The Humpty Dumpty in Goose Green

With regards to Dougie's posting in the Poems topic, in which he has posted a couple of poems about old Goose Green, in which the 'Humpty Dumpty' is mentioned.

Poems????

My mother was born and bred in Goose Green and she used to mention the 'Humpty Dumpty' so of course I know what the 'Humpty Dumpty' was, but does anybody else on here know what the 'Humpty Dumpty' was ?

Please Sir I know and don't come from Goose Green

Tommy, Looks like no one comes on here from Goose Green or they don't know so let them find out for them self , I think the new road by the old vinegar works is named after the brook in the poem

It certainly is Dougie 'Smiffy Brook Road'

Hiya Dougie, I am almost a goose wazer , alas i too have not heard this saying ,so do i take it what our friend T.T.S. has written is the answer??

I will give yoo a cloo ...

The Humpty Dumpty was on Little Lane

Well you are not very historically minded on here are you

Yoo don't know what the Humpty Dumpty was

Nay Nay Tommy off course i know of "Humpty Dumty " sat on a wall ,well? i used to walk little lane every bloody morning goin to scooooo! Tommy!

Golden Bear

When you wuz goin to skoooo, t'Humpty Dumpty was long gone

TOMMY ,
1953.

Golden Bear

Well if you know what Thumpty Dumpty was, then say what it was

- There was also the Yo Yo Tommy that people may not know of that's gone now

Dougie, there were two slag heaps, one near to Little Lane

This one


I climbed up that one loads of times and then there was another slag heap near to Lady Lane at Goose Green.

This one


So which one was the Yo Yo ?

As I've said I don't come from that area, all I know it was the biggest of the two slag heaps, so that would have been my reply if asked (Sorry)

I did ask you and there is no need to apologise

Well very good of you Tommy now i know what your talking about at last ,all over those photos was my playground area, as for yu asking about which tip is which?
The first one Tommy is ,was the YOYO simple really ( like you told me) as for the other other one ont tuther side of it was a path which started on Warrinton rd, up past tip further up on the left was "DON WOOD " carry on and you would come out on winstanley rd just before that was BAXTER PIT, UP Winstanley rd tward tharbour ( windy harbour) past "BIG ROUND STONE"
THOSE PHOTO'S ARE bloody brilliant where did you get um from TOM?
The bottom photo in the far like a ice cream cornet was the washery the memories they have brought back to me have had me in rapture's thank's maty!

You couldn't have asked for a better playground for us kids. A lot better and a lot cheaper than Alton Towers

ADMIN:
You are bang on matey i cannot work out the hours spent on those pit rooks, then there was the " DARK TUNNEL" WAS ALREET IN THEAR TEKIN GIRLS IN COS THEY WERE SCARED OF DARK THEY HELD ONTO YOU BLOOMIN GREAT, oh happy day's.

But WHERE was Thumpty Dumpty

The place my grandad called the Humpty Dumpty was around 1 mile south of Little Lane. We used to collect chrome plated wood screws from the wood shavings that had been tipped there.

We used to climb over a high wall and go into an empty house for a mooch around. We called it the 'Chinese House. I think at one time the manager lived there?? If memory serves me right it was by the path that led to Winstanley/Pony Dick but there were no houses then, only fields and a farm with a duck pond.

Following on from my earlier post. The place my grandfather called the Humpty Dumpty was close to the junction of what was the mineral railway line to Pemberton collieries and what is now Worthington Way. Today it would be the southern end of Sainsbury's store.

Tumpty Dumpty

The present day railway bridge on Little Lane used to be a hump backed bridge and then a little way down from that bridge, there was another hump back bridge, over another railway line, which incidently was the line which went from the sidings at Pemberton Station, under Little Lane across the field and under the present day railway line and then across to and over Victoria Street and then it ran at the back of Mitchell Street and then over Yoonion Bridge at Newtown and along through what is Worsley Hall and Norley Hall now and on to a number of quarries in the Kitt Green area.

