Photo-a-Day  (Friday, 17th November, 2023)

Not to mention the most famous poet of them all ,… Percy Byshe Brocket .

My granddaughter Edie used to have a little Sunday job there when she was preparing for her GCSEs at school and we went for breakfast one Sunday morning; it was lovely.

That’s quite a witty name for the corner shop. Perhaps that’s where the would be WW Poets hang out. I could see Poet, Dtease and
‘ E’ in there swapping rhymes…
Also the shops look like they have been ordinary houses, I think we will see more corner shops springing up in the future…mark my words!

Cast your mind back 100 years and this was fields and footpaths. This stretch of road from Kenyon Road to Spencer Road was constructed during 1925/26. My Father mentions it in his 1926 diary as "Standish new road" or just "the new road"-to Marylebone.

I wonder if those people who live in Shakespeare Crescent think they're better than the dwellers of Pam Ayres Court ?

If theres not a Keat's Seat anywhere in the cafe then there should be .

Wordy Wordsmiths,
Chaucer Chappies and Ten a Penny Tennysons all vying with their verses and suppin’ tay.

Nice clear and bright photograph, Brian.
An interesting name for a cafe and one which is memorable, especially when you know that particular area. I had a friend who lived, for quite a number of years, on Milton Grove and I had a friend who lived on Tennyson Drive. Also, I believe, one of my old friends bought a house in Chaucer Place after he got married.
I think, Dr. Johnson lived on Milton Grove, in the large detached house which was demolished to make way for the Trinity United Reformed Church.

True Barrie, it was part of what was known as Beggars Walk, footpaths which at one time criss-crossed the area, a part of which went along there from Mab's Cross to join with Standish Wood Lane and was a section of a Pilgrims Way or pilgrimage route to the Abbeys of Whalley. Bolton, Jervaulx and Furness. Groups of ramblers can sometimes still be seen walking the route, though I'm unsure if the footpath that led along from Cat i'th Window at Almond Brook to Pepper Lane Standish is still there with houses now having been built on the farmland.

There are a lot more poet named streets in the Poets Corner at Leigh, there is Shadwell Grove (Thomas Shadwell) which always reminded me of the Welsh poet and philosopher character Siadwel (Shadwell) played by John Sparkes who appeared in Naked Video and other comedy shows.

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I doubt some of the poets when alive could have afforded to have a drink in there, with a glass of wine costing more than a bottle

I must have been away from the motherland to long, I don’t recognise the area, can anyone enlighten me??

Thanks for the information, now I know how it got its name.
We would visit but like most of that area street parking is prohibited.
Despite most if not all properties having drives, many for two cars, the roads outside are for permit holders only to key the riffraff at bay.

I think the folk you call 'riffraff', Colin, are likely to be staff at the hospital who, despite working unsocial hours when a lack of public transport means they have to get to work by car, have to pay to park.

Britboy, this is at the top of Mesnes Road. Opposite Whitely Crescent and about 200 metres past the Brocket and 100 metres before the CherryGardens pub.

We have sausage and mash by Ogden Nash
And Christina Rossetti's home made Spaghetti ,
Where Shelley comes to fill his belly ,
Care of our our head cook Rupert Brooke .

There's lots of snacks and delicious eats
Partaken by Coleridge , Wordsworth and Keats ,
Our tasty parkin by Philip Larkin
Goes down a special treat .

Rabbie Burns gets his kilt on
To join John Milton nibbling Stilton
In our bar you just can't lose
As Ted Hughes is in charge of booze
And it don't take long to get things going
Suppin' with Byron and Wilfred Owen ,
So come on down to the Poet's Café,
And have thy self a right good laffé .

Poet

A disrespectful comment made by Colin Traynor. You don't even know the People.

Poets Corner ?

I remember that when it was an offy (off-licence) it was called 'Victoria Wines' and I suppose you could have said it was a 'posh offy' because it was in a posh area, but whatever, it was a bloody expensive off-licence.

That’s very appropriate Poet…brilliant!

My lady .

Rev. Long, Sandra, I think you both have misinterpreted the point I was trying to make which was unnecessary parking restrictions
The riffraff I was referring to are outsiders like little me! not Nurses or the residents and certainly no disrespect was intended.
I take my elderly brother for regular appointments at the Infirmary and the parking charges are excessive, that's if you can find a space without endlessly driving around!
We all pay out taxes including road tax and people park their cars and vans outside my house in Standish all day, I wouldn't have that imposed on Mesnes Road. However a compromise to 'Permit Holders Only' I think would be a maximum period of say 2 hours allowing visit the Infirmary, Poets Corner, Mesnes Park, The Brocket etc. etc.
Cordially yours and love to all, Colin.

Wonderfully explained Colin. I have the same ‘problem’ outside my house but I have learned to put up with it as there’s a Medical Centre across the way from mine. After
5 00 it’s deserted! As you say we all pay tax…I am just glad I no longer drive. I retired from Bolton Hospital and there was an uproar when it was decided all staff including Doctors, Nurses and Clerical etc had to start paying for parking in the grounds. In fact I was once clamped because the disc had fallen off the window of the car! It took quite a few phone calls from the ward to get it unclamped! The pay for the parking was taken out of our wages - whether we liked it or not! Some nurses objected and parked in nearby streets perhaps walking a mile before they got to the wards. In a job they do I don’t think they should have to pay ,,,but what can they do?

Thankyou Veronica.

When I was a little kid in the early 50's we visited my grandparents in Wordsworth Ave. I would get sent to the Shelley cafe round the corner in Mesnes Rd. for fresh baked Barm cakes and Eccles cakes. When I grew up I still visited them but this time when I went round the corner to Mesnes Rd. it was for a quick pint at the Brocket.