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Crawford Terrace was down the arched entry .
The boarded up shops were at one time Suttons Shoe Repair Shop and Sineys Barbers . The other side of the arch was Hepworth's Chemist further round the corner was Reg Suttons Gents Shop.

Walked up and down cobbled Crawford Terrace many times I had a friend who lived off Greenough St. The shop I remember most besides the chemist
( where I bought loads of stuff )was Blinkhorn’s cloggers. I think it was the one on the end next to the arch. It was creepy as the clogger came up through a trap door in the floor!

Is this the top of Greenhough Street, the grassed land next to the Balcarres pub?

Yes it is Rich, There was also Sandersons bakery, two sisters owned it.They were friends of my mother.

Edna.Thank you for remembering Elsie & Annie(Cissie) Snderson
Cissie taught at St George's School but helped out in th shop
They were always most kind to me as a boy.What a treat their broken biscuits were in the days of rationing The Suttons & the Sineys I also knew and the toffee man next door to the fish & chip shop at the entry to Jackson's Square

Veronica, I seem to remember the cloggers being Bolton's. I I remember the elderly man who ran it always being bad tempered and, as a young lad, going into the shop and no-one in attendance until, as you say, this grumpy man coming up through a flap in the floor. Always unnerved me if I was the only one in the shop.

What a fascinating photo! I love pics of old Scholes even though I didn't know it very well. It seems to have been such a close-knit community. I do remember Reg Sutton's as my much-older brothers used to get clothes from there and you could pay weekly for a suit or a jacket. A man who we called "the clubman" used to call on Saturdays for the money. A lot of people relied on that and on "provident cheques" which could only be exchanged at certain shops. It was just a way of life then, and the only way a lot of people could afford new clothes.

Yes Donald, your right they were both very kind.Especially with those broken biscuits.Thinking back to those days, it seems another lifetime since then.

When you went down the entry there was houses on the right side, I remember A lad always in a wheelchair sat outside

Veronica, you are younger than I am but I seem to remember the cloggers being called Bolton's. I also remember, as a young lad, always being unnerved when I went into the shop and there were no other customers in ,the always bad tempered old man coming up through the hatch in the floor. I also remember hated being ordered to get my hair cut on my way home from St George's school at Sineys barbers because , no matter how long you had been waiting as a kid, every adult who came in after you did got their hair cut before I did.

You could be right DerekB it was my dad who called the cloggers Blinkhorns! He did have a daft sense of humour though. I always had to go there with his clogs… and not Polly Do-outs! I don’t know why.. sometimes I did because I liked watching Polly mend the clogs, she always had the nails in between her teeth… and you could read comics and not be scared of anybody coming up through a trap door in the floor!
As for my dad, he used to say “ go to Blinkhorn’s he blinks his eyes and blows his
horn”. I believed everything he said.!!!!***

The clogger was the profoundly deaf Methuselah Sutton father to Reg & Harry

Can remember as a child walking from Manchester Road,Ince up Birkett Bank to Scholes and onto Wigan with my Aunty,clear memories of the chemists' shop,with the large bottle sign outside at the top of Greenough Street Scholes was jam-packed with shops,pubs and houses.x

There was a Blinkhorn's Chippy In Ince Green Lane, Veronica....I wonder if it was the same family? xx

Perhaps he was related Irene. You couldn’t make a name up like Blinkhorn. There can’t be many of them about… ;o))

Blinkhorn is a good old Scholes name.

IN my young days Alice Blinkhorn lived in Linney Street

The chippy in Ince Green Lane was Annie Blinkhorn's and she had a sister who lived was in the business with her, (Florrie I think but not sure). They were probably related to the Scholes Blinkhorns as it is an unusual name and families in business seemed to have shops of various kinds.

Frank blinkhorn lived in scholes

So many Blinkhorn’s in Scholes but they didn’t mend clogs..

This is interesting in 1891 there were 318 Blinkhorn families living in Lancashire, though it doesn't say where exactly: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=blinkhorn

From the 1881 directory on this site:

Blinkhorn John, clogger, 149 Scholes

THANKS Ang my dad wasn’t telling porkies then ! (even if it wasn’t in the shop on the photo). His name must have lived on then even into the fifties. He always wore his clogs to
work until he retired in 1986. He worked at the Gasworks from coming out of the Army from 1946.

The Sutton's shop was on the even numbered side of Scholes

The number cited for Blinkhorn's was on the opposite side, lower down, between Vauxhall Road & Scholefield Lane I suppose

We lived in John St, the road to Scholes was via Vauxhall Rd. Scholes itself was a shopping centre that couldn’t be beaten. Never will be to my mind. Imagine a glass roof overhead ….that WOULD have been a ‘grand’ arcade. No shortage of shops then, everything you could possibly think of you would find in Scholes.

Veronica,my son in-laws, father came from John St in scholes, there family's name was Daniel's maybe you now them.

We lived at the top end of the street Owd Viewer. I can’t remember the name but I’m sure my dad would have known them, he was born in John St as was his mother in the 1870’s. A lot of names stick in my mind such as Penmans, Egans, McNicholas’s, Sheridans, Boylans Carney’s too numerous to mention. It was a long street.