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Chapel Lane from N.W, Station
Chapel Lane from N.W, Station
Photo: Kevin Higgins
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Item #: 5768
Chapel Lane during the demolition of the old LNWR Goods Shed, taken in 1983. Does anyone remember the cycle shop on the corner of Princess Street? They used to serve petrol through hoses stretched across the footpath.
Not much in the way of health and safety, although I don't any remember fires there!
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Comment by: Mick on 2nd April 2008 at 20:10

Was that Melling's cycle shop?

Comment by: Norman Eastham on 3rd April 2008 at 07:17

I think the cycle shop belonged to Jack Watson

Comment by: Jim Latham on 3rd April 2008 at 07:52

What about Jack Watson's cycle shop. Does that ring a bell! It was on the corner of Chapel Lane and Princess St.

Comment by: Mick on 3rd April 2008 at 11:17

That was it; Jack Watson's. Thanks!

Comment by: Haydn F on 24th July 2008 at 21:09

The cycle shop did belong to Jack Watson and I think he had a son named Lewis.Near to the shop was a pub called The Bear`s Paw,after it closed down as a pub the police caught someone printing counterfeit dollars in the cellar

Comment by: kevin snalam on 16th October 2008 at 22:26

jack watson had two sons,,jimmy and malcolm, they were buddies of mine, i lived a couple of doors away from his shop, good memories..

Comment by: Mr X on 24th April 2019 at 23:13

Chapel Lane being widened for the new ring road. The cooling towers dominate this picture. The railway bridge in Chapel Lane was only about 10 feet high and that forbid lorries and buses going that way until the road was lowered in the 1960s.

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