomegranites were in. So we ran home and begged then raced up Tunstall Lane to a little shop on the left, the home to eat them with a pin!I remember collecting jam jars too and taking them to our local shop by the Railway pub. Happy days

Replied: 31st Aug 2014 at 09:41

Posted by: Bradshaws Girl (130)

Hello Golden Bear
Have only just seen your post otherwise would have replied earlier...... are you sure this lampost was at the junction with Tunstall lane? I lived at 502 Ormskirk Road and as you came down the road from Pemberton just before the Halfway House pub there where bollards in the middle of the road with a lampost inbetween the bollards. Is this what you are thinking of? I only lived there from 1966 to 1974 so maybe i've got this wrong.

Replied: 1st Sep 2014 at 10:49

Posted by: carol gr (910) 

My Auntie Marion and Uncle george lived at 504, and my Grandma at 506 at the same time you were there. I spent a lot of time at their houses.

Replied: 1st Sep 2014 at 21:58

Posted by: Bradshaws Girl (130)

Hi Carol gr
I remember Marion and George and their son David. He was killed in a cycling accident if I remember correctly.
My dad carried on living there after I left to get married. Later on he moved to Grosvenor Court and so did Marion and George.I remember Marion's dad as well.

Replied: 2nd Sep 2014 at 08:13

Posted by: biosphere (17)

Sorry dodger, what is now Bargain Booze was Graham Fairhust's shop. I can remember this back to the mid 1960s.

Replied: 2nd Sep 2014 at 09:27

Posted by: dodger (3414)

I disagree Biosphere, when I lived in Tunstall lane in the forties and fifties, I remember Fairhursts being at the end of the row, I started Highfield school with a lad who lived in one of the houses where Bargain Booze is now.

Replied: 2nd Sep 2014 at 11:14
Last edited by dodger: 2nd Sep 2014 at 11:26:42

Posted by: nana jacqui (3601) 

The veg shop used to be Graham Fairhursts as dodger says

Replied: 2nd Sep 2014 at 16:23

Posted by: dodger (3414)

That is correct, Jacqui, the shop that was Blockbuster and is now Bargain Booze is number 460-464 Ormskirk road, and replaced the houses where Golden bear was born.

Replied: 2nd Sep 2014 at 17:18

Posted by: GOLDEN BEAR (6555) 

Hello Bradshaws Girl,thank you for that it looks like that's about the nearest we are going to get. you must have lived 22 house's up from me so that would be opposite that road which goes down to doctors today??? (Sherwood drive)?
has for you dodger am I the one you used to go t
o highfield that's where I went too!! if you all cast your minds back from graham fairhurst shop was 1.mr&mrs fallows 2kids jean & keith, mr & mrs Callaghan I can remember a joyce bro ??? mr & mrs winstanley 2boys Wilfred&alan 2 girls Margaret& and anne mr mrs hardaker no kids?? mrs baxters shop 1 son stuart, then a awful mrs Atherton ,then the house's "stepped up" that's what we called them oppo pub H/H ,finally this lamp post riddle is my eldest bro wilf says there was one there definitely but no one recalls it. He says at end of war people danced round it but I think he might mean the one in fron) of Carnegie library!!!again thanks to ( nana jasqui)( dodger ) (biosphere) (kath)
and finally bradshaws girl who are you????

Replied: 4th Sep 2014 at 18:20

Posted by: jarvo (30250) 

Hursts shop was where the car park is now. It was just in front of the Carlton facing the junction between Tunstall Lane and Ormskirk Road South.

Replied: 4th Sep 2014 at 21:15

Posted by: dodger (3414)

Ormskirk road south, Jarvo, there was no such place

Do you mean the shop on the corner of Ormskirk road and Tunstall Lane?

Replied: 4th Sep 2014 at 23:32

Posted by: GOLDEN BEAR (6555) 

Your spot on dodger..

Replied: 5th Sep 2014 at 15:51

Posted by: GOLDEN BEAR (6555) 

Hello Bradshaw sorry for late reply,i was born at then 460 ormskirk road, which to be accurate is today the video shop, if you were to stand at the greengrocer's shop adjacent to video store and pace about 15 or so steps that will place you around half-way or wee bit past half-way that's where 460 was ,now go back to greengroceryou have tunstall lane on your right between there and crossing to the carlton that's the middle point where I wish to know was there a tall lamp in the centre in tit long winded lol
I hope its a bit clearer time span has to be 1945 -1955.
ok byeee.

Replied: 30th Oct 2014 at 03:20

Posted by: carol gr (910) 

The bus stop used to be further up the road outside of a shop which is now a private house. If you look on google maps it shows the location of the bus stop where it originally was.

Replied: 30th Oct 2014 at 08:03

Posted by: jarvo (30250) 

Carol: the shop you mention was a women's clothes shop if I remember rightly. And the bus stop was facing Abbott and Smith.

Replied: 30th Oct 2014 at 08:15

Posted by: rio caroni (5077) 

Abbott and Smith was previously Rylance's, remember going there for a paper during the Wakes week

Replied: 30th Oct 2014 at 21:43

Posted by: stars (432) 

was the womens clothes shop owned by mrs bott
if i remember it was, EDNA BOTT on the sign above the shop

Replied: 31st Oct 2014 at 11:23
Last edited by stars: 31st Oct 2014 at 11:25:37

Posted by: jarvo (30250) 

Yes. It was.

Replied: 31st Oct 2014 at 11:36

Posted by: GOLDEN BEAR (6555) 

Thanks for all these comments I may have forgot to tell you but it's my 77 year old brother who is determined the damn lamp post was at the top of tunstall lane as it meets ormskirk road so with all your help im hoping to change his mind. But I reckon I still have ajob on mi hands again cheers like I say a photo would put beyond doubt!!!!!!!!

Replied: 10th Nov 2014 at 21:23

Posted by: momac (12409) 

Sorry I can't help you Golden Bear but have you looked at the photo's of pemberton on 'Album'..you might find something there.

Replied: 12th Nov 2014 at 09:10

Posted by: GOLDEN BEAR (6555) 

Thank you momac and everyone else cheers...

Replied: 12th Nov 2014 at 16:33

Posted by: hapax (5)

Hello,
this is my first message, and I am responding to your post on the 10th regarding Wilfred Clarke. Wilreds parents were Edward Clarke and Margaret Ann Edwards.Edward died in the first quarter of 1911, Margaret Ann married George Powell at the end of december that same year. They had five daughters who survived into adulthood, Evelyn, Nellie,Hannah, Peggy and Lena. I am the oldest grand daughter of Nellie and I am called after my great grandmother. My mother, also Margaret has a concertina that Wilfred played while he was in the trenches.

Replied: 12th Nov 2014 at 18:24

 

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