It was called the Humpty Dumpty, because kids on push bikes and bigger kids on motorbikes, would speed down from the top hump back bridge and then bend round and go over the second hump back bridge and the fact that the top bridge was higher up than the bottom one, created through gravity a roller coaster effect, which apparently was a lot of fun.

I bet a few of them came a cropper and fell off though.

Very well explained Tommy didn't know all that , ? do you believe I knew of the two Humpback bridges in Little Lane

dougie

I don't know it you did or you didn't

Proof Tommy,

To quote (-------)Part of my family came from Goose Green and they used to refer to the Humpty Dumpty as being two hump back railway bridges on Little Lane, about where the entrance to the Gypo site is now and these bridges were so close together that going over them at speed, whether in a car or on a bike was like being on a big dipper and when you say the Yo Yo, do you mean the slag heap which was nearest to Little Lane

Hello TTS/Dougie,
I have a wee tale to tell you both about "dumpty humpty"
Dougie you will know this a bit better than TOMMY.TS. remember our Wilf who died a couple or so years ago , well i cannot tell the number of friendly arguments he and i had.
He knew exactly where you both are talking about ,and i being a big head/know it all , used to say WILF your talking tripe /out ya bum etc you get my drift , well since you or Tommy brought this up i drove and parked up at top of new rd past where vinegar works ( forgot its name) well started walking around and guess what??
the bridge that Toommy's mentioned is still there that is the buttress's ,so can you both imagine how i feel/felt especially or more so for our kid Wilf.
It was sort of good in a funny way for it got me remembering about quite a lot ,more especially he was bang on.

Anyroad up i would just like to thank you both from my heart for bringing up this thread thanks guy's look forward future tales of dumpty dick or whatever bye and have a nice day.

Firstly

Dougie and Golden Bear have your two been smookin wacky backy ...

Golden Bear

That bridge you are on about which is still there.

This one


But this is NOT one of the two Tumpty Humpty bridges and about five years ago I nearly broke my leg clambering over that bridge, because my said leg went down a gap in that bridge and it was only the fact that I was wearing proper boots, which stopped me leg or should I say me ankle from twisting and being injured

Tommy.ts.: Yes that is the one i was mentioning about what our Wilf used to argue with me. So explain ( waky baky)
What you on about is it not us all on BACKY????Tommy??? Hey there Dougie are you getting this ?????

Tommy, I too would like to know why you say about me being on (wacky backy) as it was you that asked two questions on here and I knew an answer to both,

(Q) I know what the 'Humpty Dumpty' was, but does anybody else on here know what the 'Humpty Dumpty' was ?
(A) Please Sir, I know and don't come from Goose Green

(Q) There was also the Yo Yo Tommy, that people may not know of that's gone now

(Q) So which one was the Yo Yo Dougie ?

(A) As I've said I don't come from that area, all I know it was the biggest of the two slag heaps, so that would have been my reply if asked (Sorry)

Tommy I don't know your age or if you come from Goose Green but, I worked at "Reeds" for 40 years from 1959 so I got to know a lot of people that lived at Goose Green. that's where I met Ernie & Bert Melling also worked with Mick Connor you must know him live next to the Bull Hotel in the dip Smiffy Brock was in his front garden

Duggie

It was the Bulls Head actually

the bridge in the above picture crossed the pemberton colliery line to just below bryn station the lnwr railway outlet to liverpool for the coal from pemberton colliery PASSING THRO MARUS BRIDGE INFANTS SCHOOL LAND..the other rail line from pemb colliery was the L and Y rail link.

Almost.

The Pemberton Branch of the Lancashire Union Line, was built to AVOID Liverpool, and escape the exploitative monopoly price the port was levying on shipping coal. The original line, as distinct from the passenger service that we know today, made a junction with existing lines at Gerrard's Bridge, allowing coal trains to progress to the coal wharfs at Widnes which were owned by the railway company, and allowed them to pitch for the business by severely undercutting Liverpool's tolls.