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friends mum is in her 80s but don't think she worked there in the 50s . i can remember her always there helping out gave up a lot of her free time .

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Atherton Hall, I can vaguely remember it, it had steps to go into it. The lady who run the Sunday School was a Mrs Burns. She always wore a hat.

I cant remember Marriots. That area was demolished apart from the block of houses on Claughton Road opposite the fire station on triangle. I grew up in one of them. I remember the 2 men who owned the corner shop. Jim and Ben? One of them was an insurance agent and moved up to Thingwall.

The block was knocked down about 1976/7.

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i to grew up in that block of houses on the triangle opposite the fire station .the fire station was not there when i lived there it was a shop called Hollands I lived in 263 claughton rd
some of the familys i remember were
Whites Hopkins Makays Whitleys Osullivans &Jones
i used to deliver papers for the corner shop in the 50s
Do you know any of theses people

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Hi George

Yes I do. It was my gran who lived at 261 Claughton Road. Mrs McKay.

I know some of the people from the block and still see some of your family then. I wont put the names on here.

Small world. ;-)


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my partner knows the whites one of the boys was his mate at school he's now a farmer think hollands shop was red and cream if i am right never seemed much in there .doyou remember the big sandstone house on claughton road think a family called roberts lived there. anyone remember the echo bar top of exmouth st it sold milkshakes

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I do remember the big stone house the women was called Peggy
Roberts she was a case i think her husband was called cowboy
Its funny you mention the big stone houses, i was on
a cruise earlier this year in the Med i met a woman in Athens
who lived in the house next to the Roberts it was on the corner of Glaughton rd& Exmouth st her name used to be Bennet, she is married to my sisters husbands cousin my sisters are called
Lily &Beryl you may know them in my day the echo bar was called
the rondevous i remember your nan and Beryl well its great to
dig up good memories

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Just wanted to add my pennies worth......I lived on Sun Street until we were forced to move due to the regeneration....I loved it there, we could see right down Hilton Street to Conway Street from our house.
The shops on either end were Portburys (Bentinck Street end) and Richmonds (Craven Street end).....both good sweet/grocery shops although Portbury's was alot more old fashioned than Richmonds.
Good old days !! smile

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Can anyone remember the shops in Exmouth st in the 50s,on the left going down stan the butchers ,bryants sweets roberts tool shop
o-kells clothes shop, candlish green growsers &an opticians
on the right was mrs franks comics &books rushworths junk shop
a growsers shop ,a milk bar & a bike shop , thats all i can remember even though i delivered papers to them from the corner shop

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my partners mum got all her the meat from stan the butcher
the milk bar was called the echo bar a lady called jean heart worked there think that was her name
kents book shop was on the right hand side
rodgers was the bike shop
there was also a motor bike shop on the left hand side called beretons or something like

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at the bottom of exmouth st was pawn brokers think it was called bains or some thing like

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Bentley's pawn brokers.


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You are correct the pawn shop on the corner of exmouth st & gladstone st was called Baines I have taken many a suit in there for women on the block ,in on monday out on friday so the old fella could out for a pint at the weekend
The women did not want to be seen going in the pawn shop they were
to proud i got a few pennies each time

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Aah Richmonds ...

the only shop in the area were you could still buy things in singles 2 eggs five rashers of bacon and 4 sausages.
My friends the Grettons used to live halfway down Hilton street and we all went to cole st then on to hamilton street schools.
I seem to remember when they built the fire station, Atherton Hall moved to a small purpose built building down the siding between the ambulance wash part and the new estate (just behind were the irish pub is now on exmouth street) I only remember this as i was thrown out of sunday school for allegedly smashing a window on it with a football and not owning up... it wasnt me honest..

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my partner went to school with one of the grettons but he lived with nan .

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Does anybody remember Bryants sweet shop in Exmouth st
they used to make sweets on the premises They used to load the
vans in back Exmouth st if you knew soneone who worked there you were ok for a few frebees it was even better if they left the van unattened with the back doors open ?

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