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In the backs, Ince, early sixties
In the backs, Ince, early sixties
Photo: Irene Roberts
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Item #: 20630
L-R: Pauline Shaw, Sandra Moorcroft, Christine Robinson, Joyce Gambles.

Comment by: Mary Roberts nee Shaw on 6th May 2012 at 19:12

oh i can see my little sis pauline an our bedroom window at the back of 75 ince green lane brilliant thanks irene

Comment by: Mary Roberts nee Shaw on 6th May 2012 at 19:46

irene Help am i right about this pic ?

Comment by: irene roberts on 6th May 2012 at 21:58

Yes, Mary, that's your bedroom window! Do you remember when we had "The Pirate Club"? We used to have little books where we jotted down notes and ideas, and I think you once belonged to a "Pony Club", (not a real one), with other girls from Ince, although I wasn't "in" on that; it was girls from Rose Bridge. WE used to have a "special knock" which we used at each other's door so we'd know who was knocking.....do you recall it? I do!

Comment by: josie on 6th May 2012 at 23:42

irene what a lovely photo keep em comming i love them and those names ring a bell with me ?

Comment by: Stephen on 7th May 2012 at 13:26

Joyce was in my class at Ince Central. These photo's bring back so many memories, thanks for posting them Irene

Comment by: christine on 7th May 2012 at 19:05

mary was the house to the right of yours joe harts house. i can remember takin my dads bets there as joe used to collect bets.

Comment by: bill g on 8th May 2012 at 12:30

Irene, didn't Sandra Moorcroft live in the shop at the corner of Ince Green Lane and George St? Joyce must have got a paasport to stray that far from home; she lived off Belle Green Lane in Queensway. Last saw her on a train in 1974 when she heading off from Uni to an International Socialists meeting in Leicester I remember wondering if she was going to be Ince's answer to Rosa Luxemburg!

Comment by: irene roberts on 8th May 2012 at 13:04

Yes Bill, Sandra Moorcroft's parents ran the "Corner Shop" as we called it, and Joyce Gambles did live where you say. She didn't normally play in our backs; I only really knew her from school. Perhaps she was friends with one of the other girls and had been invited to play.

Comment by: Mary Roberts nee Shaw on 11th May 2012 at 17:19

yes christine it is joe hart's i think quite a few people went in their house with bets

Comment by: Mary Roberts nee Shaw on 15th May 2012 at 14:02

do you like our pauline's pose (rite poser) she still does that today,can you see frank grimshaw's bedroom window? he lived next door to us

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