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Higher Ince
Higher Ince
Photo: Thomas Sutch
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Item #: 3562
Looking towards Hindley, October 1976

Comment by: peter frost on 16th October 2007 at 13:06

in remember the petrol pumps at the bike shop
i`m sure the proprietors name was atherton
petrol was 4/10p per gallon in 1965

Comment by: dave thomas on 8th February 2009 at 17:10

the shop just to the left of the bus used to be drapers peter draper was in my class at rose bridge school

Comment by: Eric Longshaw on 30th December 2009 at 23:51

The shop to the left of the bus was Woodcocks Toffee shop as I remember when I lived in Ince Hall, I have heard of the Drapers shop but the only one I recall was nearer to Ince Bar opposite the bottom of Careless Lane, I used to deliver their shop order for them from Cheetham and Hiltons Grocers round about 1967/8.

Comment by: kam on 25th October 2010 at 17:47

Re... petrol pumps, proprietors were named atherton, shop was known locally as Riahs, they sold bicycle tyres, they were always on top shelf wrapped in yellow celaphane paper, the shop smelt of oil, petrol, rubber, all rolled into one, magic, they should bottle it

Comment by: Pat Sharpe Nee Woodcock on 7th July 2011 at 11:50

the shop on the corner was owen by Drapers before we bought it in around 67 an elderly lady lived in the house on the right then laylands wallpaper then pars grates going to crooks grocarys which dad bought and turned in to a bakary

Comment by: margaret lewis on 23rd November 2011 at 21:05

ria was my dads aunt, her name was gibson before she married.my dad lived in pickup st then later in west st,he moved to hindley after he married my mother.

Comment by: jim12 on 29th June 2014 at 15:35

iremember drapers shop as just to the left of the bus i sat next to peter draper at school

Comment by: Linma on 22nd October 2019 at 06:26

By gum that's a mucky bus.

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